Coepang Bay.] TERRA AUSTRALIS. 
From the first observation on the 1 ith p. m., the longitude 
given with the rate from Wreck Reef, was 123 9 48' 34", or 12' 4$" 
too far east ; but on using a rate equally accelerated from that found 
at Wreck Reef to this at Coepang, the time keeper will differ 
only o' 40" to the east, which is the presumable amount of its irre- 
gularities between Oct. 6 at noon and Nov. 11 p. m., or in 36,2 days. 
The longitudes of my track from Wreck Reef to Timor have been 
corrected agreeably to the accelerated rate, with the further allow- 
ance of a part of the supplemental error o' 40", proportionate to the 
time of each observation; but in Torres’ Strait, the situations are 
fixed from a medium of the longitudes so obtained and of those of 
the Investigator with the corrections specified in p. 149 preceding; 
the difference between them no where exceeding ji' of longitude. 
On the evening of the 14th we sailed from Coepang, and having Monday 14. 
passed round the north end of Pulo Samow, steered south-westward 
with a fair breeze ; but the wind being light, and afterwards veering to 
S. S. W., our progress was slow. At sunset on the 16th, the island Wednes. tc 
Savu was seen to the N. W. by N., and next morning at six o’clock, Thursday^ 
the following bearings were taken. 
Savu, the highest part, - - N. 39 0 E. 
Benjoar, a round hill on it, - - N. 22 E. 
A rocky islet, distant 3 leagues, - N. 48 W. 
At noon, the rocky islet bore N. 6g° E., and its position was ascer- 
tained to be io° 49- south and 122° 49' east. A small low island is 
laid down by admiral D’Entrecasteaux, about three leagues to the 
north-west of this position, and had been previously seen by captain 
Cook in 177c; it seems possible that these may be one and the same 
island, for the situation in D’Entrecasteaux’s chart is marked doubt- 
ful; but they are both laid down in Plate XVI., and such additions 
made to what little could be distinguished of Savu and Benjoar, as 
D Entrecasteaux, Cook, Bligh, and Dalrymple could furnish. 
It was my intention on quitting Timor, if the leaky condition 
of the schooner and the north-west monsoon did not oppose it, to ; 
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1803 . 
November. 
