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 1819 we kept between the Islands of Savu and Oc_ ,.---. we found no perceptible. current against us, al- though the wind was constantly.from the S.E. o is. On the 9.6th the contents of one O f.our remain- ing casks of water was'found to be so bad, that it could not be used for any purpos.e; upon. ex- amination, it turned out that the cask had bee constructed- at Port Jackson of the stave-0f ok[ salt-provision barrels. This lo'ss[."..a.u:ting..to' two days' water, W.e could but.. i 's/.'.r '!-t-.w.?_or.' although it had a tarry. taste, .was acceptable in our present circtunstances. .  Th next mornillg was .lm. A small c0st- ing prca was seen to the northward, but soon'- afterwards lost sight of, steering towards Timor. . At daylight (28.th) land was seen, bearing E.N.; at noon our latitude was 9 � 3'2Y; .and, by the morning and evening sights for the chro- nometers, a current had set us to the N. 81 � at nearly one mile and a quarter per hour. The wind, hanging between S.E. and S.S.E., pre- vented our tacking to the southward to get out of the current, which, on our first experie.cing it, was thought to have been occasioned by a set through the strait .of Rottee; it was, however, afterwards found that we were on the southern o,,,  Goolg[�

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