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1780. ing out-run our reckoning from the effect of fome current, 

 ^ January. ^ ^^ were clofe upon Pulo Aor, in latitude 2 46' North, longi- 

 tude 104 37' Eaft, before we were well aware of it, which 

 obliged us to haul the wind to the Eaft South Eaft. We 

 kept this courfe till midnight, and then bore away South 

 South Eaft for the Straits of Banca. 



February. On the i ft of February, at noon, our latitude, by obferva- 

 tion, was i° 20' North, and the longitude, deduced from a 

 great number of lunar observations taken in the courfe of 

 the preceding twelve hours, 105 Eaft. At the fame time, 

 the longitude, by Mr. Bayly's time-keeper corrected, was 

 105 15' Eaft. We now fleered South by Eaft; and, at fun-fet, 

 having fine clear weather, faw Pulo Panjang; the body, of 

 the ifland bearing Weft North Weft, and the fmall iflands, 

 lying on the South Eaft of it, Weft half South, feven leagues 

 diftant. Our latitude, at this time, was o° 53' North. 



WcJnef. z. On the 2d, at eight in the morning, we tried for found- 

 ings, continuing to do the fame every hour, till we had 

 palled the Straits of Sunda, and found the bottom with 

 twenty-three fathoms of line. At noon, being in latitude, 

 by obfervation, o° 22' South, longitude 105 14' Eaft, and our 

 foundings twenty fathoms, we came in light of the little 

 iflands called Dominis, which lie off the Eaftern part of 

 Lingen ; and which bore from North 62° Weft, to North, 8o° 

 Weft, five leagues diftant. At this time we palled a great 

 deal of wood, drifting on the fea ; and, at one o'clock, we 

 faw Pulo Taya, bearing South Weft by Weft, diftant feven 

 leagues. It is a fmall high ifland, with two round peaks, 

 and two detached rocks lyingoff.it to the Northward. When 

 abrcaft of this iiland, we had foundings of fifteen fathoms. 

 During this and the preceding day, we faw great quantities 



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