They arrive off the Island of Java, igi 
agreeable to the log; and our longitude was 25 z° ii'W. 
We lleered N. W. all day on the 28th, in order to make the 
land of Java ; and at noon on the 29th, our latitude by ob- 
fervation Was 9® 31' S., longitude 254® 10' W. ; and in the 
morning of the 30th, I took into my poffeffion the log-book 
and journals, at leatl all I could find, of the officers, petty 
officers, and feamen, and enjoined them fecrecy with refpeft 
to where they had been. 
At feven in the evening, being in the latitude of Java 
Head, and not feeing any land, I concluded that we were too far 
to the weftward : I therefore hauled up E. N. E. having be- 
fore fleered N. by E. In the night we had thunder and light- 
ning ; and about twelve o’clock, by the light of the flafhes, 
we faw the land bearing eaft. 1 then tacked and flood to the 
S. W. till four o’clock in the morning of the firft of O&ober ; 
and at fix, Java Head, or the weft end of Java, bore S. E. 
by E. diftant five leagues : foon after we faw Prince’s Ifland, 
bearing E. i- S. ; and at ten, the ifland of Cracatoa, bearing 
N. E. Cracatoa is a remarkably high-peaked ifland, and at 
r.oon it bore N. 40 E. diftant feven leagues. 
I muft now obferve that, during our run from Savu, I al- 
lowed twenty minutes a day for the wefterly current, which I 
concluded muft run ftrong at this time, efpecially off the coaft 
of Java, and I found that this allowance was juft equivalent 
to the effedl of the current upon the fhip. 
At four o’clock in the morning of the 2d, we fetched clofe 
in with the coaft of Java, in fifteen fathom ; we then flood, 
along the coaft, and early in the forenoon, I fent the boat 
alhore to try if Ihe could procure fome fruit for Tupia, who 
was very ill, and fome grafs for the buffaloes that were ftill 
alive. Ir. an hour or two Ihe returned with four cocoa-nuts, 
and a fmall bunch of plantains, which had been purchafed for 
a fhilling, and fome herbage for the cattle, which the In- 
dians not only gave us, but aflifted our people to cut. The 
country looked like one continued wood, and had a very plea- 
fant appearance. 
About eleven o’clock, we faw two Dutch fliips lying off 
Anger point, and I fent Mr. Hicks on board one of them, to 
enquire news of our country, from which we had been abfent 
fo long. In the mean time it fell calm, and about noon I 
anchored in eighteen fathom with a muddy bottom. When 
Mr. Hicks returned, he reported that the fliips were Dutch 
Eaft Indiamen from Batavia, one of which was bound to Cey- 
lon, and the other to the coaft of Malabar ; and that there 
was alfo a flyboat or packet, which was faid to be flationed 
here to carry letters from the Dutch fliips that came hither to 
Batavia, but which I rather think was appointed to examine 
all fhips that pafs the ftreight : from thefe fliips we heard 
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