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with great pleafure, that the Swallow had been at Batavia 
about two years before. 
At feven o’clock a breeze fprung up at S. S. W. with which 
having weighed, we flood to the N. E. between Thwart-the- 
way-Iiland and the Cap, founding from eighteen to twenty- 
eight fathom : we had but little wind all night, and having 
a ftrong current againft us, we got no further by eight in the 
morning than Bantam Point. At this time the wind came 
to the N. E. and obliged us to anchor in two and twenty 
fathom, at about the diftance of two miles from the fhore ; 
the point bore N. E. by E. diftant one league, and here we 
found a ftrong current fetting to the N. W. In the morning 
we had feen the Dutch packet ftanding after us, but when the 
wind fluffed to the N. E. fhe bore away. 
At fix o’clock in the evening, the wind having obliged us 
to continue at anchor, one of the country boats came along 
fide of us, on board of which was the mafter of the packet. 
He feemed to have two motives for his vifit, one to take an 
account of the Ihip, and the other to fell us refreftiments ; 
for in the boat were turtle, fowls, ducks, parrots, paroquets, 
rice- birds, monkies, and other articles, which they held at a 
very high price, and brought to a bad market, for our Savu 
flock was not yet expended : however, I gave a Spanifti dol- 
lar for a fmall turtle, which weighed about fix and thirty 
pounds ; Tgave alfo a dollar for ten large fowls, and after- 
wards bought fifteen more at the fame price ; for a dollar we 
might alfo have bought two monkies, or a whole cage of rice- 
birds. The Mafter of the floop brought with him two books, 
in one of which he defired that any of our officers would write 
down the name of the ftiip and its commander, with that of 
the place from which fhe failed, and of the port to which flie 
was bound, with fuch other particulars relating to themfelves, 
as they might think proper, for the information of any of our 
friends that fhould come after us : and in the other he entered 
the names of the fhip and the Commander himfelf, in order 
to tranfmit them to the Governor and Council of the Indies. 
We perceived that in the firft book many fhips, particularly 
Portuguefe, had made entries of the fame kind with that for 
which it was prefented to us. Mr. Hicks, however, having 
written the name of the fhip, only added “ from Europe.” 
He took notice of this, but faid, that he was fatisfied with 
ary thing we thought fit to write, it being intended merely 
for the information of thofe who fhould enquire after us from 
motives of friendfhip. 
Having made feveral attempts to fail with a wind that 
would not ftem the current, and as often come to an anchor, 
a proa came along fide of us in the morning of the ^th, in 
which was a Dutch officer, who fentme down a printed paper 
in 
