378 TOYAGE inOM WAIGIOU [chap, xxxvii. 



our third anchor on this unfortunate voyage. The day was 

 calm, and by noon we passed the southern point of Gilolo, 

 which had delayed us eleven days, whereas the whole 

 voyage during this monsoon should not have occupied more 

 than half that time. Having got round the point our course 

 was exactly in the opposite direction to what it had been, 

 and now, as usual, the wind changed accordingly, coming 

 from the north and north-west, — so that we still had to row 

 every mile up to the village of Gani, which we did not 

 reach till the evening of the 18th. A Bugis trader who 

 was residing there, and the Senaji, or chief, were very 

 kind ; the former assisting me with a spare anchor and a 

 cable, and making me a present of some vegetables, and 

 the latter baking fresh sago cakes for my men, and giving 

 me a couple of fowls, a bottle of oil, and some pumpkins. 

 As the weather was still very uncertain, I got four extra 

 men to accompany me to Ternate, for which place we 

 started on the afternoon of the 20th. 



We had to keep rowing all night, the land breezes being 

 too weak to enable us to sail against the current. During 

 the afternoon of the 21st we had an hour's fair wind, 

 which soon changed into a heavy squall with rain, and my 

 clumsy men let the mainsail get taken aback and nearly 

 upset us, tearing the sail, and, what was worse, losing an 

 hour's fair wind. The night was calm, and we made little 

 progress. 



