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breeze fprang up from the fouth-eaft; we im- 

 mediately weighed anchor, and by eleven o'clock 

 we were already at the outlet of the roadftead, 

 the weft point of which bore weft 6 15' north, 

 and the eaft point eaft 6 15' fouth : we were at 

 the diftance of two kilometers from the latter. 



By the obfervations which were made at noon, 

 we found that the weft point of Amboyna was in 

 the latitude of 3 46' 54" fouth, and longitude 

 of 1 2 5*5 3' 48" eaft. 



The wind continuing all day at fouth-eaft, we 

 fcept clofe-hauled on the larboard tack. 



One of the boys of the large Dutch Eaft-In- 

 dia Company's fhip that had failed a fhort time 

 before for Batavia, had concealed himfelf on 

 board of the Recherche, and on the 15th he made 

 his appearance on deck, almoft at the lame mo- 

 ment that the Captain of the Efperance informed 

 the Admiral, that he had juft found in his fhip 

 fix runaways from Amboyna, namely t three of 

 the Company's foldiers, one tailor, and two 

 black Haves. Thefe unhappy creatures tied from 

 a country, where they all, with little difiinction, 

 were groaning in flavery. 



The Admiral had given pcrmiflion to the 

 fhips' companies to take on board for thcmfelves 

 hogs and poultry ; accordingly every part of our 

 fhips was encumbered with them. They were 

 almoft all placed in the between-deeks, and they 

 3 were 



