3 t6 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [May, 



until the {hip mould reach the latitude of 8° fouth ; and then fhape a 

 eourfe to crofs the equator in i6o° eaft ; after which the mailer fhould 

 fleer to the N. W. by N. or N. N.W. until in the latitude of 5* 20 or 

 5 0 30' north ; in which latitude Mr, Raven would run down his lon- 

 gitude, and pais the fouth end of Mindanao, and between that illand 

 and Bafcelan ; and thence through the {traits of Banguey into the 

 China fea. In running this paflage, it would be neceflary to pay at- 

 tention to Mr. Dairy tuple's charts of thofe iflands, &c. which Mr. 

 Raven found very accurate. 



* c If leaving Port Jackfon any time between the beginning of March 

 and the ift of September, Mr. Raven would prefer pafling through a 

 Arait in the longitude of I56 0 1 o' E. or thereabouts ; and from the 

 latitude of 7 0 6' E. to 6° 42' S. which divides fome part of the iflands 

 of the New Georgia of Captain Shortland ; thence through St. George's 

 channel to the northward of New Guinea, through Dampier's {trait, 

 down Pitt's Paflage, to the fouthward of Boutton, and through the 

 ftraits of Salayer, into the Banda of Amboyna fea." 



Mr. Raven furnifhed thefe obfervadons in the hope that they might 

 benefit the fettlement of Port Jackfon, by proving ufeful to the com- 

 manders of any mips which the governor might have occafion to fend 

 into thofe Teas on the fervice of the colony. 



Previous to the departure of Mr. Hogan's {hip for India, that gen- 

 tleman had requefted that an examination might be taken as to the cir- 

 cumftances of his conduct, toward the convi&s and others on board his 

 £hip during their paflage from Ireland. This was accordingly done ; 

 when it appeared, that Mr, Hogan, but for the fortunate and timely 

 difcovery of it, would with his mip have fallen a facrifice to as daring 

 and alarming a confpiracy as, perhaps, ever had been entered into by 

 a fet of defperate wretches on board of any {hip ; and that nothing 

 was left him, to fave himfelf from the danger of a fimilar circumftance 

 occurring during the voyage, but to inflicT immediate punifhment on 

 the perfons who were concerned in it. 



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