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From New Guinea to Batavia
Octr. 1770 Straits of Sunda
Batavia in the Castle the By Order of the Governour General & the Counselors of India J Brander Bungl Leot.
The first & fourth of these Questions I only answer'd which when the Officer saw, he made use of the very same words the other had done before /Viz./ that we might write what we pleased for it was of no consequence &ct. & yet he immediately said that he must send that very paper away to Batavia by water & that it would be thereby tomorrow noon, which shews that the Governor. & Counselors of India look upon such papers to be of some consequence. Be this as it may, my reasons for taking notice of it in this Journal, is because I am well inform'd that it is but of very late years that the Dutch have taken upon them to examine all Ships that pass these Straights. At 10 o'Clock we weigh'd with a light breeze at SW but did little more that stem the Current at Noon. Bantam Point & Pula Baba in one bearing EbN, distant from the Point 1½ Mile Latde. observed 5:58 So.
Saturday 6th At 2 o'Clock PM finding we could not stem the Current we anchor'd with the Kedge Anchor under Bantam Point where we lay until 9 at which time current made Slowly to the Eastward & at the same time a light breeze springing up at SE we weigh'd & stood to the East until 10 o'Clock in the AM when the Current oblig'd us.
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