OF LA PF.ROUSE. 3OI 



CHAPTER XV. 



Siaif at JVaijgiou. Onr scorbutic people expe- 

 rience speedy relief. Interviews witli the na- 

 tires. JVe anchor at Bouro. JFe pass the 

 Strait of Bouton. lUrcages of the dijsenteri/. 

 JVe anchor at Sourahaya. Staij at Sama- 

 rang. ATy detention at Fort /Inkai, near 

 Batavia. Stay in the Isle of France. Aly 

 return to France. 



-L'URING our fray at WLiyo-iou we were fre- 

 quently viiited by the natives, who brought us 

 turtles, feveral of which weighed from ten to 

 twelve myriagrams, and mofl: of which they had 

 taken on the Aiou Iflands. The foup vv^hich 

 was made of them afforded great relief to our 

 fcorbutic people. The inhabitants perceiv- 

 ing how much we were in want of them, made 

 us pay for them ten times their value. Thefe 

 turtles, after their head had been cut off, liiil 

 continued to walk for feveral hours. The in- 

 habitants alfo fold us fomc turtle's eggs boiled 

 and ftuffed in hogs guts, fome turtle's Rcih 

 drefied after the manner of the Buccaneers, 

 4 fome 



