THE PELEW PS LANDS. 
until he could pronounce them; he took a piece of line, 
which he had brought with him for the purpofe of making 
remarks, and tied a knot thereon, as a remembrance of the 
circumftance.—At feven o’clock the wind changing to the 
northward, they bore away through a paflage between the 
iflands, and at noon were in the China fea, their latitude 
2i° 5' north, by obfervation; they had now fair weather with 
fmooth water, and by four o’clock in the afternoon had loft 
light of the Bashee iflands. 
The next morning about nine o’clock they faw land upon 
their quarter, bearing from N.E. f N. to E. N.E. being part 
of the ifland of Formosa; at noon their latitude was 21 0 
49' north. The fair weather continued next day, but with 
a fwell from the northward, which wet them a little ; their 
latitude at noon being 22 0 17" north. The wind increafing in 
the afternoon to a frefh gale, they now felt a material change 
to cold, of which they were the more fenfible from the hot 
weather they had before experienced. The next morning 
they faw feveral Chinefe fifhing-boats, and a frnall China 
junk *. At eight o’clock they faw land, being a fmall hill, 
bearing N. by W. ; at noon they were in latitude 22 0 20' 
north. The wind blowing brifkly, at one o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing they got foundings at twenty-live fathom, foft ground ; 
* ‘Junk is the name given by Europeans to the Chinefe- built veflels employed in their 
home or coafting trade j fome of them are very large, and trade to Batavia and 
Malacca. 
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1783- 
NOVEMBER. 
Wednefday 
2 , 6 . 
Thurfday 
27. 
Friday aS. 
Saturday 
29. 
