The Oriental Navigator, Or, New Directions for Sailing to And From the East ...

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The Oriental Navigator, Or, New Directions for Sailing to And From the East ...
Joseph Huddart
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T F yoti are bound to thefe ftraits, in the weftcrly Monfoon, when the winds, throughout -*• the Bay of Bengal, blow from the fouthward, and the currents fet to the northward, the bcft courfe you can take, whether from the Coaft of Coromandel, or from Dondra head, in the iflc of Ceylon, is to make the iflands of Achcen i keeping, as much as poflible, in 5"^ 30' or 40' north latitude when you intend to put in at Acheen. But otherwife you muft pais by the little iflands to the northward of Poolo
...Brasse, and continue your courfe through the channel, between the north point of Poolo Way, and the rocks ^ of a league to the fouthward of Poolo Rondo.
Having doubled Poolo Way you proceed towards that part of the Coaft of Sumatra, between Point Pedro and Diamond Point. During this feafon it is not common to find fettled weather, fo as to make a diredl courfe. The wind hereabouts is very variable, and frequently blows from S. S. E. to E. S. E. in violent fqualls, which, by withftanding their fury, would drive you afliore, elpecially in a large fliip.


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