The transports ©f Tupia and Tateto, &c. igj 
wore content, it was continued for the benefit of the hoft, but 
that if they complained, it was gradually amended till they 
were fatisfied, which fometimes happened before they had the 
worth of their money. After this difcovery, they remonftrated, 
and their fare became better; however, after a few days, Mr, 
Banks hired a little houfe, the next door on the left hand to 
the hotel, for himfelf and his party, for which he paid after 
the rate of ten rix-dollars, or two pounds five (hillings fierling 
a month; but here they were very far from having either the 
convenience or the privacy which they expefted; no perfon 
was permitted to fleep in this private houfe occafionally, as a 
guell to the perfon who hired it, under a penalty, but almoft 
every Dutchman that went by ran in without any ceremony* 
to a(k what they fold, there having been very feldom any 
private perfons at Batavia who had not fomething to fell. 
Every body here hires a carriage, and Mr. Banks hired two. 
They are open chaifes, made to hold two people, and driven 
by a man fitting on a coach-box; for each of thefe he paid 
two rix-dollars a day. 
As foon as he was fettled in his new habitation, he fent for 
Tupia, who till now had continued on board upon account of 
his illnefs, which was of the bilious kind, and for which he 
bad obftinately refufed to take any medicine. He foon came 
afhore, with his boy Tayeto, and though while he was on 
board, and after he came into the boat, he was exceedingly 
liftlefs and dejeded, he no fooner entered the town than h® 
feemed to animated with a new foul. The houfes, carriages* 
ftreets, people, and a multiplicity of other obje&s, all new, 
which rufhed upon him at once, produced an effed like the 
fudden and fecret power that is imagined of fafcination, Tayeto 
expreffed his wonder and delight with Hill Iefs reflraint, and 
danced’along the ftreet in a kind of extafy, examining every 
cbjed with a reftlefs and eager curiofity, which was every 
moment excited and gratified. One of the firft things that 
Tupia remarked, was the various drefies of the pafiing multi- 
tude, concerning which he made many enquiries ; and when 
he was told that in this place, where people of many different 
nations were aifembled, every one wore the habit of his country, 
he defired that he might conform to the cuftom, and appear in 
that of Otaheite, South Sea cloth was therefore fent for from 
the (hip, and he equipped himfelf with great expedition and 
dexterity. The people who had feen Otourou, the Indian 
who had been brought hither by M. Bougainville, enquired 
whether Tupia was not the fame perfon : from thefe enquiries, 
we learnt who it was that we had fuppofed to be Spaniards, 
from the accounts that had been given of two fliips by the 
Iflanders. 
Ia the mean time* I procured an order to the fuperintendant 
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