*770, the Company’s warehoufe. For Englifh guineas we could
Deeembtr. 1 , . _ . . . . i never get more than nineteen millings upon an average j
for though the Chinefe would give twenty {hillings for fome
of the brighteft, they would give no more than feventeen
{hillings for thofe that were much worn.
It may perhaps be of fome advantage to ftrangers to be
told that there are two kinds of coin here, of the fame denomination,
milled and unmilled, and that the milled is of
moft value. A milled ducatoon is worth eighty ftivers 5 but
an unmilled ducatoon is worth no more than feventy-two.
All accounts are kept in rixdollars and ftivers, which, here at
leaft, are mere nominal coins, like our pound fterling. The
rixdollar is equal to forty-eight ftivers, about four {hillings,
and fix pence Englifh currency.
C H A P .
C H A P . XIII.
*The Paffage from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope ':
Some Account o f Prince s I f and and its Inhabitants, and
a comparative View o f their Language with the Malay
and favanefe.
ON Thurfday the 37th of December, at fix o’clock in the 1770.
morning, we weighed again and flood out to fea. Af- , ecember'.
ter much delay by contrary winds, we weathered Pulo Pare Thurfda>' z7-
on the 29th, and flood in for the main ; foon after we fetched Saturday 29.
a fmall iflarid under the main, in the midway between Batavia
and Bantam, called Maneater’s Ifland. The next day, Sunday 30.
we weathered firft Wapping Ifland, and then Pulo Babi. On
the 31ft, we flood over to the Sumatra Ihore; and on the Monday 31.
morning of New Year’s day, 1771, we flood over for the Java «77*-
0 January.
fllO re . ' Tuefday I.
We continued our courfe as the wind permitted us till
three o’clock in the afternoon of the 5th, when we anchored Saturday
under the fouth eaft fide of Prince’s Ifland in eighteen fathom,
in order to recruit our wood and water, and procure
refrefhments for the fick, many of whom were now become
much worfe than they were when we left Batavia. As foon
as the fhip was fecured, I went alhore, accompanied by Mr.
Banks and Dr. Solander, and we were met upon the beach by
fome Indians, who carried us immediately to a man, who,
they faid, was their King. After we had exchanged a few
compliments with his Majefty, we proceeded to bufinefs ; but
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