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Thevi; are said to bo about two thousand Clai- 

 nese InbaljitiBg anjd etflttvatiug tlt^^oil in ^« tn." 

 teHor of the island. 'Tli®y&avefiGa%'-ea»:slrti^e(, 

 altluniii'li not well-furnished habitations. Thvy 

 nrt'i'Tcd us tea, (and it \v;is poured out in thf! 

 usuLil Lilliputian cups,) fruitis, rice cakes, and 

 mmB substaatial articles of diel ; indeed they 

 always ap|ye^iRed tm4y to m ib« i3x0f 

 had. Mttr ^afeinf> a rustic 4itti$eri »eteine4 



to tlie ^laiupan hy tin- snuie routo we e;nru'. 

 Ou the rt)atl we observed a Malay lad collecting 

 some plants, m be inforaed us, for medicine : 

 those I exuiniaed editial^d i^erely ^ s#?6ral 

 grasses. He said it wns for a ])atient suffering 

 under small-pox. The phiuts were to he lioiird, 

 mixed with rice, and employed as an external 

 application to the body. 



We rejoined our sampan at the Singapore 

 creek, and arrived at the town early ha the 

 cvcuiuLi'. 



Early one morning I visited a plantation of a 



lififj wli^n toffering ^rom a long ilrou^ht, they pour the 

 %aterfrom all the appendages they can Hnd, satisfkHl that 

 tl46 i!ere«M»iiy wiH be fQlloKfed a change of weather. Such 

 beTief is cuftoitsty conttttst^ Willi tficlif fiotiotts of fhe rtut* 

 dlciiial prDpt riiL's of the water contained in them, which th^ 

 believe tin infallible specihc for incontinence of urine. — - 

 ^mph.4itin Ab€fs Cfmta, pp. 340, 34 J. 



