Towards C. Leeuwin.] TERRA AUSTRALIS. 231 
Sarnow, north-west point, bore - M. 48° E. isos. 
Tios, dist. 5 miles, the south extreme, - S. 60 E. Sunday 10. 
Rottee, furthest visible parts, - S. 51^° E. to 18 W. 
I he island Sauw, or Savu came in sight to the westward next morn- Monday 11. 
ing, and also a small isle called Douw or Dowa, lying off the west 
end of Rottee; at noon, when our latitude was io° 37' 22" and lon- 
gitude 123 ° 3 5 i-', 
Savu bore from the mast head, - N. 76° to 88° W. 
Rottee, furthest visible parts, - S. 84 to 45 E. 
Dowa, distant ten miles, - S. 35 to 20 E. 
We tried for soundings with 230 fathoms of line, without finding 
ground.; and it should appear that there is no bottom amongst these 
islands at any reasonable depth, unless very near the shores. 
lire wind was still light; and on the following day we had Tuesday 1*. 
rain, thunder, and lightning. Savu was seen in a clear interval 
towards evening, bearing N. 3 0 W., and another piece of land, ap- 
parently Benjoar, was perceived from the mast 'head to the N. N. W. - 
this was the last sight we had of these islands, for the breeze fresh- 
ened up fiom the eastward, and at noon next day our latitude was Wednea. is. 
12° 20' south. 
Having been disappointed in procuring salt provisions and the 
means of sending an officer to the Admiralty from Coepang, I had 
necessarily given up the project of going back to the north coast of 
I crra Austialis, but since the decay of the ship did not appear to 
have advanced so rapidly as was expected, I judged there would not 
be much hazard in taking this opportunity of executing the article of 
my instructions, which directed me “ to examine as particularly as 
“ circumstances would allow, the bank which extends itself from the 
“ Trial Rocks towards Timor.” Upon what authority the bank was (Atlas, 
thus described, I had no information ; but that it did not reach so far Plate L) 
as either limor or Rottee, was proved by our having passed the west 
end of the latter island and sounded with more than 200 fathoms 
without finding bottom. It seemed to me probable, that if such a 
