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I know not how, but exactly ressembling the flash of a Musquet so much so, that those who remain'd in the ship were much alarm'd.
From this place than we saild immediately, & passing by Islands which by their situation we judged to be Arrow & Timor Laut we arriv'd in sight of Timor; from whence passing between Rote, & Simau, [Sumba] we fell in wth. a small Island call'd Savu: here we Came to an anchor, & bought from ye Natives Sheep, Goats, Buffaloes &c. the first we had met since we left Rio de janeiro. Then Passing along the south side of Java, & into the Streights of Sunda, we arriv'd at Batavia on the 9th of October, where we resolv'd to repair well our ship which had suffer'd when laying on ye Rocks on the Coast of New South Wales, as we Call'd it very materially.
Tho' we had been remarkably Healthy, through the great Variety of climates which we had pass'd before, yet the uncommon Malignity of ye air of Batavia so fatal to Europeans, was not the less Terrible