1768. out damage: we had juft palled over the eaftermoft edge of
it, which is as fteep as a wall, for we had not gone back two
0» H cables! length before we were out of foundings again. At
this time, we had the two weftermoft o f the Tonyn Iflands in
one, bearing N. by W, at the diftance of fomewhat more
than four miles from the neareft. This is a very dangerous
fhoal, and is not laid down in any chart that I have feen: it
feemed to extend itfelf to the fouthward and weftward, all
round the two weftermoft of thefe three iflands, for near fix
miles, but about the eaftermoft ifland there feemed to be no
danger; there was alfo a clear pafiage between this ifland
and the other two. The latitude o f the eaftermoft and weftermoft
o f thefe iflands is 50 3 T S. T h e eaftermoft is diftant
thirty-four miles due weft from Tonikaky, and the weftermoft
lies ten miles farther.
Wednef. 25. In the afternoon of the 25th, we found the water much
difcoloured, upon which we founded, and had five and
thirty fathom with foft m u d ; foon after we went over the
northermoft part o f a fhoal, and had no more than ten fathom,
with foft mud. In this place, where we found the
water fhalloweft, it was very fo u l; it feemed to be ftill
fhallower to the fouthward, but to the northward o f us it
appeared to be clear. We had no obfervation this day, by
which I could afcertain the latitude, but I believe this to be
the northermoft part o f the fhoals that lie to the eaftward of
the ifland Madura, and in the Englifh Eaft India Pilot are
called Bralleron’s Shoals, the fame which in the Dutch
charts are called Kalcain’s Eylandens. By my reckoning,
the part that we went over lies in 5" 50' or 5° 52' S. and 3'
36' to the weftward o f the ifland Tonikaky, or S. 84° 27 W.
diftance fixty-nine leagues. At eleven o’clock the fame
night, we faw, to the northward o f us, the fouthermoft of
the iflands Salombo. I make its latitude to be 50 33’ S. and
its
its longitude weft of Tonikaky 40 4', at the diftance o f 1768.about eighty-two or eighty-three leagues. It bears from the i _‘i’
laft fhoal N.W. by W .jW . at the diftance of about fourteen Wednef' 25’
leagues. It is to be remarked, that hereabout, off the ifland
o f Madura, the winds of the monfoons are commonly a
month later in fettling than at Celebes. The variation here
was not more than half a degree weft, and we found the
current, which before fet to the fouthward, now fetting to
the N.W.
In the afternoon o f the 26th, we faw from the maft-head T h u r f d a y 16..
the ifland of Luback, and had foundings from thirty-five to
forty fathom, with a bottom o f bluifh clay. The latitude of
this ifland is 5° 43' S., and its longitude j° 36' weft o f Tonikaky,
from which it is diftant about one hundred and;
twelve leagues. Its diftance weft from the iflands of Salombo,
is thirty-one leagues: we went to the northward oft
this ifland, and found a current fetting to the W..N.W.
In the evening o f Sunday the 29th, we faw the clufter o f Sunda^j*.
fmall iflands called Carimon-Java. The latitude o f the eaftermoft,
which is alfo the largeft, is 5* 48' S- and its longitude,
weft of Tonikaky, 70 52'. From this-ifland it is diftant
about 158 leagues, and forty-five leagues from Luback..
On Thurfday the 2d of June, we hauled in and made the Jmc. .
land of Java, which proved to be that part o f the ifland Tllurfda)'~
which makes the eaftermoft point of the bay o f Batavia’
called Carawawang Point. When we firft got fight of the
land, we had gradually decreafed our foundings from forty
to eight and twenty fathom, with a bottom o f bluifh mud..
A's we fleered along the fliore for Batavia, we decreafed them:
gradually,: ftill farther, to thirteen fathom, the depth in-
which, night coming on, we anchored near the two fmall:
iflands called Leyden.and Alkmar, in fig lit of Batavia;, and*.
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