This
Night We Steered N.N.E. To Get Through The Channel Between Lingan And
The N. End Of Banka, Having 23, 22, 20, 18, And 16 F. All Ooze, Till We
Came Near The Entrance, And Afterwards 15, 14, 13 F. In Going Through
The Passage.
Lingan rises at first in three islands, the northermost
being larger than both the other two, being near two leagues long and
full of hummocks.
Among these three islands there are certain fragments
of isles intermixed, like so many hay-cocks, which is a good mark
whereby to know these islands. From the smooth hill which is the north
end of Banka, to the south-westermost isle of Lingan, it is N. by W. ten
leagues. From the middle of the largest isle of Lingan, which is the
north-eastermost, there is another smooth island nine leagues off,
E.N.E. 1/2 N. From that there is another flat island, and off the north
point of the round smooth island, there is a little fragment like a
rock. In the fair way between this island and Lingan, there are 14 and
13 f. the course being midway between, and to the N. to pass along by
the E. side of Bintang. This day at noon, being the 12th May, our
latitude was 1 deg. S.[278] the greatest isle of the Lingan group being S.W.
from us five leagues, whence we estimated its latitude to be 1 deg. 10'
nearly.
[Footnote 278:
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