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1780. ing out-run our reckoning from the effedl of fome current, 
, J an “Y y *_, we were clofe upon Pulo Aor, in latitude 2 0 46 North, lon¬ 
gitude 104° 37' Eaft, before we were well aware of it, which 
obliged us to haul the wind to the Eaft South Eaft. We 
kept this courfe till midnight, and then bore away South 
South Eaft for the Strait of Banca. 
February. On the ift of February, at noon, our latitude, by obfer- 
Tuefday x. vat - OIlj was jQ 2Q / an d the longitude, deduced from 
a great number of lunar obfervations taken in the courfe 
of the preceding twelve hours, 105° Eaft. At the fame 
time, the longitude, by Mr. Bayly’s time-keeper corrected, 
was 105° 1 $' Eaft. We now fteered South by Eaft; and, 
at fun-fet, having fine clear weather, faw Pulo Panjang; 
the body of the ifland bearing Weft North Weft, and the 
fmall ifiands, lying on the South Eaft of it, Weft half South, 
feven leagues diftant. Our latitude, at this time, was o° 53' 
North. 
Wednef. 2. On the 2d, at eight in the morning, we tried for found¬ 
ings, continuing to do the fame every hour, till we had 
paffed the Strait of Sunda, and found the bottom with 
twenty-three fathoms of line. At noon, being in latitude, 
by obfervation, o° 22 7 South, longitude 105° 14" Eaft, and our 
foundings twenty fathoms, we came in fight of the little 
ifiands called Dominis, which lie off the Eaftern part of 
Lingen; and which bore from North 62° Weft, to North, 8o° 
Weft, five leagues diftant. At this time we paffed a great 
deal of wood, drifting on the fea; and, at one o’clock, we 
faw Pulo Taya, bearing South Weft by Weft, diftant feven 
leagues. It is a fmall high ifland, with two round peaks, 
.and two detached rocks lying off it to the Northward. When 
abreaft of this ifland, we had foundings of fifteen fathoms. 
During this and the preceding day, we faw great quantities 
of 
