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 . N. 83 �The wind then fell and eered'to lv. a SoS.E., but towards evening freshened from S.E. and S.E.b.S.; by eight'o'clock we steered a n. $,W. course,. and passed the islands of Saw and Benjoar; he breeze then freshening vered round w the eastward, and bronght on heavy rain with much thunder and lightning. �' After passing the meridian of Sandelwood Island, the' wind varied between north and south lz-l' by way of east, often suddenly changing eight or 'ten, and sometimes thirteell points of the Conlpass at once. ',IS., On the 15th we were, at noon, in latitude 15' 14' 7", and longitude 115 � when the wind changed to W.N.W. and cleared up the wea. ',her: it then gradually veered round by S.W. and .S.W, to the south. east trade. sl. At noon on the 21st we had reached the lati. tude assigned to the Tryal Rocks by the Dutch sloop, v/,, 19 � 30"; our long/tude Was 108 �' '36". Other accounts place these rocks in /20 �; we therefore stood on with caution, for the wind and the currents to the TqoW. were too strong for us to lie to with safety for the night. . At two a.m, being in latitude 20 � 14 �and longitude 107 � 36" we sounded without ,..: uccess with ninety fathoms of line, and at four o'clock, having ran seven mile on a S,W.b. So

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