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anther. Many of them covered the whole surface of the fruit, 

 which was bigger than a cherry and of a dark purple colour. 

 The female ones are green on the outside, but the fleshy part of 

 the inside is also of a beautiful purple. Their stigma is also single. 

 The detailed description is in the definition?. 



12. — The rainy weather continued more steadily than ever 

 before, and the lower part of the country was inundated. I 

 waded to a place where grew a big fig tree, which had ripe fruits 

 on one side of the crown. It was much frequented by monkeys 

 and by many kinds of birds, as the black Martins with the 

 yellow ear-lobes, many kinds of pigeons, and specially the long 

 beaked Buceros. I could not get near enough with my rifle, 

 because the monkeys soon became alarmed and frightened all 

 the birds away by their yells. 



16. — I botanized a little ; nearly everything was under water. 

 The principal thing I found was a Dillenia with yellow blossoms, 

 which Rumph has down in his Herb. Amboin. 



A tiger had come down from the mountains and had caused 

 much damage. 



22. — Up to now we had most terrible rains, everything was 

 saturated and my collection suffered greatly as everything be- 

 gan to decay. Captain Banton arrived in the harbour to-day 

 with the war frigate "Sea Horse," coming from China. 



24. — To-day I sent away whatever was dry in my collection 

 by the war frigate " Sea Horse," which starts for Madras to-day. 

 I trusted my plants to the special care of Mr. Stuart, doctor of the 

 frigate. 



25. — A¥e had an eclipse of the moon last night, and all the 

 Chinese were about with light and fire in order to help the 

 moon. 



20. — I had the pleasure of Captain Light's arrival, who came 

 from Kedar, and will only stay here for a short time. 



29. — I went on board of our ship to look at all my things, 

 which had suffered very much from the moisture, not only my 

 collections, but also my books. It took me some days to repair 

 the damage, because the uncertain weather continued. 



Dec. 2. — I went out to botanize and found the Aspleniwu', 

 the peculiar kind of pepper with the fat, lancet-shaped, obloing 

 leaves ; the blossoms were monoicous. 



There was a large climbing kind of fig with beautiful look- 



