i 9 8 C O O K ’s V O Y A G E. 
of the ifland of Ouruft, where the fhip was to be repaired, to 
receive her there; and fent by one of the (hips that failed for 
Holland, an account of our arrival here, to Mr. Stephens, the 
Secretary to the Admiralty. 
The expences that would be incurred by repairing and re- 
fitting the ihip, rendered it necefiary for me to take up money 
in this place, which I imagined might be done without difficul- 
ty, but I found myfelf miftaken ; for after the mofl diligent 
enquiry, I could not find any private perfon that had ability 
and inclination to advance the fum that I wanted. In this 
difficulty I applied to the Governor himfelf, by a written rcqueft, 
in confequence of which, the Shebander had orders to fupply 
me with what money I ffiould require out of the Company’s 
Treafury. 
On the iSth, as foon as it was light, having by feveral acci- 
dents and miftakes differed a delay of many days, I took up the 
anchor, and ran down to Ouruft : a few days afterwards, we 
went slong-fide of the wharf, on Cooper’s Ifland, wiiich lies- 
clofe to Ouruft, in order to take out our ftores. 
By this time, having been here only nine days, we began ta 
feel the fatal efrefts of the climate and fituation. Tupia, after 
the flow of fpirits which the novelties of the place produced 
upon his firft landing, fank on a fudden, and grew every day 
worfe and worfe. Tayeto was feized with an inflammation 
■upon his lungs, Mr. Banks’s two fervants became very ill, and 
himfelf and Dr. Sclander were attacked by fevers : in a few 
days, almoft every perfon both on board and affiore was flck ; 
affedled, no doubt, by the low fwampy fituation of the place, 
and the numberlefs dirty canals which interfecl the town in all 
diredHons. On the 26th, I fet up the tent for the reception of 
the fhip’s company, of whom there was but a fmall number 
able to do duty. Poor Tupia, of whofe life we now began to 
defpair, and who till this time had continued alhore with Mr. 
Banks, aefired to be removed to the fhip, where, he faid, he 
Ihould breathe a freer air than among the numerous houfes 
which obftrudted it afhore : on board the fhip, however, he 
could not go, for fhe was unrigged, and preparing to be laid 
down at the careening place.; but on the 28th, Mr. Banks went 
with him to Cooper’s Ifland, or, as it is called here, Xuypor r 
where fhe lav, and as he feemed pleafed with the fpot, a tent 
was there pitched for him : at this place, both the fea breeze 
and the land breeze blew diredlly over him, and he expreffed 
great fatisfaftion in his fituation. Mr. Banks, whofe huma- 
nity kept him two days with this poor Indian, returned to the 
town on the 30th, and the fits of his intermittent, which was 
now become a regular tertian, were fo violent as to deprive 
him of his fenfes while they lafted, and leave him fo weak that 
hje was fcarcely able to crawl down ftaits: at this time, Dr. 
Bolander’s 
