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into the woods ; therefore, when a great mo- 

 tion is heard in thefe pools of water, the bell 

 Way is to make off immediately. 



Tin is not found in this BaJ]jaw r s country, 

 that I know of: but he has the toll and cuf- 

 tom of what is brought there. I am told, 

 that in the places where it comes from, they 

 do not fetch it out of the mountains, but dig 

 it out of the ground, together with the fand. 

 It is reckoned better than Englijh tin, at leaft 

 a Chinefe likes it better. 



The coins are rupees. A rupee contains 

 three cupang, and a cupang four condorin. They 

 are all filver. 



The 27th of May we fet fail : before Sa- 

 Vingor we ftaid in vain from the 30th of May 

 to the 2d of June : but afterwards we failed 

 among the many fine illands in the Straits of 

 Sonda. On one of thefe iflands is a fpecies 

 of flones very like the fand-flone from Oland, 

 but it burft into little cubic pieces, fcarce 

 above one foot and a half long, and as much 

 broad. 



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