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From New Guinea to Batavia

Octr. 1770
Straits of Sunda

  1. To what Nation the Ship belongs & its Name.
  2. If it comes from Europe or any other place.
  3. From what place it lastly departed from.
  4. Where unto design'd to go.
  5. What & how many ships of the Dutch Compy. by departure from the last shore these lay'd & their names.
  6. Of one or more of these ships in Compy. with this is departed for this or any other place.
  7. If during the Voyage any particularity is hapned or seen.
  8. If not any ships in Sea, or the Straights of Sunda have seen or Hail'd in and which.
  9. If any other News worth of Attention at the place from whence the Ship lastly departed or during the voyage hapned. 

Batavia in the Castle
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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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