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to flop him, when, taking a pail of water newly 

 drawn from a well, he prepared to inundate the 

 patient. This was precifely a little time before 

 the critical fweat, which was fo falutary to him. 



The Malay doctor, no doubt, exerted all his 

 Ikill ; but he was ignorant that he might thus 

 check the critical perfpiration of which the pulfe 

 had given the confolatory prefage* 



Our patient being fufficiently recovered, on 

 the 19th, to difpenfe with fuch aifiduous attend- 

 ance, we walked into the country to the weft- 

 Ward. 



Having for fome time followed the banks 

 of a little river, which difcharges itfelf into tho 

 road (lead at no great diftance from the town, 

 we were returning loaded with fine plants, when, 

 on the approach of night, we met with fome 

 natives who had been fuccefsful in fifhing, and 

 were preparing to broil their fifh. We had the 

 pleafure of feeing them kindle a fire by means 

 of two pieces of bamboo rubbed one againft the 

 other, and cut in the manner which I fhall pre- 

 fently explain. 



On the 20th we employed half the day in 

 an excurfion to the fouthward, and we were not 

 long before we reached a hill, where we found 

 fome young natives, who had juft fpread their 

 nets to catch birds : thefe confifted of hairs dif- 

 pofed in a running knot, and fattened to a very 



y a long 



