258 
A VOYAGE TO 
[At Timor. 
1803. 
April. 
examinations and discoveries upon the East and North Coasts, for 
the Admiralty ; with the report of the master and carpenter upon 
the state of the ship, and the information I had obtained of the 
trepang fishery. 
Our supplies for the ship, procured at Coepang, were rice, 
arrack, sugar, and the palm sirup called gulah ; with fresh meat, 
fruit, and vegetables during our stay, and for ten days afterwards. 
The animal food consisted of young karabow, a species of buffalo, 
and of small pigs and kids ; the karabow being charged at eight, 
the pigs at five, and kids at two rix dollars each. Vegetables 
were dear and not good, and for many of the fruits we were too early 
in the season ; but cocoa-nuts, oranges, limes, bananas, and shad- 
docks were tolerably plentiful. Tea, sugar candy, and some other 
articles for our messes, were purchased at the little shops kept by 
the Chinese-Malays ; and poultry was obtained along-side by barter. 
To judge from the appearance of those who had resided any 
length of time at Coepang, the climate is not good ; for even in com- 
parison with us, who had suffered considerably, they were sickly 
looking people. Yet they did not themselves consider thfe colony as 
unhealthy, probably from making their comparison with Batavia ; 
but they spoke of Diely, the Portuguese settlement, as very bad in 
this respect. Captain Baudin had lost twelve men from dysentery 5 
during his stay at Coepang, and I found a monument which he had 
erected to his principal gardener ; but it was even then beginning 
to decay. 
The latitude of our anchorage, three-fifths of a 
mile to the north of Fort Concordia, was 
io° 8' 2 " from seven meridian altitudes of the 
sun ; but these being all taken to the north, 
I consider it to be more correctly, - io° 8^' S. 
Longitude of the anchorage and fort, from fifty 
four sets of lunar distances, of which the 
particulars are given in Table VII. of the 
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