The 18th, in lat. 15° 43' N. we had sight of an island called Pulo-cotan, being high land, and is about twenty leagues, according to report, from the shoal called _Plaxel_. In the morning of the 19th the coast of Cambodia was on our starboard side, about two leagues off, along which we steered S.E. by E. easterly, our latitude at noon being 13° 31' N. estimating the ship to be then athwart _Varella_. We have hitherto found the wind always _trade_ along shore, having gone _large_ all the way from Firando, the wind always following us as the land trended. The 20th at noon we were in latitude 10° 53', and three glasses, or an hour and half after, we had sight of a small island, which we concluded to be that at the end of the shoal called _Pulo-citi_. We found the book of _Jan Huyghens van Linschoten_ very true, for by it we have directed our course ever since we left Firando. The 22d we had sight of _Pulo Condor_ about five leagues off, our latitude at noon being 8° 20' N. About four a.m. on the 25th we made the island of _Pulo Timon_, and two hours afterwards saw _Pulo Tinga_. The 28th at three p.m. we had oosy ground at twenty fathoms, having divers long islands on our starboard and sundry small islands on our larboard, forming the straits of China-bata, which we found to be truly laid down in a chart made by a Hollander called _Jan Janson Mole_, which he gave to Mr Hippon, who gave it to the company. _Pulo Bata_, one of these islands, is low land, and is full of trees or bushes at the S.W. end. A little before noon on the 29th, we perceived the colour of the water a-head of the ship to change very much, by which observation we escaped an imminent danger. This shoal seemed of a triangular shape, the S.W. end being the sharpest, and is not far from the entrance into the straits of _China-bata_. At noon our latitude was 4° 6' N. At eight p.m. we came to anchor in seven fathoms, the weather threatening to be foul in the night, the place very full of shoals, and our experience little or nothing. Before our anchor took hold, we had six 1/4, five 1/2, six, and then seven fathoms, soft sandy ground.