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edge of the current that sets to the westward, 
down the north coast of Timor, and that be- 
tween Rottee and Savu the current is of trifling 
consequence. 
The next morning land was again indistinctly 
seen bearing E. 12° S. At ten a.m. it was 
clearly visible, as well as a peaked hill, which 
bore E.JN; We were now in a current setting 
rapidly to the westward, and soon lost a great 
portion of the ground that we had been so long 
toiling to gain. In the evening the wind veering 
to E.S.E., enabled us to steer to the southward, 
and to get out of the influence of the current. 
From this to the 31st we had made little pro- 
gress to the eastward; but in the afternoon a 
breeze set in from W.S.W., and brightened our 
prospects : our water being now nearly expended, 
no time was to be lost, and we steered for the 
Strait of Rottee, in order to pass through that 
of Samow ; but the wind was so light that, not 
being sufficiently advanced before dark, we bore 
up, and passed round the west side of Pulo 
Samow, with a breeze from S.E., which con- 
tinued during the night, and, by daylight, had 
carried us near the north-west end of the island; 
at nine a.m. the sea breeze set in from S.W. and 
West, and gradually increasing, we happily suc- 
ceeded in arriving off the town of Coepang, 
Vol. I. Z 
1819. 
Oct. 28. 
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