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Off Great Solombo. Never was there a more tedious passage than ours has been from Singapore. Sailing from that place on the 20th of November, we have encountered a succession of calms and light winds creeping some days a few miles, and often lying becalmed for forty-eight hours without a breath to fill the sails.
We continued to steer west-south-west, and, for about fourteen leagues, we crossed a flat of sixteen fathoms. At midnight on the 21st, we saw an island bearing west-north-west three or four miles distant; this we supposed to be the island of Solombo; its latitude is 5° 42' south, and the longitude 114° 24' east.
This island is well laid down: from the sea we made its longitude 113° 31'; Horsburgh gives it 113° 28', which, considering that both observations were made afloat, is a near enough approximation. The land is low, with a single hill, showing round from the westward, flat or wedge-shaped from the eastward. The smaller Solombo is low: both wooded. "10th. In sight of Laurots islands. "11th.
A calm now keeps us off the greater Solombo, which it is my intention to visit when in my power. "8th. Drifted past Solombo in the calm, and, reluctant to return, I continued on my voyage with a light breeze from the eastward.
On the 30th, at ten in the forenoon, we saw the great -Solombo bearing north by west half west two leagues distant. On sounding, we struck the ground with 32 fathoms, over an oozy bottom. The next morning, the island of Lubeck- bore from south 14° west to south 55° west, five leagues distant. This island is considerably misplaced in the charts.
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