*64 COOK’? VOYAGE, 
noon on the 6th to noon on the 7th, and ten miles from noon 
on the 7th to noon on the 8th, by which it appeared that there 
was a current fetting to the fouthward. At funfet, we found 
the variation to be 2 W. and at the fame time, f^w an appear- 
ance of very high land bearing N. W. 
In the morning of the 10th, we faw clearly that what had 
appeared to be land the night before, was Timor. At noon, 
our latitude, by obfervation, was io° i'S. which was fifteen 
miles to the fouthward of that given by the log; our longitude, 
by obfervation, was 233 0 27' W. We fleered N. W. in order 
to obtain a more diftind view of the land in fight, till four 
o’clack in the morning of the 1 1 th, when the wind came to 
the N. W. and W. with which we flood to the fouthward till 
nine, when we tacked and flood N. V/. having the wind now 
at W. S. W. At fun-rife, the land had appeared to extend 
from W. N. W. to N. E. and at noon, we could fee it extend 
to the weftward as far as W. by S. \ S. but no farther to the 
eaftward than N. by E. We were now well allured, that as 
the firfl land we had feen was Timor, the laft ifland we had 
palled was Timor Laoet, or Laut. Laoet, is a word in the 
language of Malaca, fignifying Sea, and this illand was named 
by the inhabitants of that country. The fouth part of it lies in 
latitude 8° 15' S. longitude 228° 10' W. but in the charts the 
fouth point is laid down in various latitudes, from 8° 30' to 9“ 
30' : it is indeed polfible that the land we faw might be fome 
ether illand, but the prefumption to the contrary is very ftrong, 
for if Timor Laut had lain where it is placed in the charts, we 
mull have feen it there. We were now in latitude 9 9 37' S. ; 
longitude, by an obfervation of the fun and moon, 233° 54' 
W. we were the day before in 233° 27'; the difference is 27', 
exaftly the fame that was given by the log : this, however, is 
a degree of accuracy in obfervation that is feldom to be expedted. 
In the afternoon, we flood in Ihore till eight in the evening, 
when we tacked and flood off - , being at the diftance of about 
three leagues from the land, which at fun-fet extended from 
S. W. i W. to N. E. : at this time we founded, and had no 
ground with 140 fathom. At midnight, having but little wind, 
we tacked and flood in, and at noon the next day, our latitude, 
by obfervatioiw was 9 0 36' S. This day, we faw fmoke on 
Ihore in feveral places, and had feen many fires during the 
night. The land appeared to be very high, riling in gradual 
Hopes one above another : the hills were in general covered 
with thick woods, but among them we could diftinguilh naked 
fpots of a confiderable extent, which had the appearance of 
having been cleared by art. At five o’clock in the afternoon, 
we were within a mile and an half of the Ihore, in fixteen 
fathom water, and abreaft of a fmall inlet into the low land, 
which lies in latitude g° 34 S. and probably is the fame that 
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