I Bought Of Them A Portuguese Boy, Given By
The Hollanders To Their King, But Who Refused To Apostatize From
Christianity, And Paid For Him 45 Dollars.
We have seen thirty or forty
islands since leaving Bantam.
The 10th we made sail from Jackatra. There
is a sunken island even with the water, about two leagues W. by N. from
the east point of Jackatra, which we left to larboard, going between it
and the easter island. The two points forming Jackatra bay bear E.S.E.
and W.N.W. four leagues distant, the eastermost island being in a
straight line between both points. At noon on the 11th we were ten
leagues N.E. from the east point of Jackatra. The 12th at noon, we were
two leagues S.W. by S. from an island, having sailed thirty leagues E.
by S. The 15th we came near Madura, contrary to my expectation, whence I
suppose that the island of Java is not so long as it is laid down in the
charts, or else that we had found a current setting to the east. The
18th we were near the islands of Nossaseres or Nussasira, which were
N. by W. a league from us, in lat. 5 deg. 30' S. The 21st, in the forenoon,
we saw Celebes; but we could not fetch Macassar. Coming to anchor,
we parted our cable and lost an anchor. The 4th February we saw
Bourro. The 5th I held a council to consider what was best to be done,
as the wind did not serve for the Moluccas, when it was concluded to go
for Banda.
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