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to the island of Timor, belonging to the Dutch. 
The distance was about four thousand miles; 
it was therefore indispensable to observe the 
most rigid economy in distributing the pro- 
visions. ‘The whole crew submitted, without 
murmuring, to the daily allowance of an ounce 
of biscuit, and the eighth part of a bottle of 
water. On the following day a storm arose, 
which so filled the boat with water, that the 
most unremitting exertions were necessary to 
prevent her foundering. By a second storm, 
accompanied with violent rain, the small re- 
maining provision of biscuit was transformed 
into a sort of paste, which now constituted their 
only food, and even of this they were hence- 
forward obliged to partake yet more sparingly, 
as the voyage proved of longer duration than 
was at first calculated. 
Thus utterly exhausted by hunger, thirst, 
fatigue, wet, the burning rays of the sun, and 
sickness arising from such complicated suffer- 
ings, the unfortunate wanderers, after a voyage 
of thirty-two days, had the indescribable joy of 
beholding the coast of New Zealand, and en- 
tering the Torres Straits. They landed on a 
