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not eafily brought home from fuch diftant 

 parts. Their conflant nocturnal mewing is 

 intolerable. Sometimes they are attacked by 

 the fcurvy, which makes them fo ftiff that at 

 laft they can fcarce move out of one place, 

 and this very often kills them. If you let 

 them go about freely, they play a thoufand 

 tricks, jump over every thing, fteal the peo- 

 ples meat away, hunt after chicken, break 

 the necks of birds ; and even carry their 

 mifchief further, which has been attefled by 

 many men of veracity : fome years ago there 

 was a great monkey in a (hip, and the boys 

 being ordered to get upon the yard to take in 

 the fail, the monkey mounted after them, .and 

 one of them not doing his bufmefs to its lik- 

 ing, it bit off his ear. Thefe and other in- 

 conveniences are the reafons why we bring no 

 more of thefe diverting animals with us. 



July the, 17th. 

 Fine and calm weather. 



A Javanese man, who conducted a Dutch 

 yacht from Batavia to the weftern coaft, with 

 ^ Dutch flag, came on board us, after we had 



fired 



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