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BATAVIA 



CHAP. XVI 



4:th November. At last, after many delays caused by 

 Dutch ships which came alongside the wharfs to load 

 pepper, the Endeavour was this day got down to Onrust, 

 where she was to be hove down without delay, most welcome 

 news to us all, now heartily tired of this unwholesome 

 country. 



Poor Mr. Monkhouse became worse and worse without 

 the intervention of one favourable symptom, so that we now 

 had little hopes of his life. 



6th. In the afternoon of this day poor Mr. Monkhouse 

 departed, the first sacrifice to the climate, and the next day 

 was buried. Dr. Solander attended his funeral, and I should 

 certainly have done the same, had I not been confined to my 

 bed by my fever. Our case now became melancholy, neither 

 of my servants were able to help me, no more than I was 

 them, and the Malay slaves, whom alone we depended on, 

 naturally the worst attendants in nature, were rendered less 

 careful by our incapacity to scold them on account of our 

 ignorance of the language. When we became so sick that 

 we could not help ourselves, they would get out of call, so 

 that we were obliged to remain still until able to get up 

 and go in search of them. 



9th. This day we received the disagreeable news of the 

 death of Tayeto, and that his death had so much affected 

 Tupia, that there were little hopes of his surviving him 

 many days. 



1 Oth. Dr. Solander and I still grew worse and worse, 

 and the physician who attended us declared that the country 

 air was necessary for our recovery ; so we began to look out 

 for a country house, though with a heavy heart, as we knew 

 that we must there commit ourselves entirely to the care of 

 the Malays, whose behaviour to sick people we had all the 

 reason in the world to find fault with. For this reason we 

 resolved to buy each of us a Malay woman to nurse us, 

 hoping that the tenderness of the sex would prevail even 

 here, which indeed we found it to do, for they turned out 

 by no means bad nurses. 



llth. We received the news of Tupia's death; I had 



