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1780. would be a valuable acquisition, I was inclined to have 
brought them with me to England ; but my intention was 
frustrated by an incurable hurt that one of them received 
at fea. 
Friday 28. It was not till the 28th, that the buffaloes were all got on 
board; however, there was no reafon to regret the time 
taken up by this Service, fince, in the interim, two wells of 
excellent water had been difcovered, of which, as alfo of 
W'ood, part of the fhips companies had been employed in 
laying in a good Supply ; fo that a Shorter ftop would be ne- 
ceffary, for replenishing our Stock of thefe articles, in the 
Strait of Sunda. A party had likewife been occupied in 
drawing the feine, at the head of the harbour, where they 
took a great many good fiSh; and another party, in cutting 
down the cabbage-palm, which was boiled and ferved out 
with the meat. Befides this, having been able to procure 
only a Scanty Supply of cordage at Macao, the repairing of 
our rigging was become an object of constant attention, 
and demanded all our Spare time. 
Pulo-Condore is high and mountainous, and Surrounded 
by Several Smaller iflands, fome of which are lefs than one, 
and others two miles diftant. It takes its name from two 
Malay words, Pulo Signifying an ifland, and Condore a cala- 
bafh, of which it produces great quantities. It is of the 
form of a crefcent, extending near eight miles from the 
Southernmost point, in a North Eaft direction; but its 
breadth no where exceeds two miles. From the Weltern- 
moSt extremity, the land trends to the South Eaft for about 
four miles ; and opposite to this part of the coaft there is 
an ifland, called, by Monfieur D’Apres*, Little Condore , 
which runs two miles in the fame direction. This position 
* Neptune Oriental, 
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