#90 cook's FIRST VOYAGE OCT. 



mitted to sleep in this private bouse occasionally, as 

 a guest to the person who hired it, under a penalty; 

 but almost every Dutchman that went by ran in 

 without any ceremony, to ask what they sold, there 

 having been very seldom any private persons at Ba- 

 tavia who had not something to sell. Every body 

 here hires a carriage, and Mr. Banks hired two. 

 They are open chaises, made to hold two people, 

 and driven by a man sitting on a coach-box ; for 

 each of these he paid two rix-dollars a-day. 



As soon as he was settled in his new habitation, he 

 sent for Tupia, who till now had continued on board 

 upon account of his illness, which was of the bilious 

 kind, and for which he had obstinately refused to 

 take any medicine. He soon came ashore, with his 

 boy Tayeto, and, though while he was on board, and 

 after he came into the boat, he was exceedingly 

 listless and dejected, he no sooner entered the town 

 than he seemed to be animated with a new soul. 

 The houses, carriages, streets, people, and a multi- 

 plicity of other objects, all new, which rushed upon 

 him at once, produced an effect like the sudden and 

 secret power that is imagined of fascination. Tayeto 

 expressed his wonder and delight with still less re- 

 straint, and danced along the street in a kind of 

 extasy, examining every object with a restless and 

 eager curiosity, which was every moment excited 

 and gratified. One of the first things that Tupia 

 remarked, was the various dresses of the passing 

 multitude, concerning which he made many en- 

 quiries ; and when he was told that in this place 

 where people of many different nations were assem- 

 bled, every one wore the habit of his country, he 

 desired that he might conform to the custom, and 

 appear in that of Otaheite. South Sea cloth was 

 therefore sent for from the ship, and he equipped 

 himself with great expedition and dexterity. The 

 people who had seen Otourou, the Indian who had 

 been brought hither by M. Bougainville, enquired 



