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describe them. There also bloomed Cordia Sehestena, Guettarda, 

 Speciosa, Ixora flava, Lophora tomentosa', thej were all very 

 beautiful. 



5. — It rained during the whole day ; I described some plants. 



6. — I went to an island which lay one mile northward from 

 our ship. My researches were soon interrupted by the arrival 

 of seven or eight Malay praus, whose neighbourhood is always 

 dangerous for all Europeans. I only saw that the stones consisted 

 of a Schist, which was thin, grey and weathered on the surface 

 by the heat of the sun and the sea. Sometimes they were inter- 

 sected by some quartz, or by some red iron ore ; these veins 

 mostly ran down perpendicularly. I also found some traces of 

 splendid corals here. Dark clouds rose from the sea in the 

 north-west and though there was a strong west wind, the sky 

 soon looked very threatening. This, the Malays, and the 

 dangerous storms which we had had a short time ago, combined 

 with heavy rain, made it advisable for me to return. I arrived 

 at the ship just as it was beginning to grow dark. After 8 o'clock 

 the anchor was weighed to go to Taman, were we had been a 

 month ago. 



7. — We had hardly made half our way, and the weather 

 grew more and more stormy. AV e had had rain and storm every 

 day which we passed on shore, but now there was a fresh storm 

 nearly every second hour. We travelled between the islands of 

 Pullu Penjang and the Lehlands, as far as the French island, but 

 the ship did not advance, because if the wind was moderate we 

 had not enough sails, as some had to be taken down from the 

 upper mast, and if there was a storm the body of the ship alone 

 sutticed to serve the storm m driving us back; therefore the 

 anchor was cast and we were glad to be in our dry cabins. 



8. — We tried again to get near the land, and succeeded a 

 little better than yesterday, and about 10 o'clock we went on 

 shore with a boat to the place where we wanted to go, which 

 was at about three (Jerman miles distance. We got wet on 

 account of the rain, but the wind though contrary was moderate 

 and at four o'clock in the afternoon we arrived at Tamah. 



13. — Until this day we had most violent storms and s..owers. 

 I botanized in the few dry-hours, but the damp spoiled every- 

 thing because the houses here are like sieves. Moreover, there 

 was the annoying' circumstance that my servant, whom I had 



