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sailors, rosy and plump, "jeered and flaunted much" 

 at the white-faced Dutch who came alongside. They were 

 warned of the extreme unwholesomeness of the place. 



EXTRACT FROM COOK'S LETTER FROM BATAVIA TO THE SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY, 

 DATED 23RD OCT., I77O. 



But they laughed, thinking themselves well-seasoned 

 to any climate, and " trusting more than all," writes Cook, 

 " to an invariable temperance in everything, which we 

 had as yet unalteredly kept during our whole residence 

 in the warm latitudes " ; a statement which is, no doubt, 

 true in some sense, but which nevertheless surprises readers 



