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1. We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the straits of Madagascar but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west from the beginning of December to the beginning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence and more westerly than usual, continuing so for twenty days together during which time we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2d of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm whereat I was not a little rejoiced.
2. But first they resolved to sell the goods in the ship, and then go to Madagascar for recruits, several among them having died since my confinement.