oct. 1770 BOUGAINVILLE—ILLNESS OF PARTY 371 
Spanish colours, might choose to go quite across with them. 
The iron, which most misled us, had undoubtedly been bought 
in Spanish America. Besides the botanist mentioned above, 
these ships were furnished with one or more draughtsmen, so 
that they have probably done some of our work for us. 
21st. After petitioning and repetitioning the Council of 
the Indies, our affairs were at last settled, and orders given 
to heave down the ship with all expedition; so she this 
day went down to Kuyper, called by the English Cooper's 
Island, where a warehouse was allotted for her to lay up her 
stores, etc. 
We now began sensibly to feel the ill effects of the 
unwholesome climate we were in. Our appetites and spirits 
were gone, but none were yet really sick except poor Tupia 
and Tayeto, both of whom grew worse and worse daily, so 
that I began once more to despair of poor Tupia’s life. At 
last he desired to be moved to the ship, where, he said, he 
should breathe a freer air clear of the numerous houses, 
which he believed to be the cause of his disease, by stopping 
the free draught. Accordingly on the 28th I went down 
with him to Kuyper, and on his liking the shore had a tent 
pitched for him in a place he chose, where both sea and 
land breezes blew right over him, a situation in which he 
expressed great satisfaction. 
The seamen now fell ill fast, so that the tents ashore 
were always full of sick. After a stay of two days I left 
Tupia well satisfied in mind, but not at all better in body, 
and returned to town, where I was immediately seized with 
a tertian, the fits of which were so violent as to deprive me 
entirely of my senses, and leave me so weak as scarcely to 
be able to crawl downstairs. My servants, Peter and James, 
were as bad as myself, and Dr Solander now felt the first 
attacks of the fever, but never having been in his lifetime 
once ill, resisted it, resolved not to apply to a physician. 
But the worst of all was Mr. Monkhouse, the ship’s surgeon ; 
he was now confined to his bed by a violent fever, which 
grew worse and worse notwithstanding all the efforts of the 
physician. 
