In The Morning We Tried To
Enter A Deep Bay, At The Head Of Which Some Galela Fishermen Told
Us There Was Water, But A Head-Wind Prevented Us.
For the reward
of a handkerchief, however, they took us to the place in their
boat, and we filled up our jars and bamboos.
We then went round
to their camping-place on the north coast of the island to try
and buy something to eat, but could only get smoked turtle meat
as black and as hard as lumps of coal. A little further on there
was a plantation belonging to Guebe people, but under the care of
a Papuan slave, and the next morning we got some plantains and a
few vegetables in exchange for a handkerchief and some knives. On
leaving this place our anchor had got foul in some rock or sunken
log in very deep water, and after many unsuccessful attempts, we
were forced to cut our rattan cable and leave it behind us. We
had now only one anchor left.
Starting early, on the 4th of October, the same S.S.W wind
continued, and we began to fear that we should hardly clear the
southern point of Gilolo. The night of the 5th was squally, with
thunder, but after midnight it got tolerably fair, and we were
going along with a light wind arid looking out for the coast of
Gilolo, which we thought we must be nearing, when we heard a dull
roaring sound, like a heavy surf, behind us.
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