Cook, James, A voyage to the Pacific Ocean (v. 4)

(London :  Printed for Champante and Whitrow ... and M. Watson ...,  1793.)

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^7?                    A   VOYAGE   TO   THE
 

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'tftfdi^lufe'of^''iU Shifs [frohn^ulo Condore—See
' ^T^^h Tiinmn-^Pulo Puiffahg—Pulo Aotr^Pulo
^FdrifMg^^ffdiids called Dominis—Pulo Tdp—^
^^ Enter the-Sir aits^ of Bdnca-^IftaTid of Piiftpara
.-^IXfcription^'of the country that borders on 'the
,Straifs of Banca]r-The Siflers defer ibid—See the
Ifland of Java—-Enter the Straits of Sunda—
Mr. Williamfon fent on board a Dutcli Ship to
procure intelligcJice—^Anchor at Cracatoa—De-
fcription of that Ifland—Proceed to Prince's If--
land—Supplies obtained there—Situation of the
Watering-place there—Unhealthy Effeds of the
Climate of Java—The Crew of the Refolution
in a morefickly State than that of ihe Difcovery
=—.4 fudden Storm—Steer for the Cape of Good
Hope—Anchor in Simon's Bay—The two Cap--
tains vifit the Governor of the Cape—Defcrip^
tion of Falfe Bay—Of Simon's Bay—Noah's Ark
—Seal If and—Fruitlefs Attempt to get into Port
Galway in Ireland—Steer to the North of Lewi\
Ifland—Anchor at Siromncfs—Cjncluding Re-^
marks,

''E weighed anchor on the 2 3th, and had
no fooner cleared the harbour, than we
flood to the fouth-fouth-weft for Pulo Timoan,
On Sunday the 30th, at ^elve o'clock, our lati-

ude,
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