On The 16th, All Being Ready, We
Started At Daybreak With Two New Anchors And Ten Rowers, Who
Understood Their Work.
By evening we had come more than half-way
to the point, and anchored for the night in a small bay.
At three
the next morning I ordered the anchor up, but the rattan cable
parted close to the bottom, having been chafed by rocks, and we
then lost our third anchor on this unfortunate voyage. The day
was calm, and by noon we passed the southern point of Gilolo,
which had delayed us eleven days, whereas the whole voyage during
this monsoon should not have occupied more than half that time.
Having got round the point our course was exactly in the opposite
direction to what it had been, and now, as usual, the wind
changed accordingly, coming from the north and north-west, - so
that we still had to row every mile up to the village of Gani,
which we did not reach till the evening of the 18th. A Bugis
trader who was residing there, and the Senaji, or chief, were
very kind; the former assisting me with a spare anchor and a
cable, and making me a present of some vegetables, and the latter
baking fresh sago cakes for my men; and giving rue a couple of
fowls, a bottle of oil, and some pumpkins. As the weather was
still very uncertain, I got four extra men to accompany me to
Ternate, for which place we started on the afternoon of the 20th.
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