3 S8 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



flie knowledge cf him, who is the Lord of 

 the umverfe. 



The harveft time now came on, for which 

 rcafon the Chincfe aflembled in great numbers, 

 to mow their rice, carry it home, and dry it 

 in convenient places* 



The failor, who fome days ago fell from 

 our fhip into the river, and had been by the 

 rapid ftream carried immediately to the bot- 

 tom, was now found floating on the water, as 

 commonly happens on the third day. We 

 buried him very late at night, on the Danijl) 

 Wand, 



The 20th of Oclober. t 



To-day our boat was fent to fetch water 

 from the Dani/Jj IJland, whither I went with 

 i*:. We entered with the tide into a canal be- 

 tween the rice fields, nearer to the mouth of 

 the river than in the above-mentioned burying- 

 placc. We fetched the water out of a pit at 

 rhe bottom of a mountain ; and nothing but 

 ihe continual fupply of water could make us 

 te'ieve that this was a fprjng ; and even that 



might 



