340 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819. N. 83° W. The wind then fell and veered to 
NovTio. S.S.E.,but towards evening freshened from S.E. 
and S.E.b.S. ; by eight o’clock we steered a 
li. S.W. course, and passed the islands of Savu 
and Benjoar ; the breeze then freshening veered 
round to the eastward, and brought on heavy 
rain with much thunder and lightning. 
After passing the meridian of Sandelwood 
Island, the wind varied between north and south 
12 — 14. by way of east, often suddenly changing eight 
or ten, and sometimes thirteen points of the 
compass at once. 
15. On the 15th we were, at noon, in latitude 
15° 14' 7", and longitude 1 15° 2', when the wind 
changed to W.N.W. and cleared up the wea- 
ther: it then gradually veered round by S.W. and 
S.S.W. to the south-east trade, 
si. At noon on the 21st we had reached the lati- 
tude assigned to the Tryal Rocks by the Dutch 
sloop, viz., 19° 32' 30" ; our longitude was 108° 
8' 36". Other accounts place these rocks in 
20° 50';. we therefore stood on with caution, for 
the wind and the currents to the N.W. were too 
strong for us to lie to with safety for the night. 
22. At two a.m. being in latitude 20° 41' 14" 
and longitude 107° IT 36" we sounded without 
success with ninety fathoms of line, and at four 
o’clock, having ran seven miles on a S.W.b.S. 
