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at 10, 33 fathoms, same bottom ; at 10..30 it fell dalm. Came to in 32 fathoms, 
black mud, Found per log a current running N N W, 3 knot an hour. Va- 
riation of the compass by amp. 25° 33’ W, by azimuth 25° 30’ 
May 27th. At 9, alight breeze sprung up at SS W; weighed, and stood S 
FE 3 miles, and had 28 fathoms, S E b. E, 2 miles 24 fathoms, and SE 1 mile 
21 fathoms, all black mud and shells; here we observed in lat. 4° 9'S. lon. 11° 
38'37" E. Banda point Eb. N 8 or 9 miles, extremes of the land from E b. 
SiS.to Nb.W. About 6 P. M. the wind drew round to Wb.S, a fresh breeze; 
from noon we ran ona S E b. S course, shoaling gradually, with scarcely any 
variation in the bottom (chiefly ouse.) In running along shore the land is beau- 
tiful, appearing as if laid out in parks and pleasure grounds ; it is noted in the 
charts as being high ; which is certainly an error, as there has not been any part 
of it yet seen by us higher than the Lizard on our own coast. The latitude 
of Banda point by this day’s observation is about 4° 4’ S, lon. 11° 46! 2" E. 
Arrowsmith in his chart of this part of the coast, places it in lat. 4..3 S. lon. 
10..52..0, and Laurie and Whittle in 3° 53’S. and 10°30! EB. 
May 25th. The breeze of last night continued at WS W till about 6 this 
morning, when it fell calm, and we came to in 15 fathoms, ouse; found the 
current per log Nb. W 1; mile an hour. At S$ a light breeze from the S E, 
with which we weighed, but falling calm almost immediately, came to again in 
14 fathoms, ouse ; just b fore noon weighed again with a light breeze, but 
finding we lost ground came to directly im 12 fathoms, ouse, where we observed, 
in lat. 1° 21’S, lon. 12°11' KE, extremes of the land from SS E to N b. E cur- 
rent N b. W 12 mile an hour. About 2 P.M. the sea breeze came in mode- 
rate at WS W; weighed and made sail, but the ship in a most unaccountable 
manner, with all sail set and a good breeze on the quarter, refused to come 
higher than E'S E, and lay like a log on the water, while the Congo, whose tow- 
rope we had cast off, was lying up south about 3 knots; at 2..30 finding we 
were drifting bodily in shore with the current, and had decreased our depth of 
water from 12 fathoms ouse, to 9% rocky bottom, let go the stream anchor ; 
and before we could bring up got into 73 rocky bottom. We were about 6 
miles from the nearest shore, no point or known headland to set, but right 
abreast of us were some reddish cliffs; and a little to the southward of them 
two holes in the land, apparently of the same quality as the cliffs; these holes 
both in size and shape, are much like the large chalk pit on Portsdown hil!. 
