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1780. waS) that they had not been twenty-four hours on board, 



January. 



V-.-V— ^ before they became the tameft of all creatures. I kept two 

 of them, a male and female, for a confiderable time, which 

 became great favourites with the failors, and, thinking that 

 a breed of animals of fuch ftrength and fize, fome of them, 

 weighing, when drefTed, feven hundred pounds weight, 

 would be a valuable acquifition, I was inclined to have 

 brought them with me to England ; but my intention was 

 fruftrated by an incurable hurt that one of them received 

 at fea. 



Friday 28. \ t was not till the 28th, that the buffaloes were all got on 

 board ; however, there was no reafon to regret the time 

 taken up by this fervice, fince, in the interim, two wells of 

 excellent water had been difcovered, of which, as alfo of 

 wood, part of the fhips companies had been employed in 

 laying in a good fupply ; fo that a fhorter flop would be ne- 

 ceflary, for replenifhing our flock of thefe articles, in the 

 Strait of Sunda. A party had likewife been occupied in 

 drawing the feine, at the head of the harbour, where they 

 took a great many good nili ; and another party, in cutting 

 down the cabbage- palm, which was boiled and ferved out 

 with the meat. Befides this, having been able to procure 

 only a fcanty fupply of cordage at Macao, the repairing of 

 our rigging, was become an object of conrtant attention,, 

 and demanded all our fpare time. 



Pulo-Condore is high and mountainous, and furrounded 

 by feveral fmaller iflands, fome of which are lefs than one, 

 and others two miles diftant. It takes its name from two 

 Malay words, Pulo fignifying an ifland, and Com/ore a cala- 

 bafli, of which it produces great quantities. It is of the 

 form of a crefcent, extending near eight miles from the 

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