At seven o’clock in the morning of Sunday the 10th, we saw the east end of the island of Lingen, bearing S.W. by W. distant eleven or twelve leagues. The current set E.S.E. at the rate of a mile an hour. At noon, it fell calm, and I anchored with the kedge in twenty fathom. At one o’clock, the weather having cleared up, we saw a small island bearing S.W. ½ S. distant ten or eleven leagues.

At one o’clock the next morning, we weighed and made sail; and at six, the small island bore W.S.W. distant about seven leagues, and some very small islands, which we supposed to be Domines islands, W. ½ N. distant about seven or eight leagues, a remarkable double peak on the island of Lingen, bearing at same time W. by N. distant about ten or twelve leagues. Our latitude by observation was now 18’S. The latitude of the east end of Lingen is 10’S., longitude 105° 15’E. Pulo Taya bears from it nearly S. by W. and is distant about twelve leagues.

At ten o’clock in the morning of Tuesday the 12th, we saw a small Chinese junk to the north east; and at seven the next morning a small island, called Pulo Toté, bearing S.E. by E. distant about twelve leagues. A little to the northward of Pulo Taya is a very small island, called Pulo Toupoa.

The next day, at four in the afternoon, there being no wind, we came to an anchor in fourteen fathom with soft ground, Pulo Taya bearing N. W. distant about seven leagues. We tried the current, and found it set E. by S. at the rate of two knots two fathom an hour. We saw a sloop at anchor about four miles from us, which hoisted Dutch

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