nine leagues off, with low land to the westwards.  From Pulo Condor till we had sight of this coast, the current set E. by N. At this time we had 12 f. on streamy ground.  The 7th at noon, we were in lat. 10 deg. 42’ N. having run from the former noon twenty-five leagues N.E. 1/2 N. and found that the current had carried us ten leagues to the N. of our computation.  Our depths were in these twenty-four hours, from 12, to 16, 20, and 24 f. and then back to 20, 18, 16, 14, on sandy ground.

From the before-mentioned two hummocks, as we coasted along, about eight leagues from the land, sometimes more, and sometimes less, we saw high land all the way in the inland country, and a smooth land in most places by the sea side, about the height of the Lizard, with many plots upon it resembling white sand, as well as the sea side.  The first of these white spots was on a point ten leagues W. of Cape Cessier, which we at first thought had been a town with fair white houses and white walls.  This day, at noon, being the 7th, when in the lat. of 10 deg. 48’ N. that Cape bore from us about six leagues W.N.W. 1/2 W. At noon of the 8th, we were in lat. 11 deg. 30’ N. having gone twenty leagues N.E. 1/2 N. from noon of the 7th.  From the 8th, till noon of the 9th, we steered along shore N.N.E. sixteen leagues, N. by E. six leagues, N. six leagues, and N. by W. nine leagues, making our course in all N. by E. 1/3 E. thirty-six leagues.  We now had Cape Varella[279] W.S.W. eight leagues off, and were in the lat. of 13 deg. 13’ N. This cape is called Jentam by the Chinese, signifying a chimney in their language, because it has a sharp hummock on the top of the hill, much like a chimney on the top of a house.  From noon of the 9th, till noon of the 10th, our course was N. two-thirds W. twenty-six leagues; our latitude on the 10th being 14 deg. 30’ N. when we were about ten leagues from the land.

[Footnote 279:  Cape Verelly is in lat. 12 deg. 40’ N. on the coast of Cochin China—­E.]

The 11th, at noon, we were in lat. 16 deg. 10’ N. having run, from the foregoing noon, thirty-three one-third leagues due N. Next noon, the 12th, we had made other twenty-six leagues, N.N.E. 1/2 N. and were in latitude 17 deg. 40’ N. the current having set us six leagues to the N. of our computation.  This evening, at six, we descried the island of Aynam, [Hainan] its high land bearing N.W. by N. twelve leagues, and we had run from noon seven leagues N.E.  From hence, till noon of the 13th, our course was N.E. by E. twenty-two leagues, and we were then in lat. 18 deg. 30’ N. We this morning chased a Portuguese frigate, but she was so light that we could not get near her.  The 14th, at noon, we were in 19 deg. 35’ N. our course having been these twenty-four hours N.E. twenty-six leagues, the current having carried us four leagues to the N. of our reckoning; and yet this day at noon, in seventy-three f. on ooze, our boats found no current at all.  We here saw