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and giving me a couple of fowls, a bottle of oil, and some 

 pumpkins. As the weather was still very uncertain, I got 

 four extra men to accompany me to Teniate, for which place 

 we started on the afternoon of the 20th. 



We had to keep rowing all night, the land breezes being 

 too weak to enable us to sail against the current. During 

 the afternoon of the 21st we had an hour's fair wind, which 

 soon changed into a heavy squall with rain, and my clumsy 

 men let the mainsail get taken aback and nearly upset us, 

 tearing the sail, and, what was worse, losing an hour's fair 

 wind. The night was calm, and we made little progress. 



On the 22d we had light head-winds. A little before noon 

 we passed, with the assistance of our oars, the Pa9ien9ia 

 Straits, the narrowest part of the channel between Batchian 

 and Gilolo. These were well named by the early Portuguese 

 navigators, as the currents are very strong, and there are so 

 many eddies, that even with a fair wund vessels are often quite 

 unable to pass through them. In the afternoon a strong north 

 wind (dead ahead) obliged us to anchor twice. At night it 

 was calm, and we crept along slowly with our oars. 



On the 23d Ave still had the wind ahead, or calms. We 

 then crossed over again to the main-land of Gilolo by the ad- 

 vice of our Gani men, who knew the coast well. Just as we 

 got across we had another northerly squall with rain, and had 

 to anchor on the edge of a coral reef for the night. I called 

 up my men about three on the morning of the 24th, but there 

 was no wind to help us, and we roAved along sloAvly. At 

 daybreak there was a fair breeze from the south, but it lasted 

 only an hour. All the rest of the day we had nothing but 

 calms, light winds ahead, and squalls, and made very little 

 progress. 



On the 25th we drifted out to the middle of the channel, 

 but made no progress onward. In the afternoon we sailed 

 and rowed to the south end of Kaioa, and by midnight 

 reached the village. I determined to stay here a few days to 

 rest and recruit, and in hopes of getting better weather. I 

 bought some onions and other vegetables, and plenty of eggs, 

 and my men baked fresh sago cakes. I went daily to my 

 old hunting-ground in search of insects, but with very poor 

 success. It Avas now wet, squally weather, and there appear- 



