Voyages to the East-Indies, Vol. 2: Containing a Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, Samarang, Macasser, Amboyna, and Surat, With Accounts of ... In the Years 1774 and 1775 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Voyages to the East-Indies, Vol. 2: Containing a Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, Samarang, Macasser, Amboyna, and Surat, With Accounts of Those Places; In the Years 1774 and 1775

As foon as we were on board, we (cut for the pilot, and the matter of the Com pany's pilot-boy who thinking the oppor tunity for failing a favourable one, we weighed anchor at ten o'clock, and fet fail. Prefently after, the pilot-boy, by bad ma nagement, run athwart our bow, fo that we were in great danger of doing, or receiving, damage, or of being forced aground, upon the flat called the Hoot, or ball. Fortunately, however, we got away from each other, without either of us receiving any damage of confideration.

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