At the south-west end of Timor is a pretty high island called Anabao.  It is about ten or twelve leagues long and about four broad; near which the Dutch are settled.  It lies so near Timor that it is laid down in our charts as part of that island; yet we found a narrow deep channel fit for any ships to pass between them.  This channel is about ten leagues long and in some places not above a league wide.  It runs north-east and south-west, so deep that there is no anchoring but very nigh the shore.  There is but little tide; the flood setting north and the ebb to the southward.  At the north-east end of this channel are two points of land not above a league asunder; one on the south side upon Timor, called Kupang; the other on the north side, upon the island Anabao.  From this last point the land trends away northerly two or three leagues, opens to the sea, and then bends in again to the westward.

Kupang bay.  Fort Concordia.

Being past these points you open a bay of about eight leagues long and four wide.  This bay trends in on the south side north-east by east from the south point before mentioned; making many small points or little coves.  About a league to the east of the said south point the Dutch have a small stone fort, situated on a firm rock close by the sea:  this fort they call Concordia.  On the east side of the fort there is a small river of fresh water which has a broad boarded bridge over it, near to the entry into the fort.  Beyond this river is a small sandy bay where the boats and barks land and convey their traffic in or out of the fort.  About a hundred yards from the seaside, and as many from the fort, and forty yards from the bridge on the east side, the Company have a fine garden, surrounded with a good stone wall; in it is plenty of all sorts of salads, cabbages, roots for the kitchen; in some parts of it are fruit-trees, as jacas, pumplenose, oranges, sweet lemons, etc.  And by the walls are coconut and toddy-trees in great plenty.  Besides these they have musk and watermelons, pineapples, pomecitrons, pomegranates, and other sorts of fruits.  Between this garden and the river there is a pen for black cattle, whereof they have plenty.  Beyond the Company’s ground the natives have their houses, in number about fifty or sixty.  There are forty or fifty soldiers belonging to this fort, but I know not how many guns they have; for I had only opportunity to see one bastion, which had in it four guns.  Within the walls there is a neat little church or chapel.

A particular description of the bay.