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to bend the neck down very low, but I tried to fig-hi down this 

 desire for sleep as well as I could. A great Ion ing- for heating 

 drink made me take several glasses of Madeira wine during the 

 day, they were the only remedy I had. My food consisted in the 

 middle of the day of chicken broth and rice, there was no Aroma ta 

 on board, and in the evening I had some boiled Sago with 

 Madeira poured over it, which looked and tasted equally bad on 

 account of the bad water, but this was a case of eat or die. 



A glass of Dutch beer drove away all paralysis for a few 

 hours, and this circumstance convinced me that my pains were 

 more marasmal or paralitical than rheumatical. The continual 

 contrary south wind made our journey very slow, but Captain 

 Scott, who used every possible advantage, succeeded in bringing 

 us to the harbour of Sallangor on the 



2nd of August.— We found there two other large English 

 ships, which had arrived before us. Our captain went ashore 

 directly; we were only two English miles distant from the land, 

 and I sent for some better drinking water to one of the Engl s i 

 ships. I obtained some the same evening, which was very 

 welcome to me. 



4. — I was refreshed with some excellent fruits, and found 

 the interior watery part of the cocoanuts highly beneficial. I 

 also obtained some purging remedy, which gave me considerable 

 relief, so that I tried to get up a little, although I could lift 

 nothing with the right, and very little with the left, hand ; I 

 could scarcely lift the spoon to my mouth. 



5. — The captain sent among other things a great quantity 

 of Stock Lack (varnish), which was particularly good and came 

 from Pegu. The gum in many places was more than three inches 

 thick on the little pieces of wood, where it had been heaped up 

 by insects. The surface was rough, like much used Shagreen, 

 and had not the same bright yellow colour as the artificial one 

 from Hamburg. When one breaks it it looks almost like wax 

 in a beehive, only the intercepting spaces are larger, and there is 

 only one single layer. Each cell is linear ; the sides are of 

 undetermined outline, but rather inclined to form corners. In 

 many of them there were still the dried up insects, and in some 

 others from which the insects had gone there was some white 

 woolly substance at the end, as is usually the case with the 

 Ohermes and Caccos. I picked out a few pieces, which I shall 



