Ifland, on the eaft fide, (the water of which was very deep clofe'to the (hore) and Raid
there till the 16th. Here we were plentifully fupplied with turtle, and fine fiih of
different forts ; cocoa-nuts, plantains, mangoes, limes and lemons : alfo with deer
about the fize of a calf ; and a fort of fmaller deer about as large as a rabbit, which
ate much like them : a great quantity of poultry, with which the ifland abounds ;
young Indian corn, Tagareè, fugar, and fome ducks. Their turtles were very lean,
and far inferior to thofe we caught on the coaft o f New Holland, which I fuppofed
m;ght be owing to their having been kept long in crawles. We had alfo'very fine
water-melons, and bread-fruit, which would have been better had it not been fo
young.
This fide of the ¡(land is pretty high, and covered with wood, excepting plantations
of rice, upon which we faw feveral houfes. The other fide is plain flat
ground, and abounds with plantations of pifang, calappa, and òthèr fruits. The
people who are upon it have been there between three and four years, and came
from the main land of Java; and it is moft likely difpóiTefièd thè former inhabitants.
They are all Mahometans. It was the. month of Ramezan when we were
there, and in this month they never eat in the day-time. They have a Radia, or
king, who, indeed, is but a poor one. They wear a piece of cotton check' about
their waifts, which reaches to their knees, and another piece over their (boulders.
Their hair is very mean, and unlike that of the. Malays, which is very fine *.
* H ere ends S. Parkinfon’s joifrnal."
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C O N T I N U A T I O N
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J O U R N A L
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V O Y A G E to the S O U T H S E A S ,
In his Majefty’s Ship T h e E N D E A V O U R .
P A R T IV.
N the i 6th of January, we took our departure from this ifland and,
*^ ^ 0 a ^eW a^ter> diTorder with which feveral of our.company had
been attacked, and,died at Batavia and Cooper’s Ifland, began to rage
among us with great violence, and, in a few days, carried off Mr.
Charles Green, the aftronomer j Mr. Sydney Parkinfon, Mr. David Spoving, clerk
to Mr. Banks, and many of the common men. Mr. Green, being early feized
with a delirium, unfortunately left fome of bis minutes fo loofe and incorrect,
that it is feared it will be difficult to render them intelligible.
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