3 l8 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



Our obfcrvatory was eflabliflied the fame day, 

 towards the weft fide of the town. As this place 

 was not within fight of the fhip, the aftrono- 

 mers experienced the inconvenience of being 

 obliged to go to the fea-fide in order to compare 

 the rate of the watches with that of the chro- 

 nometers. 



The weft end of the town, where we alfo 

 lived, forms the quarter inhabited by the Chi- 

 nefe ; there were in it few natives of the ifland, 

 and only one Dutchman. All the other Dutch- 

 men refided, either in the centre of the town, 

 or towards its call fide. 



We were become fo weak, that at firft we 

 v obliged to content ou Helves with making 

 a few excurfions to a fhort diftance from the 

 to\. 



- We vifited the Company's garden, which con- 

 tains nothing remarkable but a very convenient 

 bath, where the Governor went regularly every 

 three or four days. This bath is fupplied with 

 very clear water, which runs down from the 

 neighbouring bill. There is another bath clofc 

 to it, for the ufe of the women. 



The Dutch at Amboyna are in the habit of 



bathing every three or four days. On thole days 



arefully avoid expofing themfelves to the 



great heat, which lafts from eleven o'clock in 



ing till three in the afternoon. It is 



even 



