The Preface. 
ter for the Publick Service, will, 
1 hope, be candidly receiv’d ; and 
no Difficulties Ihall difcourage me 
from endeavouring to promote the 
fame End, whenever I have an op-, 
portunity put into my Hands. 
May 1 8. in our return, w^e ar- 
rived again at Tymor. June 'll 
we paft by part of the Ifland Java. 
July 4, we anchored in Batavia- 
Road ; and 1 went afhore, vifited 
the Butch General, and defired the 
Privilege of buying Provifions that 
I wanted ; which was granted me. 
In this Road we lay till the 1 7 th 
of Ottober following ; when, hav- 
ing fitted the Ship, recruited my 
Self with Provifions, filled all my 
Water, and the Seafon of the year 
for. returning towards Europe being 
come I fet Sail from Batavia.^ and 
on the 1 9th of December made the 
Cape of Good Hope; whence de- 
parting 1 1, we made the Ifland 
of Santa Hellena on the i ff ; 
and February the lift, the Ifland 
a of 
