i6i OSBECK'S VOYAGE, 



night there, and returned in the morning to 

 Summatra. This is undoubtedly a lingular 

 circumflance, deferving a clofer examination. 

 In flight and fize they were like our ravens ; 

 a man of veracity affured me, that he had 

 feen them in a garden at Batavia\ do thefe 

 animals find fome food at Java which they 

 cannot meet with in Summatra f or are they 

 molefted during the nights in Summatra with 

 enemies which are not to be found in Java ? 

 what elfe can be the reafon why they fo often 

 change their habitations ? 



July the 19th. 



We palTed by the point of Bantam in the 

 morning, in fair weather and with favourable 

 wind ; and in the afternoon about two of the 

 clock, two ifles which are fo like one another 

 that they are called the Two Brothers. The 

 ground was a blue clay mixed with white 

 fand ; it was at ten or thirteen fathoms depth. 



July the 2 1 ft. 



The water looked yellow, and was now in 

 bloflbm , as our people told me. 



In the northern countries of Europe, it is faiaVthat/^ 

 water is in blotfom, when it is tinned with a green or 



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