November ^>u^t bamboo, and are raifed upon pofts about eight
>------—h feet from the ground. Their boats are alfo well made, and
e °e' ' we faw fome o f a large fize, in which we fuppofed that they
carried on a trade to Malacca.
The iflahd is mountainous and woody, but we found it
pleafant when we were a ftiore; it produces the cabbage and
■ cocoa-nut tree in great plenty, but the natives did not chufe
to let us have any o f the fruit. We faw alfo fome rice
grounds, but what other vegetable productions Nature has
favoured them with, we had no opportunity to learn, as we
Raid here but two nights and one day. In the bay where
the fhip rode there is excellent foiling, though the furf runs-
very high: we hauled our feine with great fuceefs, but could
eafily perceive that it gave umbrage to the inhabitants, who
confider all- the foh about thefe iflands as their own, There
are two fine rivers- that run into this bay, and the Water is-’
■ excellent: it was - indeed fo much better than what we had
■ on board, that I filled as many calks with it as loaded
the boat twice. While we lay here, fome o f the natives
brought down an animal which had the body o f a hare,
and the legs o f a deer; one o f our officers bought it, and
-we ihoculd have been glad to have kept it alive, but it was
impoffible for us to procure for it fuch food as it would e a t;
it was therefore killed, and we found it very good food. All
the while we lay here, we had the moil violent thunder,,
lightning and rain, that I had ever known ; and finding
that nothing more was to be procured, we failed again pn
Thmday 7. Thurfday morning, with a fine breeze off the land. In the
afternoon, we tried the current, and found it fet S. E. at the
rate o f a mile an hour. The variation here was 38' W.
We certainly made this paffage at an improper feafon o f the
year; for after we came into the latitude o f Pulo Condore,
we
we had nothing but light -airs, calms, and. tornados, with i 7®5-
violent rain, thunder and lightning. >---- .---- >
At feven o’clock in the morning o f Sunday the 10th, We Sunday 10..
faw the eaft end o f the iiland o f Lingen, bearing S. W. by W.
diftant eleven or twelve leagues. The current fet E. S. E. at
the rate o f a mile an hour. At noon, it fell calm, and E
anchored with the kedge in twenty fatho,m. At one o’clock,,
the weather having cleared up, we faw a fmall iiland bearing;
S. W. -t S. diftant ten or eleven leagues-
At one o'clock the next morning, w e weighed and made Monday 1»,
fa il; and at fix, the fmall ifland bore W. S. W. diftant about
feven leagues, and fome very fmall iflands, which we fuppofed
to be Domines iflands, W. -t N. diftant about feven or
eight leagues, a remarkable double peak on the iiland of
Lingen, bearing at fame time W. by N. diftant about ten or
twelve leagues. Our latitude by obfervation was now
18' S. The latitude of- the eaft end of Lingen is 10' S., longitude
105° 15' E. Pulo Taya bears from it nearly S. by W-.
and is diftant about twelve, leagues.
At ten o’clock in the morning of Tuefday the 12th, we Tuefday. iz,,
faw a fmall Chinefe junk to the north eaft; and at feven the
next morning a. fmall iiland,. called Pulo Tote, bearing
S. E. by E. diftant about twelve leagues. A little to- the:
northward of Pulo Taya is a very fmall iftand, called Pulo-
Toupoa..
The next day, at four in the afternoon, there being no Wednefc ,3*-
wind, we came to an anchor in fourteen fathom with foft
ground, Pulo- Taya bearing N. W. diftant about feven
leagues. We tried the current* and found it fet E. liy S. at'
the rate o f two knots two fathom an hour.. We faw a iloop
at anchor about four miles from us, which hoifted Dutch;
3, colours,.