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attacked by thcdyfentcry for feveral dr.ys; and 

 neverchelefs, we were obliged to wade in:o the 

 water up to the waifl, to reach the boat, which 

 greatly aggravated our diforder. 



In the courfe of this day, the natives had 

 procured us rice, maize, fugar-canes, yams, 

 fowls, eggs, ducks and goats. Hardware had 

 been offered them in exchange for thefe rcfrcfli- 

 ments, but they had preferred the money w^hich 

 is current in the Moluccas, and particularly 

 the fniall coin waflied with filver, which they 

 call koiipan peray and which the Dutch bring 

 from Europe. 



At the full and change days, it is high water 

 about one o'clock in the afternoon ; in the bay 

 where we lay, the perpendicular rife of the tide 

 was two meters. 



The place where we anchored, Vvas in lati- 

 tude 5 27' 18" fouth, and longitude 120=' 27' 

 caft. 



On the afternoon of the 9th of Oclober vvc 

 weighed and made fail, in order to get out of 

 the Strait of Bouton, and we were not long be- 

 fore we reached the open fea. 



On the nth, in the morning, we croffcd the 

 Strait of Salaver. A freat number of natives 

 were icattered about the fhore, where their ca- 

 noes were lying; others were making fail to- 

 wards Celebes. 



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