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By four o'clock in the afternoon we had 

 doubled the Ifland of Manipa, which is not 

 more than a dcmi-myriameter in extent, from 

 north to fouth : although very mountainous, it 

 appeared to us well peopled ; a great r.iany 

 canoes were coa fling along the thore. This 

 ifland is in latitude 3 21' fouth, and longitude 

 I2547' eaft. 



The Ifland of Kilang lies in latitude 3 17' 

 fouth, and longitude 125 31' eaft. 



A fea breeze, which fprang up about ten 

 o'clock in the morning of the 4th, favoured our 

 progrefs to the fouthward, and we foon faw the 

 weft coaft of Amboyna to the fouth fouth-eaft. 



Being afterwards thwarted by a foutherly wind, 

 we were under the neceffity of plying. 



On the 5th a frefh breeze from the fouth-eaft 

 deprived us of every hope of reaching the anchor- 

 age in the courfe of the day. The Situation of 

 our fcorbutic people, which was daily becoming 

 more alarming, and the number of whom was in- 

 creasing with rapidity, made us long for favour- 

 able winds: the continual rains at Carteret's Har- 

 bour had had the greateft influence on their dis- 

 order ; almoft all of them felt very acute pains in 

 the loins. 



One of the firft fymptoms Was the fudden ap- 

 pearance of whitifti tubercles, frequently of the 

 bignefs of a hen's egg f on different parts of the 



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