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requires a long time and frequent care. Their 

 manner of living ought lirkewife as much as 

 pcdhble to be obferved. 



The minuted: animal oagiit mt to be for- 

 got. We frequently find fome which fliine in 

 water. The knowledge of thefe animals and 

 of their place of abode may perhaps here- 

 after be as fure a mark to determine i-n what 

 parts of the fea we are, as the trumpet weed 

 (Fucus tnaximus) together with the cape pi- 

 geons are an undoubted token that we begin 

 to approach the Cape. 



It is more advantageous (if circumitancei 

 allow of it) to go on fhore in Java when wc 

 fail to, and not when we fail from, China ; fince 

 in the feafon of our return the rain ufually 

 occafions many interruptions. We here meet 

 with a collection of the molt magnificent pro- 

 ductions of nature : the moll remarkable ani- 

 mals, the fined infects, the prettied ihells, the 

 moil wondrous corals, the fcareed plants, 

 efpecially many" forts of palm-trees, which 

 might afford many a year's work for an ad- 

 mirer of nature. The civility of the inhabi- 

 tants is no fmall encouragement to us : and we 

 forget the fury of wild beads, in confideration 



