VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SlAM AND MALACCA. 59 



The Manuscript account of his travels and observations is 

 included in nineteen quarto volumes, and written in a mixture 

 of antiquated German and Danish in a very bad handwriting, 

 so that its translation is a work of some difficulty. No portion 

 has hitherto been published, but through the kindness of Mr. 

 Carruthers, the Head of the Botanical Departmeut of the British 

 Museum, we have been enabled to obtain a translation of such 

 portions as relate especially to our reg"ion. I have added a few 

 foot notes otherwise the translation made by Miss Overbeck has 

 been hardly altered at all. The account commences with the 

 starting' of the ship Bristol from Madras on August 8th, 1778, on 

 its way to Siam. 



Journal. 



August 8th, 1778. — After I had overcome many difficulties, 

 good luck favoured me in the end, so that I could prepare my- 

 self for a journey to Siam, as well as time would permit. 



I started on August the 8th, it was six o'clock in the even- 

 ing when I went on board the ship Bristol, which was commanded 

 by Captain Leith. 



The captain himself arrived an hour later, and ordered the 

 the anchors to be hoisted directly, and this was done in clear 

 moonlight, while the wind was breezing up. 



9th. — We saw the mountains, called by the sailors the 

 " Paliacatish Mountains" on our left side, they seemed to me to 

 be much smaller and less in number, than when I saw them two 

 years ago, and they are known in the country by the name of 

 " Nazari Mountains." Eed Sandalwood* grows on these moun- 

 tains, and that species of tree is frequently seen, upon which 

 grow the Myrohalanus citrina\ both of which I have described 

 two years ago, and sent the description to Europe. x\fter we 

 had passed these mountains, the country grew quite flat, our 

 favourable wind left us towards midday, and a perfect calm 

 caused us to advance but little to-day. Towards evening our 

 favourable wind returned, but feebly as yet, and early on the 

 10th we saw the mountains of Angola, which seemed to me to 

 be much smaller than the Paliacatish Mountains. The calm was 

 the same as yesterday, however we succeded in getting 



* Pterocarpus santalinus Linn Jil 

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