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A VOYAGE TO 
Februar an< ^ ^ 1C lifters North, 27 0 Eaft, diftant four leagues; out 
latitude was 5 0 n' South, longitude 105° 57' Eaft. 
At four in the afternoon, we faw two fail in the Strait 
of Sunda; one lying at anchor near the Mid-channel Ifland; 
the other nearer the Java fhore. Not knowing to what na¬ 
tion they might belong, we cleared our fhips for a6tion; 
and at fix came to an anchor in twenty-five fathoms, four 
miles Eaft by South from North Ifland. Here we lay all 
night, and had very heavy thunder and lightning to the 
North Weft; from which quarter the wind blew in light 
breezes, accompanied with hard rain. 
Tuefday 8. At eight o’clock the next morning, we weighed, and pro¬ 
ceeded through the Strait, the tide fetting to the Southward, 
as it had done all night; but about ten the breeze failing, 
we came to again in thirty-five fathoms; a high illand, or 
rather rock, called the Grand Toque, bearing South by Eaft. 
We were, at this time, not more than two miles from the 
fhips, which, now hoifting Dutch colours, Captain Gore 
fent a boat on board for intelligence. The rain ftill conti¬ 
nued with thunder and lightning. 
Early in the afternoon, the boat returned with an account 
that the large fliip was a Dutch Eaft-Indiaman, bound for 
Europe; and the other a pacquet from Batavia, with orders 
for the feveral Ihips lying in the Strait. It is the cuftom for 
the Dutch fhips, as foon as their lading is nearly comple¬ 
ted, to leave Batavia, on account of its extreme unwhole- 
fomenefs, and proceed to fome of the more healthy illands 
in the Strait, fyhere they wait for the remainder of their 
cargo, and their difpatches. Notwithstanding this precau¬ 
tion, the Indiaman had loft, fince her departure from Ba¬ 
tavia, four men, and had as many more whole recovery 
was defpaired of. She had lain here a fortnight, and was 
now 
