Saturday 29.

I therefore again stood for the Straits of Mangaryn which we ran through in the afternoon of the 29th, being favoured with a fresh breeze from the south-south-east.  On our first entering the straits we got close to the Flores shore:  our course through was north half east.  We tried for soundings but could not anywhere find bottom at 25 and 30 fathoms depth.  On the Flores side there are many good harbours and bays where vessels may anchor; but the country hereabouts appears burnt up and desolate.

I had no azimuth-compass and consequently could not observe very accurately the variation; but I believe there is so little in Mangaryn Straits that no great error will be occasioned by considering the true and magnetic bearings to be the same.

When we had passed the straits we kept to the westward, running along the north side of the island Sumbawa, where there is a very high mountain near the coast, at the foot of which I am informed, are many runs of good water, conveniently situated for ships to supply themselves.  The latitude of the north part of Sumbawa I make by my observations and bearings to be 8 degrees 6 minutes south, which differs very little from the Dutch charts.

Monday 31.

In the night of the 31st several prows were rowing about us, on which account we kept all night under arms.

September.  Thursday 3.

This and the two following days we were sailing along the north side of the island Lombok, on which is a high mountain.  Most of the islands in this route are distinguished by high mountains.  Lombok appears to be well clothed with wood.  In the nights we saw fires upon the high lands at a distance from the coast.

Sunday 6.

In the afternoon we saw the high land of Cape Sandana, which is the north-east part of Java.

Monday 7.

The next day we were off cape Sandana which is a low cape projecting from the high land already mentioned.  This cape is placed by the Dutch maps in 7 degrees 52 minutes south.  But according to my observation and our estimated distance from the land I make it in 7 degrees 46 minutes south latitude.  The longitude by my dead reckoning from Coupang to Cape Sandana was 11 degrees 33 minutes west.

Thursday 10.

We steered to the westward along the coast of Java and on the 10th at noon we anchored off Passourwang, a Dutch settlement on the coast of Java, in two fathoms, distant from the shore half a league, the entrance of the river bearing south-west.  The coast hereabouts so is shoal that large ships are obliged to anchor three or four miles from the land.  As soon as we were at anchor I got in my boat and went on shore.  The banks of the river near the entrance were mud, on which grew a few mangrove bushes.  Among them we saw hogs running and many were laying dead in the mud, which caused a most intolerable stench and made me heartily repent having come here; but after proceeding about a mile up the river, the course of which was serpentine, we found a very pleasant country and landed at a small and well-constructed fort, where I was received in a friendly and polite manner by M. Adrian van Rye, the commandant.  By the return of the boat I sent on board a small bullock and other provisions.  I likewise took a pilot to conduct us to Sourabaya.