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Octr. 1770   Streights of Sunda

Observd it to be very various since we came into the streights  sometimes running with much greater violence than at others but setting almost if not quite continualy to the Westward  once only it was thought to have turnd to the Eastward for a few hours but that was never made sufficiently clear  this violence would sometimes alter very considerably several times in an hour. at night observd fire upon Pulo Tounda

7. Got the Land breeze in the Night as usual & saild with it till morn  when we were almost up with Wapping Isle calld by the Malays Pulo Tidong where we anchord & lay still   the current was pretty strong & brought with it great plenty of saw Sea sawdust among which were even here some leaves & other productions of the land  also many Cuttle Fish bones  Portugese men of war & other recrements of the Sea. in the afternoon we had a faint sea breeze which ran us very near the lengh of the third Island & then left us  so that the Current took hold of the ship unawares & had almost set her ashore on a small ledge of rocks  on which was not water enough for a small boat which we sent

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