In this account of the island of Savu it must be remembered, that except the facts in which we were parties, and the account of the objects which we had an opportunity to examine, the whole is founded merely upon the report of Mr. Lange, upon whose authority alone therefore it must rest. CHAP CHA P. X. The Run from the Island of Savu to Batavia, and an Account of the Transactions there while the Ship was refitting. I 1770. N the morning of Friday the 21ft of September, 1770, we got under fail, and stood September. away to the weftward, along the north fide of Friday 21. the island of Savu, and of the fmaller that lies to the weftward of it, which at noon bore from us S. S. E. diftant two leagues. At four o'clock in the afternoon, we difcovered a fmall low ifland, bearing S. S. W. diftant three leagues, which has no place in any chart now extant, at leaft in none that I have been able to procure : it lies in latitude 10° 47′ S., longitude 238° 28′ W. At noon on the 22d, we were in latitude 11° Saturd. 22. 10 S., longitude 240° 38′ W. In the evening of the 23d, we found the variation of the needle Sunday 23. to be 2° 44′ W.; as foon as we got clear of the islands we had conftantly a fwell from the fouthward, which I imagined was not caused by a wind blowing from that quarter, but by the fea being fo determined by the position of the coaft of New Holland. At 1770. September. Monday 24 Tuesday 25. Wednef. 26. At At noon on the 26th, being in latitude 10° 47 S., longitude 249° 52′ W., we found the variation to be 3° 10' W., and our fituation to be twenty-five miles to the northward of the log; for which I know not how to account. Thurfd. 27. noon on the 27th, our latitude by observation was 10° 51 S., which was agreeable to the log; and our longitude was 252° 11' W. We fteered N. W. all day on the 28th, in order to make the land of Java; and at noon on the 29th, our latitude by obfervation was 9° 31 S., longitude 254° 10′ W.; and in the morning of the Sunday 30. 30th, I took into my poffeffion the log-book and journals, at least all I could find, of the of ficers, petty officers, and seamen, and enjoined them fecrecy with refpect to where they had Friday 28. Óctober. Monday 1. been. At feven in the evening, being in the latitude of Java Head, and not feeing any land, I concluded that we were too far to the weftward: I therefore hauled up E. N. E. having before fteered N. by E. In the night, we had thunder and lightning; and about twelve o'clock, by the light of the flashes, we saw the land bearing east. I then tacked and stood to the S. W. till, four o'clock in the morning of the 1ft of October; and at fix, Java Head, or the weft end of Java, bore S. E. by E., diftant five leagues: foon after we saw Prince's Inland, bearing E. S.; and at ten, the island of Cracatoa, bear ing N. E. Cracatoa is a remarkably highpeaked island, and at noon it bore N. 40 E. diftant feven leagues. I must now obferve that, during our run from Savu, I allowed twenty minutes a-day for the wefterly current, which I concluded must run ftrong at this time, especially off the coaft of Java, and I found that this allowance was just equivalent to the effect of the current upon the ship. 1770. October. Monday 1. At four o'clock in the morning of the 2d, we Tuesday fetched close in with the coast of Java, in fifteen fathom; we then stood along the coaft, and early in the forenoon, I fent the boat afhore to try if she could procure fome fruit for Tupia, who was very ill, and fome grafs for the buffaloes that were still alive. In an hour or two fhe returned with four cocoa-nuts, and a small bunch of plantains, which had been purchased for a fhilling, and fome herbage for the cattle, which the Indians not only gave us, but affifted our people to cut. The country looked like one continued wood, and had a very pleasant appearance. About eleven o'clock, we faw two Dutch fhips lying off Anger Point, and I fent Mr. Hicks on board of one of them to inquire news of our country, from which we had been abfent fo long. In the mean time it fell calm, and about noon I anchored in eighteen fathom with VOL. IV. a muddy X 1770. October. a muddy bottom. When Mr. Hicks returned he reported that the fhips were Dutch Eaft InTuesday 4. diamen from Batavia, one of which was bound to Ceylon, and the other to the coaft of Malabar; and that there was also a flyboat or packet, which was faid to be ftationed here to carry letters from the Dutch fhips that came hither to Batavia, but which I rather think was appointed to examine all ships that pafs the Streight: from these ships we heard, with great pleasure, that the Swallow had been at Batavia about two years before. At feven o'clock a breeze sprung up at S. S. W., with which having weighed, we stood to the N. E. between Thwart-the-way-Island and the Cap, founding from eighteen to twenty-eight fathom we had but little wind all night, and having a strong current against us, we got no further by eight in the morning than Bantam Wednef. 3. Point. At this time the wind came to the N. E., and obliged us to anchor in two and twenty fathom, at about the diftance of two miles from the fhore; the point bore N. E. by E., diftant one league, and here we found a ftrong current fetting to the N. W. In the morning we had feen the Dutch packet ftanding after us, but when the wind fhifted to the N. E. fhe bore away. At fix o'clock in the evening, the wind having obliged us to continue at anchor, one of the country |