The Island Which Makes That Side Of The Strait Is Called
Tavally Backar, Where We Anchored And Remained Till The 12th, Waiting
For Key Malladaia, Being The Place Where He Appointed To Come To Us,
Being Ten Leagues From Machian.
In this island of Tavally we had plenty
of wood, but no water.
The 13th our coopers provided themselves with
rattans, which make excellent hoops, and of which there was abundance
to be had here of all sizes.
[Footnote 425: Tahannee is a town on the island of Machian, where the
Portuguese formerly had a fort, but there is none now, neither for them
nor the Hollanders. There is here the best anchorage in the whole
island, and though very near the shore, yet perfectly safe. - Purchas.]
As Key Malladaia did not make his appearance on the 14th, his people
doubted that the Dutch had detained him, on seeing us making our way
among the islands, and suspecting he was in treaty with us. Wherefore we
set sail with the wind at N.W. and plied up towards Machian. The channel
between Bachian, Machian, Tidore, and Ternate, stretches N. by W. and S.
by E. and is six leagues across in its narrowest part. In the morning of
the 15th, we passed between Gilolo, otherwise called Batta-china and
Caia, our latitude at noon being 0 deg. 17' N. so that Machian was not truly
placed on our chart, in which the equator is made to pass through its
middle, whereas we found it five leagues more to the northwards.
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