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It is painful to add, that out of two hundred 

 and nineteen perfons, there had already died 

 eighty-nine, previous to my arrival at the Ifle of 

 France ; but it muft he obferved, that we had 

 loft very few people in the courfe of the voyage, 

 and that this frightful mortality was owing folely 

 to our long flay in the Ifland of Java. 



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