VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 73 



There are also some kinds of cotton manufactured here with 

 a gloss over them, and figures were mixed amongst the flowers. 



Afterwards I saw the great ponds, used to bleach the fine 

 kinds of linen, and ended up by visiting the graves of the first 

 Europeans, over which monuments as big and in the shape of houses 

 have been erected ornamented with rich sculpture. Amongst 

 them was also that of an English lady buried here almost hundred 

 years ago ; she had been called Hattung, as a big black grave- 

 stone, hewn out of rock and polished, announced in wide, 

 sprawling Latin writing. 



In the afternoon I visited the men who manufacture the 

 lacquer-wares, hoping to get some more information regarding 

 them, because there is here a more direct communication with 

 Aidrabath, but I was not successful. 



I saw that they fill the joints of the little boxes intended 

 for painting, with an ordinary paste of Causch (cutch?)and ground 

 Tamarind bark, after which they made a foundation for the 

 lacquer ware with a finely ground fat pipe clay and Causch. The 

 rest of the work is very simple. The lacquer-wares here are 

 superior to those of Massulipatam, specially the black ones. 



21. — We went back to our ship quite early. On our way 

 thither it rained ; I looked very eagerly for the molluscs, but the 

 water was too turbid. In the evening our captain started for 

 for open sea. 



22, — The contrary wind was much against our proceeding 

 quickly on our journey, we were between Massulipatam and 

 Narhapuhr, where we cast anchor. The little wind there was 

 was contrary to us. 



23. — We had lost sight of the coast but advanced very 

 slowly. 



24 — The wind though weak in the morning, let us keep 

 our course. We saw some Dorados swimming at the side of our 

 ship. In the afternoon the wind grew stronger and one of 

 these fish was caught with a three pronged iron. 



25 — There were many Phaetons flying round the ship, 

 the sea was very rough. We were at fourteen degrees latitude. 



26 — A kind of sea bird flew across the sea; they had long 

 narrow wings, which were white underneath, their back was 

 brown, and round their beaks they were black. I could not 



