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fionally, and warning them with fait water. On the nth they faw 

 land, and pufhed their boat into a bay, all agreeing that they had better 

 truft to the chance of being well received on more, than to that of pe- 

 rifhing in the courfe of a day or two more at fea. There they pro- 

 cured fome water and a roafted yam from the natives, who alfo gave 

 them to underftand that Timor was to the fouthward of them. Not 

 thinking themfelves quite fo fafe here as they would be at Coupang, 

 they again embarked. They foon after found a proa in chace of them, 

 which they eluded by (landing with their boat over a reef that the 

 proa would not encounter. On the morning of the 13th they faw a 

 point of land a-head, which, with the wind as it then was, they could 

 not weather. They therefore ran into a fmall bay, where the natives 

 received them, calling out " Bligh ! Bligh !" Here they landed, were 

 hofpitably received, and providentially faved from the horror of perifli- 

 ing by famine. 



This place was called by the natives Sarrett, and was diftinct from 

 Timor Land, which was the firft place they refreflied at. They were 

 alfo informed, that there was another fmall ifland to the northward, 

 called by them Fardatta ; but which in fome charts was named Tana- 

 bor. They alfo underftood that a proa came yearly from Banda to 

 trade at Tanabor, and that her arrival was expected in the courfe of 

 feven or eight months. They were much gratified with this informa- 

 tion, and foon found that they had fallen into the hands of a hofpitable 

 and humane race of people. On the 25th of July Mr. Carter's wound 

 was entirely healed, after having had thirteen pieces of the fractured 

 fkull taken out. But this gentleman was fated not long to furvive his 

 fufFerings. He remained in perfect health until the 17th of November, 

 when he caught a fever, of which he died on the 10th of December, 

 much regretted by his two friends (for adverfity makes friends of thofe 

 who, perhaps, in other fituations would never have (haken hands). 



The two furvivors waited in anxious expectation for the arrival of 

 the annual trading proa from Banda. To their great joy fhe came on 

 the 1 2th of March 1794; they failed for Banda on the 10th of April, 



and 



