L I E U T E N A N T COOK ’s V O Y A GE
C II A P. X.
The Run from the I f and o f Savu to Batavia, and on
Account o f the TranfaSHons there •while the Ship
•was- refitting.
IN the morning of Friday the 21ft of September, 1770, we
got tinder fail, and flood away to the weftward, along
the north fide of the ifland 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 1 have been able to procure: it lies in latitude
ro° 47' S,, longitude 2-38° 28' W.
At noon on the 22d, we were in latitude i i° 10' S., longi-
Sunday 23, tude 240° 38' W. In the evening of the 23d, we found the
variation of the needle to be 2° 44' W .; as foon as we got
clear of the iflands we-had conftantly a fwell from the fouth-
ward, which I imagined was not caufed by a wind blowing
from that quarter, but by the fea being fo determined by the
pofition of the coaft of New Holland.
Monday 24. At noon on the 26th, beiBg in latitude io° 47' S„ longi-
Wednef. 2 6 . tude 249® 52' W. we found' the variation to be 30 10' W. and
our fituation to be twenty-five miles to the northward of the
lo g ; for which I know not how to account. At- noon on the
Thurfday 27. 27th, our latitude by obfervation was io° yi-'S; which was
agreeable to the lo g ; and our longitude was 252° iT W.
Friday 28. We fleered N. W. all day on the 28th, in order to make the
land
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Friday 21,
Saturday 22«
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land of Java; and at noon on the 29th, our latitude by- obfer- jJPjk
vation was 90 3 1'S., longitude 254? 10' W. 5 and in the morn-
ing of the 30th, I took into- my poffeffion the log-book and Sunday 3,0..
journals, at leaft all I could find, of the officers, petty officers,
and feamen, and enjoined them fecrecy withrefpeft to
where they had 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 fleered'N. by E. In the night, we had thunder and
lightning ; and about- twelve o’clock, by'the light of the
flalhes, we faw the land bearing eaft. I then tacked and ^
flood to the S.W. till four o’clock in the morning of the ift
of O (Sober; and at fix, Java Head, or the weft end-of Java,
bore S.E. by E. diftant five leagues: foon after we faw
Prince’s Ifland, bearing E.{S.; and at ten, the ifland of Cra-
eatoa, bearing N.E. Cracatoa is a remarkably high-peaked
ifland, and at noon it bore N.40E. diftant feven leagues-
I muft now obferve that, during our run from Savu, I allowed
twenty minutes a-day for the wefterly current, which
I concluded muft run ftrong at this time, efpecially off the
coaft of Java, and I found that this allowance was juft* equivalent
to the effedt of the current upon the fhip.
At four o’clock in the morning of the 2d, we fetched clofe Tcefday 2,
in with the coaft of Java, in fifteen fathom ; we then flood
along the coaft, and early in the forenoon, I fern- the boat
affiore to try if fhe could procure fome fruit fbrTupia, who
was very ill, and fome grafs for the buffaloes that were ftill
alive. In an hour or two fhe returned with four cocoa-nuts,
and a fmall bunch of plantains, which had been purchafed for
a fluffing, and-fome herbage for the cattle, which the Indians
not only gave us» but affifted our people to cut. The
country