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

Celebes.

at the southwest of Deselem lies; subsequently deviating from this island, we set our course north-northwest along the western side of Deselem and reached 6 degrees 10 minutes, and sailed 18 miles westward; thus we came near the bank that lies at the southwest end of Celebes modern-day Sulawesi, the outermost corner of which lies to the west of the bank at 6 degrees; having passed this, we proceeded further westward.

Arrive back before Bantam.

On the 16th of August, we again came to anchor at the roadstead of Bantam.

And depart from there for home.

On the 6th of October, we set sail from here with the Draak and the Ascension.

A sunken island.

On the 15th of November, we were at a latitude of 31 degrees 48 minutes, having the wind north-northwest, with thick and misty weather. On that same day, around 10 o'clock in the morning, we arrived within a ship's length of a reef or sunken island, where the water was brownish and muddy, and in some places bluish; when we were a ship's width or 2 away from it, we saw the water to the side of the ship as black and thick as if it were earth or coarse sand being thrown up from it. The variation here is 21 degrees, decreasing from the north to the west.

The Land of Ethiopia.

On the 16th of December, we had 9 miles west, and the latitude of 34 degrees 20 minutes. At that time, we saw the land of Ethiopia a historical term often referring to the African coast near the Cape, by estimation 12 miles or thereabouts away from us. On the 26th, we...

Cape of Good Hope.

were at 34 degrees 30 minutes, and thus at the latitude and in sight of the Cape of Good Hope, not even a mile from it; therefore we took our course north-northwest and north, according to how the land lies around the Cape.

Saldania.

On the 27th, we came to anchor at the roadstead of Saldania, where we found the Draak, our Admiral, and the Hector; the former had arrived there 7 days earlier, after having been tossed back and forth about 4 miles from the Cape of Good Hope, having no more than 10 men left on board; all his other crew had passed away, numbering 53 who had died since their departure from Bantam, and that in the span of 9 months. The Susanna had become separated from them 3 months after they had departed from Bantam, and nothing had been heard of her since. Here we came to anchor in 7 fathoms of water, having the low point to the northwest by west, and the Sugar Loaf a descriptive name for a mountain, likely Lion's Head south-southwest and half a point toward the west; the point of Penguin Island original: "Pengwins Eyland" northwest by north, the mountain between the Sugar Loaf and the lower or low point, west-southwest.