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liad left his own coimtry ; and wlien 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 S. 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 x^lace, 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 

 a 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 sis weeks 

 we buried Mr. Sporing, a gentleman who Avas in Mr. Banks's retinue, Mr. 

 Parkinson, his natural history j^ainter, Mr Green, the astronomer, the boat- 

 swain, the carpenter and his mate, Mr Monldiouse 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 13th 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 

 Eobin Island. On the 25th we weighed and put to sea. About an 

 hour afterwards we lost our master, Mr. Eobert Molineux, a young 

 man of good parts but unhappily given up to intemperance, which 



* Parkinson's Journal, p. 210. 



