to the inhabitants, who consider all the fish about these islands as their own.  There are two fine rivers that run into this bay, and the water is excellent:  It was indeed so much better than what we had on board, that I filled as many casks with it as loaded the boat twice.  While we lay here, some of the natives brought down an animal which had the body of a hare, and the legs of a deer; one of our officers bought it, and we should have been glad to have kept it alive, but it was impossible for us to procure for it such food as it would eat; it was therefore killed, and we found it very good food.  All the while we lay here, we had the most violent thunder, lightning, and rain, that I had ever known; and, finding that nothing more was to be procured, we sailed again on Thursday morning, with a fine breeze off the land.  In the afternoon, we tried the current, and found it set S.E. at the rate of a mile an hour.  The variation here was 38’ W. We certainly made this passage at an improper season of the year; for after we came into the latitude of Pulo Condore, we had nothing but light airs, calms, and tornadoes, with violent rain, thunder, and lightning.

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. 1/2 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. 1/2 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 deg. 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 Tote, 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, Palo 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 fathoms an hour.  We saw a sloop at anchor about four miles from us, which hoisted Dutch colours.  In the night we had violent rain, with hard squalls, during one of which we parted the stream cable, and therefore let go the small bower.  At eight in the morning, the wind became moderate and variable,