328 AMBOINA. [chap. 



been too often described to need repetition. Within the limits of 

 the town may be seen growing ahnost every kind of fruit or 

 vegetable product that these pleasant islands of IMalaysia yield. 

 In a garden to the south, fittingly overshadowed by the wealth 

 of tropical verdure which, in his lifetime, he loved to describe, 

 stands the tomb of Eumphius. He was buried in the grounds of 

 his house, wliicli is, of course, no longer in existence, although 

 another has been built in its place. The monument, a tasteless 

 affair of brick and plaster, w^as erected at the beginning of the 

 present century at some little distance from the spot where the 

 body lies, and bears, in somewhat curious Latin, the following 

 inscription : — 



M. s. 

 GEORCII EVERARDI 



RUMPHII 



DE EE EOT. ET HIST. N'AT. 

 OPT. MEK. 



TUMULUM 



DIEA TEMP. CALAM. ET SACEIL. MANU FEEE 



DIEVTUM 



MAX IB. PLACATIS 



EESTIT. JT7SSIT 



ET 



PIET. EEVEEEXT. PUEL. TESTIF. 



H. M. 



IPSE CONSECR. 



GODARDUS ALEXANDER 



GERARDUS PHILIPPUS 



LIBER BARO A CAPELLEX 



TOT. IND. BELG. 



PE^F. REG. 



AMBOINA A.D. MEXS. APE. 

 A.D. MDCCCXXIV. 



