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CHAPTEE XXXV. 



VOYAGE FKOM CEEAM TO WAIGIOU. 

 (jtrifs AND im*T 1860.) 



IS my i75v^euty-fifth chapter I have dfiscrihed ray arrival 

 at Wahai, on my way to Mysol and Waigiou, islands 

 ■which belong to the Papuan district, and the account of 

 which naturally follows after that of ray visit to the main- 

 land of New Guinea. I now take tip my narrative at my 

 departure from Wahai,with the intention of carrying various 

 necessary stores to my assistant, Mr. Allen, at Silinta, in 

 Mysol, and then continuing my journey to Waigiou. It 

 will be rememhered that I was travelMng in a small prau, 

 which I had purcliased and fitted up in Coram, and that, 

 having been deserted by my crew on the coast of Ceram, 

 I had obtained four men at Waliai, who, with my Amboy- 

 nese hunter, constituted my crew. 



Between Ceram and ilysol there are sixty milea of open 

 sea, and along this wide channel the east monsoon blows 

 Btrongly ; so that with native praus, which will not lay up 

 to the wind, it requires some care in crossing. In order to 

 give ourselves sufficient leeway, we sailed back from 

 \Yahai eastward, along the coast of Ceram, with the land- 

 breeze ; but Ln tlio morning (June 18th) had not gone 

 nearly so far as I expected. My pUot, an old and expe- 

 rienced sa.Qor, named Gurulampoko, assured me there was 

 a cnrrent setting to the east^vard, and that we could easily 

 lay across to Silinta, in Mysol As we got out from the 

 land the wind increased, and Uiere was a considerable sea, 

 which miule my short little vessel plunge aiul roll about 

 violently. By sunset we had not got halfway across, but 

 could see Mysol tUstinctly, All night we went along un- 

 easily, and at daybreak, on looking out anxiously, I found 

 that we had falhui much to the westward during the night, 

 owing, no doubt, to the pilot being sleepy and not keeping 

 the boat sufficiently close to the wind. We could see the 



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