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confined in neat little bamboo cages. Tamarinds 
and water-melons were exposed for sale. Here and 
there might be seen a dingy flat-backed water- 
tortoise, and sometimes a python with splendid 
spotted skin. Everywhere baskets of the larger and 
more shovy conchs and cowries were so arranged 
as to attract cnstomei's. There were also mounds 
of cocoa-nuts, heaps of pine -apples, enormous 
yams, huge bunches of ripe bananas, and numerous 
aromatic shaddocks which had been grown in the 
neighbourhood of Batavia, and which always have 
a finer flavour than any produced elsewhere. 
I purchased two pretty spotted civet-cats, which, 
hoAvever, were very unamiable — I may say, savage. 
I also obtained two of those gentle, timid chevro- 
tins, or pigmy deer, not much larger than hares ; 
they are very difficult to keep alive in confinement, 
requiring to be fed on thin slices of green plantains, 
or unripe bananas. 
AVe watered the ship at ]\Iew Bay, near the 
entrance to Sunda Straits. I went ashore with the 
watering party, and wandered about to have a look 
