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the ship's remedies had become exhausted, that a Dutch surgeon 

 had been allowed to land and search the environs of Nagasaki for 

 medicinal herbs. This discovery had the effect of immediately 

 raising all scruples. But unfortunately the Governor examined 

 the case a second time and found that the Dutchman had been 

 of the rank of Second Surgeon while I was a First Surgeon. 

 Therefore was I in no way entitled to the same privilege and it 

 was promptly withdrawn ! 



"A circumstance of this kind is of tremendous importance in 



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the eyes of the 



degree. Thej 



wishes of their sovereign without 



pret them or to make the slighte 



As for myself, while I was in no 



officer th; 



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Th, 



ly regardless of the 



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nth of Febru 



larked 

 Second Surgeon ; that the First 

 nk of the Second, and 

 the rank of the First ! 

 :h approval and were sufficient 

 uple of the Governor who once more rendered 

 lable to profit by it before 

 great regret that I had 

 ipent the entire autumn waiting for that miserable revocation." 



In the meanwhile, however, Thunberg's ingenuity had helped 

 lim out. He goes on to tell us that " Fortunately several of 

 :he interpreters had become my pupils in medicine and surgery. 

 Jnder my supervision, they treated the sick of the village. As 

 enumeration for my lessons, I demanded of them all the plants, 

 lowers and seeds which they could collect in the neighborhood 

 )f Nagasaki." 



On the fifteenth of August, they landed the animals from the 

 ;hip. Cows, calves, sheep, pigs and deer were brought every 

 ;ear from Batavia, not only for the consumption of the Euro- 

 jeans at the factory, but also for .the provision of the vessel on 

 ts return voyage. These animals, were kept in a stable upon 

 he island; and during the winter fed upon rice, rice-straw and 



