The Road of Batavia or place where Shipping Anchor lies right before the City and is so large as to contain any number of Shipping. You Anchor with the Dome of the Great Church bearing about south in 7, 6 or 5 f^m water about 1½ or 2 Miles from shore, and nearer you cannot come with large ships by reason of a Mud bank which lines all the Shore of the Bay. the ground you anchor in is of such a Nature that the Anchors buries themselves so deep that it is with difficult[y] they are got out, for this reason Ships always [lays] at Single Anchor being in no manner of danger of fouling them — You lay apparantly open to the Winds from the NW to the ENE, but the Sea that is caused by these winds is a good deal broke before it reaches the Road by the small Islands & Shoals without: these shoals have all of them either Buoys or Beacons upon, but if these guides should be Move’d there is a very good Chart of this Bay and the Coast of Java as far as the Straeghts of Sunday bound up in the English East India Pilot sold by Mount & Page

Voyaging Accounts

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