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quake in an horizontal direction, juft below where the rafters were inferted thatfupport the roof, forty feet in length ; and a fummer-houfe made of bamboos, clofelycovered with fhrubbery, which flood behind my houfe, was thrown down; befides■which, no damage was found to have been done any where.
CHAP. XXI. — Departure from Amboyna. — View of the Ifland Amblauw. — Of the.Ifands of St. Matthew .— Of tbe Toucan-bejfis. — Of Cadoepan. — Of Bouton. — OfCaybyne and Lizard-ifland .— Of Saleyer. — Celebes . — Pajfage of the Budgeroons. —The IJlarcl Tanakeke. — View of the Tonyns, or Tunny IJlands .— Of Great Solombo.— Of Madura. — Mandelique. — Anchorage off Japara. — Navigation along the:Coaji of Java. — Anchorage in the Road of Batavia .— Obfervations refpecling theNavigation to Amboyna. — Great Inaccuracy of the Charts. — Strong Currents. —Calms.
AFTER my fhip had been unladen, and had taken in a new cargo, we left the road ;We were the whole of that day and the following night in working, down the bay,,keeping always on the windward fide, which was the fhore of Leytimor, as, on entering,k had been that of Hitoe.
On the 9th of June, at funrife, we were abreaft of the Portuguefe bay, and at teno’clock A.M. we were out at fea.
At funfet we got fight of the ifland Amblauw, and on the next morning, of thedland Bouro, abreaft of us, to north-north-eaft.
On the 11th, in the evening, we faw the iflands of St. Matthew , from the maintop,and lay-by during the night, on account of our vicinity to the Toucan-beflis.
In the morning of the next day we again purfued our courfe, but made but littleas the air was very thick, by the rain, and we had no good view, in order notto fall unexpectedly upon the Toucan-beffis; at feven o’clock, however, we fuddenlyf aw them before us, about a league a-head ; we inftantly tacked and ftood off, tillthe weather cleared up a little, and till, at eight oclock, we'could purfue our voyagea gain. We paffed thofe dangerous iflands, and had likewife a view of the ifland Ca--doep an , w here it is faid that many cloves are produced; fleering for the eaft point of.Bouton, which we doubled about midnight.
On the 13th, at funfet, we faw the ifland Cabyne and Hagediffen, or Lizard-ifland ;on the morning of the next day, the ifland Saleyer, and two hours afterwards thecoaft 0 f Celebes , with the little iflands the Budgeroons Iving between them; at ten0 ^ock, A.M. we paffed this narrow ftrait in fafety, running between the fouthern-j?°ft and middlemoft of the Budgeroons, at the diftance of one-eighth, of a league-ff om the former. 6
In the afternoon we founded, for the firft time, in thirty-four fathoms, ftiff clay,,?g then abreaft of Boela-comba, about three leagues off fhore..filing by the lead, during the night, along the coaft of Celebes , we were, on theriling of the next day, by the ifland of Tanakeke; whence we fleered our courfeas to pafs the Laars, or Boot, at a proper place. At noon we faw the Tonyns,
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fnn Unny lflan ds, and at funfet the iflands of Salinas, bearing north, five leagues,"'"'ding continually with a line of twenty-five fathoms, , without ftriking ground
®P° n the Laars.
the 16th we again ftruck foundings, which we afterwards kept.
* t ^ e *7th we got fight of the ifland Great Solombo, which we found to be of a0 crate height, 'and placed too far fouth in the charts, by thirteen minutes, or three
leagues
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