154 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



fired a cannon, and prefented' us with two large 

 water-melons marked with Chinefe characters. 



About three in the afternoon we failed from 

 hence, with very little wind, and anchored 

 again at five o'clock on a ftony ground at 

 twenty fathoms depth j the next night we had 

 fome lightning. 



July the 1 8th. 



The weather was fine, but wind and current 

 qpere againft us. 



The 'java men came to us, and had cocoa- 

 nuts, large oranges, {Citrus decumana), great 

 coifee-beans, chicken of different colours, pale- 

 grey ducks, powder-fugar, tobacco, feveral 

 mats to lie upon in the heat inftead of Iheets ; 

 fome birds in cages, particularly little parrots 

 of excellent green, blue, and red colours, 

 cfpecially the following : 



Tfittacus galgulus, viridis, uropygio et guld 

 rubrdy vertice cceruko Linn. Tfittacus viridis, 

 remigibus reftricibufque fupra viridibus, fubtus 

 caruleis, uropygio peftoreque cQCcineo, vertice 



totrulcQ. Edw. t. 6* 



Its 



