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Excerpt from The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1845: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected With Maritime Affairs After being detained here sixteen days refitting, &c., &c., I tried to beat up, both the Middle and Palawan Passage for hung-kong, but failed, from having a constant run of foul wind and current against me. So I ran through the Balabac Passage, very fairly laid down in the charts, (although on far too small a scale) into the Sooloo Sea. And stood over for Mindanao, fetching the Cagayan Sooloo Group, placed out of all true position, skirting Mindanao, Negros, and Pansy, at which last island I anchored in Antique bay; Point Nasog bearing and the fort distant one mile, but the fort one mile and a half or two miles 06 on the same bearings would be better, ll foul ground projects considerably out from the governor's house just within the fort. Eight fathoms water and good clean holding ground was found here. But this bay, and all others along the west side of these islands, are only fit to enter in the north-east monsoon, when the weather and scenery of these fine islands produce the bean ideal of all that is beautiful to the mind, or pleasing to the eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.