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A VOYAGE TO 
[ From Timor . 
1303. 
May, 
Thursday 5, 
Friday IS, 
Saturday 14. 
(Atlas, 
Plate 1 1 .) 
From the 27th of April we steered eight days to the S, S. W., 
mostly with- south-eastern winds; they were sometimes light, but 
occasionally fresh, and at these times the ship made live inches of 
wafer in the hour. The diarrhoea on board was gaining ground, 
notwithstanding all the attention peid to keeping the ship dry and 
well aired, and the people clean and as comfortable as possible. 
Some of the officers began to feel its attack ; and in order to relieve 
them and the people, now that we had no expectation of meeting 
danger, I directed the ship’s company to be divided into three watches; 
and put the officers to four ; giving Mr. Denis Lacy, master’s mate,, 
the charge of acting lieutenant in the fourth watch. 
On May 5. in latitude 2 6° 24/ and longitude 103° 21', the south- 
east wind died away, and a breeze sprung up from the opposite 
quarter, which veered afterwards to the S. W:, blowing fresh with 
squally, moist weather. Our course was then directed for Gape 
Leeuwin, with the wind usually a-beam ; the sea being too high for 
the ship to make good way any nearer. In this passage we were 
accompanied by several petrels, and amongst them by the albatross, 
the first of which had been seen in the latitude 23 0 
On the 13th, we had reached the .parallel of Cape Leeuwin, 
and were steering E. by S., to make it. At six in the evening, tried 
for soundings with 180 fathoms, without finding ground ; but after 
running S. 6 y° E. twenty-six miles, we had 75 fathoms, fine white 
sand ; and at daylight the land was seen, bearing N. 23 0 to 52° E. 
about eight leagues. The soundings should therefore seem not to 
extend more than ten or twelve leagues to the west, or but little 
further than the land will be visible in fine weather. 
Our latitude at noon was 34 0 43', and the land of Cape Leeu- 
win bore from N. 2 0 to 22 0 E. ; the uncorrected longitude of the time 
keepers from Timor made the cape four or five leagues to the east 
of the position before ascertained, but when corrected, the difference 
was too small to be perceptible. At six in the evening we had 40 
fathoms, coral bottom, at seven leagues from Point D’Entrecasteaux ; 
but the weather was too thick to take any bearings which might 
