Inquisitive Behaviour of the Dutch. 193 
in Englifh, duplicates of which he had in other languages, 
particularly in French and Dutch, all regularly figrifcd, in the 
name of the Governor and Council of the Indies, by their fe- 
cretary: it contained nine queftions, very ill exprefled in the 
following terms: • ■ _ 
“ j. To what nation the fhip belongs, and its name? 
“ 2. If it comes from Europe, or any other place ? 
“ 3. From what place it laltly departed from? 
“ 4. Whereunto deiigned to go ? 
“ 5. What and how many fhips of the Dutch Company 
“ by departure from the laft fnore there layed, and their names ? 
“ 6 . If one or more of thefe fhips in company with this, is 
“ departed for this, or any other place? 
“ 7. If during the voyage any particularities is happened 
* c or feen ? 
“ 8. If not any fhips in fea, or the Streights of Sunaa, 
“ have feen or hailed in, and which? 
“ 9. If any other news worth of attention, at the place from 
“ whence the fhip laftly departed, or during the voyage, is 
“ happened. 
Batavia, in the Caflle. 
“ By order of the Governor General, and the_ 
“ Counfellors of India, 
“ J. Brander Buncl, Sec.” 
Of thefe queftions I anfwered only the firft and the fourth; 
-which when the officer faw, he faid anfwers to the reft were of 
no confequence : yet he immediately added, that he muft fend 
•that very paper away to Batavia, and that it would be there the 
next day at noon. I have particularly related this incident, 
becaufe I have been credibly informed that it is but of late years 
that the Dutch have taken upon them to examine fhips that 
pafs through this Streight. 
At ten o’clock the fame morning, we weighed, with a ligh,t 
breeze at S. W. ; but did little more than ftern the current, and 
about two o’clock anchored again under Bantam Point, where 
we lay till nine; . a light breeze then fpringing up at S. E. we 
weighed and flood to the eaftward till ten o’clock the next morn- 
ing, when the current obliged us again to anchor r twenty- 
two fathom, Pulababi bearing E. by S. \ S. diftani between, 
three and four miles. Having alternately weighed and anchored 
feveral times, till four. in the afternoon of the 7th, we then 
flood to the eaftward, with a very faint breeze at N. E. and 
puffed Wapprng Ifland, and the firft ifland to the eaftward of 
it; when the wind dying away, w-ewe^e carried by the current 
between the firft and fecond of the iflanSs that lie to the eaft- 
ward of Wapping Ifland, where we were obliged to anchor in 
thirty fathom, being very near a ledge of rocks that run out 
from one of the ifiands. At two the next morning we weighed 
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