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expofed to the north eatl wind. We got clear 

 of this and other inconveniences when we 

 failed through the paffage at Bocca Tigris, the 

 4th of January 1752. We were provided 

 with a Chinefe pafs-port and pilot, and accom- 

 panied by many white porpoifes ; and, on the 

 6th, we quite left the Chinefe fhore. On the 

 19th of this month we were fo happy as to 

 reach the place which the Englijh call New- 

 bay, which is fituated on the fouth-weft of 

 Java : there we were to take in a flore of the 

 good water of that place. Half a quarter of 

 a Swedijh mile from the fhore is a little ifland, 

 called Cantaye in the French charts, which I 

 propofed to myfelf to vifit in our return : but, 

 unluckily, the only time that I was al- 

 lowed to go on fhore, the water was fo high 

 that I was forced to wade up to my middle ; 

 and for all my trouble got nothing but a great 

 piece of a millepora. I was therefore obliged 

 to content myfelf with fitting and obferving 

 the Javanefe, who are Mahometans ; they 

 fpeak the Malaic language, are of a tawny 

 complexion, and let their hair grow about as 

 low as their moulders, and tie it with baft of 

 trees. They chew betle in plenty, and are 

 ready to run a mile§for a little piece of opium. 

 Their boats have large fails, and on the lar- 

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