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A VOYAGE TO 
1780. to look for water; but after having landed with lome diffi- 
February,, h e returned unfuccefsful. 
Cracatoa is efteemed very healthy, in comparifon of the 
neighbouring countries. It confifts of high land, riling 
gradually on all fides from the fea; and the whole is co¬ 
vered with trees, except a few fpots which the natives 
have cleared for rice fields. The number of people on 
the ifland is very inconfiderable. Their Chief, as are thofe 
of all the other iflands in the Strait, is fubjecft to the King 
of Bantam. The coral reefs afford plenty of fmall turtles ; 
but other refrelhments are very fcarce, and fold at an enor¬ 
mous price. 
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Latitude of the road where the Refolution 
anchored - - - 8° 6' South. 
Longitude, by Mr. Bayly’s time-keeper - 104 48 Eaft. 
Ditto, by obfervation - - 105 36 Eaft. 
Dip of the South end of the magnetic 
needle - - - - - - 26 3 
Variation of the compafs - - -10 Weft. 
On the full and change days, it is high-water at 7 h in 
the morning. The water riles three feet two inches per¬ 
pendicular. 
At eight o’clock in the evening, it began to blow frelh 
from the Weft ward, with violent thunder, lightning, and 
Friday n. rain ; and at three the next morning, we weighed and ftood 
over for Prince’s Ifland, but the Wefterly wind dying away, 
was fucceeded by a breeze from the South Eaft, and, at the 
fame time, a ftroiig tide fettingto the South Weft prevented 
our fetching the ifland, and obliged us, at two in the after¬ 
noon. 
