Tweede scheeps-togt, van de Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy, onder den Hr. Hendrik Middleton, generaal,...

length; one must do so because one has about 20 fathoms of water there; subsequently, one must stay on the same side about a cable's length from that island, where one then encounters shallower water, namely 8, 7, and 6 fathoms, and where it is narrowest, 5 fathoms, which depth one keeps until one reaches the roadstead. Thus, with God's help, one can enter there, provided one keeps close to the mentioned island; on the starboard side, as one enters the strait, it is somewhat shallow, but that reveals itself clearly. There are 2 small islands, one is called The islands Puloway and Pulorin. Puloway, the other Pulorin, which lie about 3 miles westward as one enters the strait; one is in no danger from them, as one easily becomes aware of them; one can leave them, whether one is entering or exiting, on either side as one wishes.

Around the middle of March, we found Steady winds of 4, 5, 3 months. the wind quite variable here, which remained so until the middle of April, from which time it remains, to our best knowledge, between east and southeast for 4 months: but the inhabitants there told us that it usually remains that way for 5 months, just as it is between west and northwest for 5 months thereafter, and the 2 remaining months are variable. Here, by the dark of the moon, there is much misty and rainy weather. We stayed at Banda for 21 weeks and 6 days, during which time we had 11 deaths, mostly from the loop dysentery/flux.

On the 21st of July, Sunday, we set sail from Banda with an east-southeasterly wind and set our course westward. On the 22nd, Burro. we reached the southern side of Burro modern-day Buru, Indonesia; the wind as above. On the 27th, at the height of Deselem, Deselem. near the south end of the island, leaving 7 islands on the port side. We held our course northward, close to the main island of Deselem, to keep ourselves clear of a small island and a sandbank that...