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We enjoyed tolerably fine weather during our 

 flay at Amboyna ; the winds did not blow with 

 any degree of violence ; and thofe which came 

 from between the lbuth-eaft and the north-caft 

 were very faint. 



The market, where different fruits of the coun- 

 try are fold, is held in the quarter of the Chinefe. 

 The Malays defignate this place by the term of 

 bazar, the fame as the Arabs. It is principally 

 towards the clofe of the day that the venders 

 affcmble ; and here they remain till nine o'clock 

 in the evening. Each of thefe fruiterers is lighted 

 by one, and more frequently by two torches, 

 formed of the rofin railed dammer, which fur- 

 mfhes a fort of cycas known under the fame 

 name ; it is the dammara alba, Rumph. Amb, 

 vol. ii. chap. xii. tab. 57. They wrap it up 

 in leaves of the fago-tree, without adding to it 



y wick; it burns well, making little fmoke ; 

 only care muft be taken to lower, from time to 

 time, the leaf of the fago-tree, which is reduced 

 to afhes, in order to bring it to a level with the 

 rofin as fait as it is confumrd. Thefe people are 



ited at a very cheap rate : each torch of dam- 

 mer, two decimeters long, by a third of a deci- 

 i] thickncte, cofls them about a centime 

 . furni flies a pretty good light 

 is of three hours. This rofin al Co 

 ferret them as a torch in their houfes. 



Some 



