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A VOYAGE TO 
[From Timor. 
1803. 
April. 
Friday 8. 
(Atlas, 
Plate XVI.) 
Saturday 9. 
Sunday 10. 
CHAPTER X. 
Departure from Timor. Search made for the Trial Rocks. Anchorage 
in Goose-Island Bay. Interment of the boatswain , and sickly state 
of the ship’s company. Escape from the bay, and passage through 
Bass’s Strait. Arrival at Port Jackson. Losses in men. Survey 
and condemnation of the ship. Plans for continuing the survey ; but 
preparation finally made for returning to England. State of the 
colony at Port Jackson. 
W»B n we stretched out of Coepang Bay on the 8th of April, the 
wind was light from the westward ; in the afternoon we tacked to- 
wards Pulo Samow, hoping that a canoe seen under the land might 
have the two deserters on board ; but this not being the case, they 
were given up. At six in the evening, when we stood off, the town 
of Coepang bore S. 6o 9 E., six or seven miles, and the north point of 
Samow distant one mile, with the north-west extremity behind it, 
S. 70* W. In this situation the depth was 74, fathoms, and soon after- 
wards 130 did not reach the bottom. 
During the night the breeze vfeered to the south and eastward, 
and in the morning to north-east, and we coasted along the west 
side of Samow, four or five miles off’ without getting soundings ; it 
is woody, hilly land, but not mountainous, and toward the south end 
is quite low. A woody islet, called Tios in the charts, lies off the 
south-west point, which is the sole thing like danger on the west side 
of Samow ; but the tides run strong here, and make ripplings which 
at first alarm, from their great resemblance to breakers. 
It was evening on the 10th before we had any regular wind ; 
it then sprung up from the southward, and at six, when we made sail. 
