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those of all others, and have dark stripes. This I have observed 

 in no other species until now. I had often seen Greria Miccroco.% 

 but always without fruit ; here was a pretty thick tree, which had 

 both blossoms and fruits. 



There were many Malay g-raves at the foot of the mountain. 

 There is a superstition that whoever comes near a grave, 

 or worse who steps upon it, will soon die, or at least will have 

 some dangerous illness. I took the risk however, and gathered 

 some fruits from a shrub, wliich was a Monandrist. 



14. — During these two days I was very busy examining and 

 describing my new plants. To-day T received four green pigeons, 

 which I described; I stuffed a male and a female one. In I he 

 afternoon I botanized a little, and found a very rare Epidendrum, 

 which had folia biforia, sessilia compressa, and a Spica at the end, 

 which resembles that of the Lycopodia completely. I had to 

 postpone the more minute description till the next day, because 

 it had grown too late. 



16. — I examined the water of a warm spring, which is 

 situated near the sea, a few miles from Malacca. The water 

 was already a few days old and contained no vestige of fixed air 

 {sicm^i. S.); nor did I find any iron; and there were fewer 

 particles of salt than I have found in any other water. The 

 only thing I could discover were a few alkali minerals. The 

 smell had nothing peculiar either. 



17. — -I received from the place where the hot spring is said 

 to be some pieces of black, white and red striped Pelrosilex; in 

 the middle was a wide white stripe, which seemed to consist of 

 some quartz sand. Very likely it came from the mountain whicii 

 the Dutch call Ophir. 



From some place near here I received some specimens of 

 white Porcelain clay. I tried it with my tongue, and found that 

 it exercised a certain adhesion but did not effervesce. It was not 

 heavy but very fine and does not form a very firm substance. I 

 could not detect any glimmer or nitrogene parts, through a Iialf 

 inch microscope. During the night I put it in some Ihiid 

 and the liquid did not change in liquidity and colour, neither did 

 the clay. I could not make any examination in reference to fire. 

 The clay can easily be shaped into balls and dries hard, but 

 breaks when one rolls it. It stains the fingers very little. 



19.— We had remarkably fine weather yesterday; it was 



