154 Adutnlures of Naufragtts. [AUG. 



" I was about to reply, when a cold aguish fit set my teeth chattering. I found, 

 too soon, it was the Batavia fever, the latent cause of which I had unconsciously 

 brought with me from that pestilential place, and which had now broken out upon 

 me. Endtfield instantly hired a bungalow, and procured me every requisite- 

 assistance ; but, for the space of six weeks, I was totally unconscious of surrounding 

 objects. The only sensation I was susceptible of, was that of burning with thirst, 

 and being stretched on a mossy bank beneath a waterfall, gaping wide to catch a 

 drop to cool my parched tongue, but the tormenting liquid rolling down, turned 

 aside s and still deceived me. My constitution got the better of the disease, and the 

 first day I was able to walk, I attempted to reach the habitation of my friend 

 Endtfield ; but, on my way, a Malay horseman, at full speed, knocked me down, 

 and galloping over me, continued his course. The natives flocked round, and 

 assisted me with the feelings of true Samaritans; but so great was the injury I had 

 sustained, that it was not until the expiration of another month, that I could again 

 venture abroad, when my appearance exactly resembled that of the Europeans I had 

 first seen on landing at Batavia." 



At this point, the groat length to which our review has gone compels us 

 to quit Naufragus; who, after a series of disappointments and miseries, 

 suddenly and unexpectedly acquires a competence (not, ho informs us, 

 from any kindness on the part of his relations) upon which ho is content 

 to live in England, and tempt fortune and the sea no more. 



Whoever he is, and who he is, we don't at all know : he has written a 

 very curious and interesting work which, moreover, ho very unpretend- 

 ingly prints in one volume while works of not a tithe of its value walk 

 about the world in three. There are some errors in the descriptions which 

 he gives of places and objects, and some statements he has taken too 

 hastily upon trust ; but the wonder rather is, in such a multiplicity of trans- 

 actions as he records, that he should have kept his account so evenly as he 

 has done. Our decided belief is, that the relation is a genuine one : there 

 are facts contained in it which an author, making a book, would not have 

 introduced; and some even which a man who was varnishing a real tale 

 would perhaps have been inclined to suppress. Over a great deal of enter- 

 taining matter we have been obliged entirely to pass ; but the accounts of 

 the chase of the elephant and the tiger of the impostures of the Indian 

 magicians of the marriage-ceremonies of the Hindoos of the victims left 

 to perish in the Hooghlv the tales of Kishen Doss " The Story of the 

 Skull" " The Deaf Indians "and "The Sailor of all Work "with 

 many other notices, to which want of space prevents our even referring, 

 will be found acceptable to readers of all tastes and classes. On the whole, 

 we consider the book to be one which, as it becomes known, will certainly 

 be popular. It contains a great deal of information relative to India - 

 mixed, as we have before observed, with some error, but never with offence 

 and always given in a style that pleases, because, it is easy and unpre- 

 tending. It is a book particularly suited to be put into the hands of young 

 persons ; they will derive a great deal of instruction from it, and will be 

 very nearly as much amused as in reading Robinson Crusoe, 



