A voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan : including an account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other islands performed in the Tartar galley, belonging to the Honourable East India Company, during the years 1774, 1775, and 1776 ... To which is added, a vocabulary of the Magindano tongue / By Captain Thomas Forrest.

Thomas Forrest

Date:: 1779

Credit: A voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan : including an account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other islands performed in the Tartar galley, belonging to the Honourable East India Company, during the years 1774, 1775, and 1776 ... To which is added, a vocabulary of the Magindano tongue / By Captain Thomas Forrest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ah i774. “November. + Jy A VY OXY A Give at\fome convenient place thereabouts, that we might be two veffels in company. This pleafed him much, I] found he had a ftrong inclina- tion to vifit Batchian, the Sultan of which was his near’relation. ‘On Wednefday the 23d, we had moderate weather, and wefterly winds; fteered S. E. by E. feventy miles. At noon we were in the latitude of 4° 34, and one hundred and fifty miles eaft of the me- ridian of Tonkyl. This day we had many ripplings of currents, which I imputed to the monfoon’s changing. ‘On Thurfday the 24th, ‘we had fair weather; fteered S.'E. eighty miles: at noon our latitude was 3° 55° N. On friday the 25th, we had wefterly winds and fqually ‘weather. Ran under a foul weather mainfail, and iteered as beft {uited the vef- fel’s eafe, between the fouth and eaft, as the laboured much, and fhip- — ped water. Kept baling, as we had no pump, ¢very half huur. Many of the rattan lafhings were alfo found broke.* In the morning we faw the ifland of Sangit, appearing large and high; the body of it, bearing about north-eaft, was covered with clouds. We fteered to the northward of a clufter of five iflands, which lie to the fouthward of Sangir; the two principal are called Karakita and Palla, as I was informed by Abdaraman, one of Tuan Hadjee’s people, who had been there. Each of thefe two iflands may be about five or fix miles round. They are about three miles afunder, * The ends of the beams went through, or pierced the veffel’s fides ; the beams were tied to handles on the planks, which were nailed to the timbers, bearing$

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