A D r a u g h t o f
B o s T h a i s ' B a y
situated about 30 Leagues to ti> i
$ a o f M a c a s s a r m Abe
Is laud of Ce l e b e s .
L o t. s „ 3A S f
R O U N B T H E W O RLD,
alfo, that he had confiderable property in England, being a 1767-
* * ■ " , December.
denifon of that country ; “ and, faid the Shebander, he has c.--------
alfo money in my hands, with which I will purchafe lach ~Tld 7 l8‘
“ things as you want from Macaflar, and fee that they are
“ fent after you.” Having fpecified what thefe articles were
to be, and agreed with him for' th'ë quantity'and the price,
we parted. '■
The next day, in the afternoon, I received a letter, figned Saturday 19,
by the Governor and Council of Macaflar, containing the
reafons why I was fent to Bonthain, and confirming the verbal
agreement which fubfifted between us.
Soon a fte r,, the Enfign M. le Cerf, the Secretary o f the
Council, and a pilot, came.on board to attend us to Bonthain.
Le Cerf was to command the foldicrs who were on
board the guard-boats; and the Secretary, as we afterwards
difcovered, was to he a check’ upon the refident, whole
name was'Swellihgrabel. This Gentleman’s father died
Second Governor at the Cape o f Good Hope, where he married
an Eriglifli lady Qf the name of Fothergill. Mr. Swel-
lingrabel, the Ildidcnt here, married the daughter o f Cornelius
Sinkclaar, who had been Governor of Macaflar, and
died about two years ago in England, having come hither
to fee fome o f his mother’s relations.
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