1767 ings at fixty-five fathom, with brown fand, small November. fhells, and ftones; and at noon, found the ship Satuid. 7. again to the northward of her reckoning ten miles, and had decreased our foundings to twenty-eight fathom, with the fame ground. Our latitude was 8° 36′ N., longitude 253° W. At two o'clock, we faw the island of Condore, from the mast-head, bearing W, N. At four, we had ground with twenty fathom; the island bearing from W. to N. W. by W. diftant about thirteen leagues, and having the appearance of high hummocks. The latitude of this island is 8° 40′ N.; longitude, by our reckoning, 254° 15'. Sunday 8. Tuesday 10. We now altered our courfe; and the next morning, I took from the petty officers and feamen, all the log and journal books relative to the voyage. On the oth, being in latitude 5o 20′ N., longitude 255° W. we found a current fetting four fathom an hour S. by W.; and during our course to the islands Timoun, Aros, and Pefang, which we faw about fix in the afternoon of the 13th, we Friday 13. were every day from ten to twenty miles fouthward of our reckoning. Monday 16. Tuesday 17. On the 16th, at ten in the morning, we crofed the line again into South latitude, in longitude 255°; and foon after we faw two islands, one bearing S. by E. diftant five leagues, and the other S. by W. diftant feven leagues. The next morning, the weather became very dark and tempeftuous, with heavy rain; we therefore clewed all up, and lay by till we could fee 4 about 1767, November. about us. The two islands proved to be Pulo Toté, and Pulo Wette; and having made fail till one o'clock, we faw the Seven Inlands. We continued our courfe till two the next morning, the Wednef.18. weather being very dark, with heavy fqualls of wind, and much lightning and rain. While one of these blafts was blowing with all its violence, and the darkness was fo thick that we could not fee from one part of the fhip to the other, we fuddenly discovered, by a flash of lightning, a large veffel clofe a-board of us. The fteerfman instantly put the helm a-lee, and the ship answering her rudder, we juft cleared each other. This was the first ship we had seen fince we parted with the Swallow; and it blew fo hard, that not being able to understand any thing that was faid, we could not learn to what nation fhe belonged. At fix, the weather having cleared up, we faw a fail at anchor in the E. S. E.; and at noon, we faw land in the W. N. W. which proved to be Pulo Taya, Pulo Toté bearing S. 35° E. Pulo Wefte S. 13° E. At fix in the evening, we anchored in fifteen fathom, with fandy ground; and obferved a current running E. N. E. at the rate of five fathom an hour. At fix in the morning, we weighed and made Thursd, 19. fail, and foon after faw two veffels a-head; but at fix in the evening, finding that we loft much ground, we came again to an anchor in fifteen fathom, with a fine sandy bottom. At fix o'clock the next morning, the current Friday 20. being flack, we hove fhort on the fmall bower, November. Friday 20. 1767. which foon after parted at a third from the clench. We immediately took in the cable, and perceived that, although we had founded with great care before we anchored, and found the bottom clear, it had been cut through by the rocks. After fome time, the current becoming ftrong, a fresh gale fpringing up, and the fhip being a great way to the leeward, I made fail, in hopes to get up and recover the anchor; but I found at laft that it was impoffible, without anchoring again; and being afraid of the confequences of doing that in foul ground, I determined to ftand on, especially as the weather was become fqually. Saturd. 21. Sunday 22 Monday 30. We were, however, able to make very little way till the next day, when, about three in the afternoon, we faw Monopin Hill bearing S. 3 E. and advancing very little, faw the coaft of Sumatra at half an hour after fix the next morning. We continued to fuffer great delay by currents and calms, but on Monday the 30th of November, we anchored in Batavia Road. СНАР. CHA P. XI. Tranfactions at Batavia, and an Account of the Hope. W E found here fourteen fail of Dutch Eaft1767. India fhips, a great number of fmall vef- December, fels, and his Majesty's ship the Falmouth, lying upon the mud in a rotten condition. I fent an officer on fhore, to acquaint the Governor of our arrival, to obtain his permiffion to purchase refreshments, and to tell him that I would falute him, if he would engage to return an equal number of guns. The Governor readily agreed; and at fun-rife, on Tuesday the 1ft of December, Tu:sday %. * I faluted him with thirteen guns, which he returned with fourteen from the fort. Soon after, the purfer fent off fome fresh beef, and plenty of ve-. getables, which I ordered to be ferved immediately; at the fame time I called the fhip's company together, and told them that I would not fuffer any liquor to come on board, and would feverely punish those who fhould attempt to bring any: and I took fome pains to reconcile them to this regulation, by affuring them that in this country intemperance would inevitably destroy them. As a further preservative, I fuffered not a man to go on fhore, except those who were upon duty; and took 1757 took care than none even of thefe ftraggled into the town. December. Wednef. z. Saturd. 5. On the 2d, I fent the boatfwain and the carpenter, with the carpenter of the Falmouth, to look at fuch of her ftores as had been landed at Onrust, with orders, that if any were fit for our use they fhould be bought. At their return, they informed me that all the ftores they had feen were rotten, and unfit for use, except one pair of tacks, which they brought with them: the masts, yards, and cables were all dropping to pieces, and even the iron work was fo rufty that it was worth nothing. They also went on board the Falmouth to examine her hulk, and found her in fo fhattered a condition, that in their opinion the could not be kept together during the next monfoon. Many of her ports were washed into one, the ftern-poft was quite decayed, and there was no place in her where a man could be fheltered from the weather. The few people who belonged to her were in as bad a ftate as their veffel, being quite broken and worn down, and expecting to be drowned as foon as the monfoon fhould fet in. Among other neceffaries, we were in want of an anchor, having loft two, and of three inch rope for rounding the cables; but the officers whom I had fent to procure thefe articles, reported, that the price which had been demanded for them was fo exorbitant, that they had not agreed to give it. On Saturday the 5th, therefore, I went on fhore myself, for the first time, and visited the different storehouses and arsenals, but found it impoffible to |