NEAR JAVA. 1751, i6 3 



We faw Lucipara before us. It was a very 

 fliady ifle, like all the ifles hereabouts which 

 have thick forefts : it is thought that this ifle 

 had its own inhabitants. Our ihip required 

 at -leaft eighteen feet depth of water before^ 

 and nineteen and a half behind ; for which 

 realbn we always fent cur boat and floop 

 before us, as foon as we had but five fathoms 

 depth : in fome places we. had fcarce four 

 fathoms depth : thus we failed here according 

 to the depth, and by the direction of our lead, 

 and not according to the courfe, which was the 

 caufe that we did not approach Summatra 

 nearer than at five fathoms depth ; nor did 

 we venture to keep further off than at fever* 

 fathoms depths 



The ifle of Su?n?natra p whlch was continually 

 on our left, and to which we failed fo near, 

 was low in this place, and covered with trees, 

 which flood very clofe, whofe ftems were 

 without branches, and all of a height; and 

 for that reafon, the forefl looked like a cut 



yellow hue, by a kind of Byjfus or Hair-weed, with which 

 it is then filled : and from thence even the lea is faid to be 

 in bio/Tom, when its furface is tinged with a preternatural 

 colour. F. 



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