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 TO THE COAST OF NEW HOLLAND. 167

many new names, which coukl not possibly be found in the limited compass of the Company's former charts. According to their own accounts, they have only been able to visit a strip of land of about sixty miles along the coast E. and W., including merely a very small portion of that great bay, which it was recommended to them to sail over and explore as much as possible.

The daily courses, winds, currents, depths, reefs, sound- ings, variations of the compass, and the like observations, more especially depending upon the art of the steersman, are to be found in the above-mentioned journals, and shall here be passed over as out of place, in a compendious report like the present. We shall here principally follow the log- book of the skipper Martin van Delft, of the Vossenhosch, and that of the under steersman Andries Roseboom, of the sloop Waijer, as the journals of the captain of the patsjallang, Pieter Fredericks of Hamburg, and of the steersman of the Vossenhosch, nowithstanding their general usefulness, do not afford any additional information, as they merely describe the same subject.

Besides the journals, some depositions and other papers of the same kind have reached us, referring to the loss of anchors, ropes, sails, the courses and bearings of the ship as recorded on board the Vossenhosch, none of them however of a nature to call for further observation here. At the same time we cannot omit to mention two papers, written by the cap- tain of the patsjallang, and entered in the register of Banda, under the letters D. E., containing brief notes of the ship's course, the names of, and dates of departure from, the places visited during the voyage, together with the currents en- countered, which documents could be forwarded to you, if desired, together with the above-mentioned journals of the skipper of the Vossenhosch, and the captain of the Waijer, and the new maps, should they arrive here from Macassar, since the maps of the patsjallang have not been drawn up