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had left his own country; and when he heard of Taiota’s death, he was 
quite inconsolable, crying out frequently, * Taiota! Taiota!’ They were 
both buried in the island of Eadam. During our stay at Batavia, most of 
us were sickly ; Mr. Monkhouse, our surgeon, and the astronomer's servant 
also died, and some others hardly escaped with life.” 
On the 26th December they left Batavia, and on the 5th January 
arrived at Prince's Island, where they stayed about ten days. At this place 
ends 8. Parkinson's Journal. 
Captain Cook says :—“ In the morning of the 26th we weighed and set 
sail. At this time the number of sick on board amounted to forty, and the 
rest of the ship's company were in a feeble condition. Every individual, 
including myself, had been sick, except the sailmaker, an old man between 
seventy and eighty years of age, and it is very remarkable that this old man, 
during our stay at this place, was constantly drunk every day. * * We 
now made the best of our way for the Cape of Good Hope, but the seeds of 
disease which we had received at Batavia began to appear with the most 
threatening symptoms in dysenteries and slow fevers. Mr. Banks was 
among the sick, and for some time there was no hope of his life. We were 
very soon in a most deplorable condition ; the ship was nothing better than 
& hospital, in which those that were able to go about were too few to attend 
the sick, who were confined to their hammocks; and we had almost every 
night a dead body to commit to the sea. In the course of about six weeks 
we buried Mr. Sporing, a gentleman who was in Mr. Banks's retinue, Mr. 
Parkinson, his natural history: painter, Mr Green, the astronomer, the boat- 
swain, the carpenter and his mate, Mr Monkhouse the midshipman (who 
had fothered the ship after she had been stranded on the coast of New 
Holland), our jolly old sailmaker and his assistant, the ship's cook, the 
corporal of marines, two of the carpenter's crew, a midshipman, and nine 
seamen; in all twenty-three persons, besides the seven that we buried at 
Batavia.” 
A few more sentences from Captain Cook :—‘ On the 15th March we 
anchored off the Cape of Good Hope, having only six men capable of doing 
duty,* so that we could not send our boat on shore. * * Having lain 
here to recover the sick and procure stores till the 18th of April, I then 
got all the sick on board, several of whom were still in a dangerous state; I 
unmoored and got ready to sail, having engaged some Portuguese to 
supply the loss of our sailors. The next evening I anchored under 
Robin Island. On the 25th we weighed and put to sea. About an 
hour afterwards we lost our master, Mr. Robert Molineux, a young 
man of good parts but unhappily given up to intemperance, which 
* Parkinson’s Journal, p. 210. 
