On the 16th of June...they resolved to depart from there, since the season was passing, and they could only with great difficulty make any headway or run higher, while, besides, they had only two anchors and cables left.  They then shaped their course to westward for Aarnems land.  At noon they took the latitude of 13 deg. 3’ South course held as before.

On the 17th of June in the forenoon the wind was E. by S. and E.S.E. with a moderate and fresh top-gallant gale, stiffening to a reefed topsail gale.  At noon their estimated course and distance performed in the last 24 hours were W. by N. 251/2 miles; estimated Latitude 12 deg. 44’ South; Latitude taken 12 deg. 36’ South; course held as before; no land in sight.

From the 18th to the 23rd their course was mainly westerly, with variable winds and good weather.

On the 24th of June the wind was S.E. by S., E.S.E. and S.E. by E. in the morning and forenoon, with a stiff reefed topsail-gale.  Shortly after noon they sighted the mainland of Nova Hollandia, S.S.W. of them, showing as a very low-lying coast; they passed over depths of 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, and 81/2 fathom, good anchoring ground and muddy sand, keeping a N.W. by W. course, since the shallows prevented them from running nearer to the land than where they could just sight it from the ship’s deck; they next got into 9, 10 and 11 fathom again as before, and dropped anchor at sunset.

On the 25th of June the wind was S.S.E. to S.E. in the morning and forenoon with a moderate top-gallant gale, a brightening sky and good weather.  At daybreak, as they were weighing anchor, the cable snapped off, and the buoy having disappeared, they thus lost their third anchor, so that they had only one left.  They therefore resolved to call at the island of Timor, and shaped their course to N.W. by W. over {Page 98} depths of 11, 10, 101/2 and 8 fathom; they next steered higher in order to get into deeper water, and thus passed over 12, 7, 8, 15, 9, 10, 12, 14, 13, 7, 5, 31/2, 4, 5, 6, afterwards running up to 20 fathom, muddy bottom.  At noon their estimated course and distance performed were N.W. by W. slightly Northerly, 51/2 Miles; their estimated latitude 11 deg. 30’ South; Latitude taken 11 deg. 37’ South; estimated distance from the land 9 or 91/2 miles.

They next shaped their course to north-west in these known waters, and on the 3rd of July following sighted the island of Rottie to westward of them...

The ship de Buys, having, as hereinbefore mentioned, put into the port of Banda on the 28th of March, and having there again been provided with all necessaries, set sail from there again on April 1, shaping her course to eastward.  On April 23 she sighted the land of Carpentaria, and the so-called Cape Keerweer, when she was in the observed latitude Of 12 deg. 58’ South, so that the land was found to be at least 12 miles more to eastward than it was believed to be.  They had sounded depths of 20, 18, 15, 13, 12, and 111/2 fathom, sandy bottom, at which last depth they came to anchor shortly after sunset.