ORIENTAL NAVIGATOR;

OR,

NEW DIRECTIONS

FOR

SAILING TO AND FROM THE

EAST INDIES, CHINA,

NEW HOLLAND,

&c. &c. &c.

ALSO FOR THE USE OF THE

COUNTRY SHIPS, TRADING IN THE INDIAN AND CHINA SEAS,
PACIFIC OCEAN, &c. &c. &c.

Collected from the

MANUSCRIPTS, JOURNALS, MEMOIRS, & OBSERVATIONS,

OF THE

MOST EXPERIENCED OFFICERS IN THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE,
OR COMMANDERS OF SHIPS IN THE COUNTRY TRADE;

FROM THOSE OF

FOREIGN NAVIGATORS ACQUAINTED WITH THE INDIAN AND EASTERN SEAS;

And from the last Edition of the

VILLETTE.

FRENCH NEPTUNE ORIENTAL, BY MONS. D'APRES DE MANEVILLE

BEING A NECESSARY COMPANION TO THE

COMPLETE EAST INDIA PILOT,

IN TWO LARGE VOLUMES OF CHARTS AND PLANS,

LATELY REVISED, AND GREATLY AUGMENTED.

Joseph Huddet
r

SECOND EDITION-WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.

Sonson &

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY

ROBERT LAURIE AND JAMES WHITTLE,

MAP, CHART, & PRINTSELLERS,

No. 53, FLEET-STREET.

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GENERAL Remarks upon the Prevailing Winds and Weather; by a late Commander in the fer-

vice of the Eaft India Company-On Trade-Winds,
Winds in high latitudes,

Directions for failing from England to the Cape of Good Hope-of the prevailing Winds in the Atlantic
and Ethiopic Oceans,

-for failing from the British Channel towards Porto Santo, Madeira, the Canaries, the Cape
Verd Islands, and to the Equinoctial Line,

for going to the Coast of Brazil, and for failing from thence to the Cape of Good Hope-
Isle of Fernand de Noronha-Portuguese Island of Afcenfion-Rio Janeiro-Ifle of Trinidad-Ifles
of Tristan da Cunha-Gough's Ifland, &c. ....

Extracts of Captain Gough's Journal, March 3d, 1732,

Ofterly's Journal, March 27th, 1758,

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42

The Cape of Good Hope-Directions for going into and out of Table Bay-Saldanha Bay,
Description of Falfe Bay, and directions for failing into and out of Simon's or Seaman's Bay,
The Cape and Bank of Agulhas or Lagullas-Instructions for fhips bound outwards or homewards, 46
Instructions for failing round the Cape of Good Hope, towards India and China,

Islands and Dangers to the Southward and to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope,
Outward Paffage-Directions for the passage to the Isles of St. Paul and Amsterdam,

The Ifles of St. Paul and Amfterdam,

Directions for the Paffage from the parallel of St. Paul and Amsterdamn, or from those Islands to
Java Head; and for the Paffage of the Straits eastward of Java to China-Account of the prevailing
Winds,

.....

Dangers to the Eastward and North-eastward of the Ifles of St. Paul and Amfterdam-Cloates Ifland
-The Danish Rock-Houtman's Abrolhos-The Tryal Rocks-Coco or Keeling's Ilands, and
Christmas Island, .....

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49

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56.

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General Directions for the Course from the Cape of Good Hope to India by the Ifle of France or Mau-
ritius-Instructions for failing into Diego Rais, or Ifle Rodrigue, and into Mauritius-Shoal to the
Southward of Madagascar,

Inner Paffage-Description of the Coast of Africa from Cape Lagullas to Cape Correntes-Struys
Bay-Flesh Bay-Fish Bay-Mossel Bay-Algoa Bay, &c.

Remarks on Moffel, Plettemberg, and Algoa, of Zevartkoep's River and Bays on the south-east Coast
of Africa; by Lieutenant William M' Pherson Rice, of the Royal Navy,

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74

The Coaft, River, and Port of Natal-Coaft of Fumos-Da Lagoa Bay-Cape Correntes, &c.
Description of the Coast between Cape Correntes and Mozambique-Cape St. Sebastian-Sofala-Ilhas
Primeiras-Angoxa Islands-Mozambique, &c. .......

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80

Description of the Coaft of Africa from Mozambique to the Equinoctial Line-Querimba Islands-
Cape Delgado-Quiloa-Zanzibar-Mombass-Bay Formofa-Patta, &c.

84

Directions for the Channel of Mozambique, or the Inner Paffage-Western Coast of Madagascar-
Winds and Currents-Baffas de India-Europa Rocks, &c. ......

88

Inftructions for failing into St. Auguftin's Bay, and thence to the Comoro Islands-Chesterfield Shoal
-St. Chriftopher's, John de Nova and Coffin's Islands-Shoals feen by Captain James Urmston, and
Captain John Hall, ...........

Remarks on a Shoal on which the Taunton Caftle, James Urmfton, Commander, grounded in the
Mozambique Channel,

Extract from Captain John Hall's Journal of the Worcester, toward Bombay in 1790,.....................
The Comora Islands, and Directions for failing into their Roads-Comoro-Mohilla-Mayotta
-Johanna-Dangers to the Eastward and Westward of the Comora Islands,

Paffage from the Comoro Inlands to the Laccadive or Lake-divas, and the Nine Degrees (called alfo
Eight Degrees) and Ten Degrees Channels-Iflands and Shoals in the Paffage,
Of the Winds which prevail in the Eastern Seas,

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The Periodical Winds or Monfoons-The South-weft Monfoon-The Currents,

The North-eaft Monfoon,

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The Monfoons on the Coaft of Coromandel, and other places of the Bay of Bengal-The South-west
or Weft Monfoon-The Currents, .........

The Monfoons, and fhiftings of the Currents in the Bay of Bengal; by a Bengal Pilot,
The South-weft Monfoon in the Gulf of Siam, and in the China Seas,

The Monsoons and Currents to the South of the Equator,
The Land and Sea-Breezes,

Description of the Archipelago of Islands and Dangers which extend to the Eaft and North-East of

Madagascar, extracted chiefly from Mr. D'Après,
The Chagas Archipelago-Diego Rays Iflands, &c.
The Islands Adu and Candu-London's Bank, &c.

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Directions for the Paffage to India, by the Eaft of Madagascar, while the South-eaft Monfoon prevails in the
Indies--Description of the Eastern Coast of Madagascar--Fort Dauphin--Foul Point--Antongil Bay,&c. 133
Description of the Coaft of Africa, from the Equinoctial Line to Cape Guardafui, and Ifle of Socotra 138
Defcription of the Coaft of Africa to the Weftward of Cape Guardafui, and of the Coast of Arabia
from Cape Aden to the Straits of Babel Mandel; from the French Neptune Oriental,
The Red Sea or Gulf of Arabia--Inftructions for coming into the Red Sea, and going to Moka,
with a description of the African and Arabian Coafts,

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Directions for failing from Cape Guardafui to Babel Mandel, and through the Straits; by Captain
Norton Hutchinfon of the Doddington, 1753,

Extract of the Journal of the Latham, bound up the Red Sea to Jeddah in 1758,
Directions for failing from the Malabar fide of India to the Red Sea-

1° From Bombay or Surat, on the Northern part of the Coast,

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2o From Anjengo, Cochin, Calicut, &c. on the Southern part of the Coast............ 149
Defcription of the Coaft of Arabia between Aden and Morebat-Macula Bay-Kiffeen-Cape Fartafh
Dofar, &c. chiefly from Mr. D'Apres, .......
.... 151
Defcription of the Coast of Arabia between Dofar and Mazeira Ifland, by Captain John Smith of the
King's Ship San Carlos, 1781, with the run from that Coaft to Bombay-Remarks of Lieute-
nant George Lewis, Commander of the Prudence armed ordnance ftore-fhip, 1782-Remarks on
Mazeira Ifland, from the Journal of the Royal Admiral, Captain David Simmonds, 1772, ....... 153