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The next morning therefore, as soon as it was light, I sailed from this place, which I called DECEITFUL BAY, with a light land breeze, and betweeen ten and eleven o'clock we got off the bay or nook, at the bottom of which our boats had discovered the town and fort. It happened however that just at this time the weather became thick, with heavy rain, and it began to blow hard from a quarter which made the land here a lee shore; this obliged me to stand off, and having no time to lose, I stood away to the westward that I might reach Batavia before the season was past.
I shall now give a more particular account of our navigating the sea that washes the coasts of this island, the rather as Dampier's description is in several particulars erroneous.
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© Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, page 616, 2004
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