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A VOYAGE TO 
March 20 x ° Eaft > which was nine degrees to the Wehward of 
our intended port. In all this run we faw nothing, except 
now and then a Tropic bird, that could induce us to think 
we had failed near any land. In the latitude of 34 0 20', * 
longitude 199 0 , we paffed the trunk of a large tree, which 
was covered with barnacles ; a lign that it had been long 
at fea. 
Saturday 29. On the 29th, at ten in the morning, as we were handing 
to the North Eah, the Difcovery made the fignal of feeing 
land. We faw it from the mah-head almoh the fame mo¬ 
ment, bearing North Eah by Eah by compafs. We foon 
difcovered it to he an ihand of no great extent, and hood 
for it till funfet, when it bore North North Eah, dihant 
about two or three leagues. 
The night was fpent in handing off and on, and at day- 
Sunday 30. break the next morning, I bore up for the lee or Weh fide 
of the ihand, as neither anchorage nor landing appeared 
to be practicable on the South fide, on account of a great 
furf *, which broke every where with violence againh the 
fhore, or againh the reef that furrounded it. 
We prefently found that the^illand was inhabited, and 
faw feveral people, on a point of the land we had paffed, 
wading to the reef, where, as they found the fhip leaving 
them quickly, they remained. But others, who foon ap¬ 
peared in different parts, followed her courfe; and fome- 
times feveral of them collected into fmall bodies, who made 
a fhouting noife all together, nearly after the manner of 
the inhabitants of New Zealand. 
Between feven and eight o’clock, we were at the Weh 
North Weh part of the illand, and, being near the fhore, we 
* A very ingenious and fatisfa&ory account of the caufe of the furf, is to be met with 
in Marfden’s Hiftory of Sumatra, p. 29. 32. 
COUld 
