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p. 4.18.
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p. 4x8.
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On the 12th they had the mortification to find that the wefterly monfoon was
let in; againft which, and the current, it was impoffible for any ihip to get as
far weftward as Batavia. It was, therefore, neceffary to wait till the return
o f the eaftern monfoon. As they had buried thirteen of the crew, and thirty
more were at the point of death; as all the petty officers were among the lick;
and the Captain and Lieutenant, who did all duties, were in a feeble condition;
the only courfe they could purfue to preferve the lives of the reft, was to
endeavour to reach Macaffar, the principal fettlement of the Dutch upon the
Iiland o f Celebes.
In purfuance-of this plan, they bore away for it, and on the 15th anchored
about four miles from that town, which lies in latitude 5* jo’ or 50 12’ fouth,
longitude 1 170 28’ eaft; having fpent no lefs than five and thirty weeks in their
paffage from the Straits of Magellan. Here they were, at firft, in the moft
inhuman manner refufed admittance by the Dutch Governor; but the refolute
and fteady conduit of Captain Carteret afterwards, procured them permiffion
to anchor in Bonthain Bay, where they procured plenty of freih provifiops,
refitted their ihip in the belt manner they could, and re-eftablilhed the health
o f the crew. Bonthain, which, together with Macaffar, are the two principal
towns in the Ifle of Celebes, the key of the Molucca or Spice Iilands, lies in
latitude 50 30’ fouth, longitude 117° 53’ eaft; the country around it is level, and
has a moft beautiful appearance; and from the great number of houies inter-
fperfed among the plantations and groves of cocoa nut trees, feems to be
very populous.
As foon as Captain Carteret arrived at Bonthain, he altered the ihip’s reckoning,
as he had loft eighteen hours in coming by the weft; and the Europeans
he found there, having come by the eaft, had gained about fix, fo that the
difference was juft a day.
Having remained here upwards of five months, the feafon in which navigation
to the weftward is praiticable, to their great fatisfadion arrived; they
accordingly failed on the 22d of May 1768 from this place, and on the 3d of
June anchored in Batavia Road. They had now great reafon to congratulate
themfelves on their fituation; for, during the whole of their paffage from
Celebes,
Celebes, the ihip admitted fo much water by her leaks, that they could
Icarcely keep her from finking, with two pumps conftantly going.
The defeds of the ihip, being at length after a tedious delay repaired, they p. 439.
left Batavia on the 15th of September; and Captain Carteret thought himfelf
happy in being able to procure a fupply of Engliih feamen' here, as he had now P- 44°*
loft no lefs than four and twenty of the hands he had brought out of Europe,
and had the fame number fo ill, that feven of them died on his paffage to the
Cape of Good Hope.
On the 28th of November they anchored on Table Bay, at the Cape, where p.,441.
the recovery of his people made it neceffary for Captain Carteret to continue
till the 6th of January 1769, when he again fet fail, and after a fine and p. 442.
pleafant paffage, arrived on the 20th at the Iiland of Saint Helena. From this
place they proceeded on the 24th, and having touched at the Iiland of Afcenfion p* 44*«
on the 30th, they were fpoke with on the 19th of February by Monfieur
Bougainville, who was likewife returning from a fimilar voyage round the P- 443*
world, and who fent an officer on board the Swallow, to endeavour to gain from
Captain Carteret fome intelligence relative to the fuccefs of his expedition*
but in this he was difappointed by the prudent anfwers of the Captain to the
inquiries that were artfully made. And on the 20th of March, to their great p
joy, they anchored at Spithead; having been abfent from England three years
and feven months»
Monfieur B O U G A I N V I L L E ’ s Voyage in the Frigate
L A B O U D E U S E.
Monfieur Bougainville failed from Nantes on the 5th of November 1766, p- 2.
in his moft Chriftian Majefty’s frigate La Boudeufe, o f twenty-fix twelve-
pounders, in order to reftore to the Spaniards the Hies Malouines or Falkland
Iilands, on which the French had lately eftablilhed a fettlement. At that
place he was to be joined by the ftore Ihip L'Etoile, which was to bring him
an additional fupply of provifions, and he was then to proceed to the Eaft p-1-
Indies, by crofting the South Seas between the tropics.