Winter Now Coming On, With Much Tempestuous Weather, We Directed Our Course For The Islands Of Pulo Pinao:[19] It Is To Be Noted That Pulo, In The Malayan Language, Signifies Island.

We arrived there early in June, and came to anchor in a very good harbour between three islands.

At this time our men were very sick, and many of them fallen; and we determined to remain here till the winter were well over. This place is in lat. 5 deg. 15' N. and about five leagues from the main land, between Malacca and Tanaserim, belonging to Pegu.

[Footnote 18: Probably the islands now called Pulo Brasse, and Pulo Way. - E.]

[Footnote 19: Most probably the same with Pulo Pinang, now called Prince of Wales's Island: the Portuguese orthography being used in the text, in which language ao, or rather aom, as in the next section, has oar sound of ang. - E.]

We remained at this place till the end of August, our refreshments being very small, consisting only of oysters, growing on the rocks, great wilks, or conchs, and a few fish, which we took with hooks and lines. We landed our sick upon one of these uninhabited islands, for the sake of their health, yet twenty-six of them died here, among whom was John Hall, our master, and Rainald Golding, a merchant of much honesty and discretion. There are abundance of trees in these islands of white wood, so tall and straight as to be well fitted for masts, being often an hundred feet long.

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