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seen it already before, and the latter from the axillary bulbils 

 which were as round as a ball and had many knots. 



Verbesina acmella grew here very frequently. Near the 

 columns grew Bryum murale, and near it a special kind of grass 

 which I could not classify among any of the different classes of 

 Linneus. (Then follows a description, rather confused, of the 

 plant, which was apparently Job's tears, Coix Lachryma Johi.) 



19 — 20. I made a description of the plants collected, and 

 tried to find as many of their Siamese names as I could. I also 

 got a kind of fern from the people, which when it is still quite 

 young is eaten as a kind of asparagus. 



An unusually heavy and long-lasting rain prevented me 

 from any excursion, and moreover it hindered me in the drying of 

 the collected plants. We had rain during the whole afternoon. 



21. One of my crew, after an uncomfortably passed night, 

 was attacked by a nervous illness, called Janun, which is 

 very common in this climate ; he had bathed in the early hours. 

 After taking some camphor powders and a mixture of salts, 

 the strain of the nerves subsided, the yawning fits, the 

 nervous dread, and the nausea had passed, a quiet sleep 

 followed and his pulse was good and regular. Afterwards I gave 

 him a mild detergent, which consisted of a solution of tartar, 

 (emetic) but part of it he brought up again. Meanwhile there 

 arrived some native doctors, which were said to be sent hither by 

 the king. At nine o'clock in the morning there came four more, 

 bringing some sacred water from one of their idols. Then they 

 offered up a sacrifice for him to their idols, and then washed his 

 face and body with this water. Nevertheless there was no im- 

 provement. The sudden change of temperature which he under- 

 went when they took him out of a very narrow bed and of 

 several yards of flannel, wherein he had been lying' for two days, 

 much against my wish, made the perspiration go back and caused 

 a new illness. The native doctors gave him first a mixture of 

 tamarind and the tube-like kasia, which he brought up again, 

 then they give him some of the heart of the Euphorbia, which 

 caused him much pain in his bowels. The danger increased and 

 the learned doctors had to think of some other way to procure 

 him relief. About 9 o'clock some stalks of the Papaya tree with 

 their leaves were brought in ; they were about 2^ feet long and 

 about one inch thick. The leaves were taken off and the some- 



