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resist nor fly. Malay servants were hired to attend 

 the sick, but they had so little sense either of duty or 

 humanity, that they could not be kept within call, and 

 the patient was frequently obliged to get out of bed 

 to seek them. On the 9th, we lost our poor Indian 

 boy Tayeto, and Tupia was so much affected, that 

 it was doubted whether he would survive till the 

 next day. 



In the mean time, the bottom of the ship being 

 examined, was found to be in a worse condition than 

 we apprehended : the false keel was all gone to with- 

 in twenty feet of the stern post ; the main keel was 

 considerably injured in many places ; and a great 

 quantity of the sheathing was torn off, and several 

 planks were much damaged ; two of them, and the 

 half of a third, under the main channel near the 

 keel, were, for the length of six feet, so worn, that 

 they were not above an eighth part of an inch thick, 

 and here the worms had made their way quite into 

 the timbers , yet in this condition she had sailed 

 many hundred leagues, where navigation is as dan- 

 gerous as in any part of the world : how much 

 misery did we escape, by being ignorant that so con- 

 siderable a part of the bottom of the vessel was 

 thinner than the sole of a shoe, and that every life 

 on board depended upon so slight and fragile a bar- 

 rier between us and the unfathomable ocean ! It 

 seemed, however, that we had been preserved only 

 to perish here ; Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander were so 

 bad, that the physician declared they had no chance for 

 recovery but by removing into the country ; a house 

 was therefore hired for them at the distance of about 

 two miles from the town, which belonged to the 

 master of the hotel, who engaged to furnish them 

 with provisions, and the use of slaves. As they had 

 already experienced their want of influence over 

 slaves that had other masters, and the unfeeling in- 

 attention of these fellows to the sick, they bought 

 each of them a Malay woman, which removed both 



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