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 'COASTS OS' AusrltALIA, 337 edge. of the. current that sets 'to the westward, mo. down the north coast of Timor, and that be. Oct. tween ]ottee and Sau the current is of trifling consequence. The next morning land was again indistinctly seen b.r/ng E. 1 S. At ten a.m, it was leady visible, as we[[ as a peaked hill, which bore .'E.. .'.e were now in a current setting /tpidl ..ttth/.westward,. and soon lost a great 'porCh. f.e'.g.ound that we had been so long
 * to/}'ln '. �In the evening'th wind veering

. to E.S.E:,' enabled 'us to steer to the southward, and to get out of the infi/ence of the current. From tis t the 31st we had made little pro- so-st �gress .to the' eastward; but in the afternoon t breeze set in from W.S.W., and brightened our prospects: our water being now ndarly expended no t/me was to be lost, and we steered for the Strait of lttee, in order to pass th.rough that of Samow; but the wind was'so light that, not being sufficiently advanced before dark, we bore up, and passed round the west side of ?ulo Samow, with a, breeze from S.E., which con- t/nued during the night, and, by daylight, had eartied us near the north-west end of the island; at nine a.m. the sea breeze set in from S.W. and West, and gradually increasing, we happily suc- ceeded in arriving off the town of Coepang,

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