202 COOK’s voyage. 
live red up as a courtefy, though he could not be demanded ar 
a right; but that if I found he was an Englilh fubjeft, I would 
keep him at all events. Upon thefe terms we parted, and foon 
after I received a letter from Mr. Hicks, containing indutiabler 
proof that the feaman in queftion was afubjed of his Britannic 
Majefty. This letter I immediately carried to the Shebander, 
with a requeft that it might be fhewn to the Governor, and 
that his Excellency might at the fame time be told, I would 
not upon any terms part with the man. This had the defsred' 
effedt, and I heard no more of the affair. 
In the evening, I went on board, accompanied by Mr. 
Banks, and the reft of the gentlemen who had conltantly re- 
fided on Ihore, and who, though better, were not yet per- 
fectly recovered. 
At fix in the morning, of the 26th, we weighed and fet fail, 
with a light breeze at S. W. The Elgin Indiaman faluted us 
with three cheers and thirteen guns, and the garrifon with 
fourteen, both which, with the help of ourfwivels, we returned, 
and foon after the fea breeze fet in at N. by W. which obliged 
us to anchor juft without the fhips in the Road. 
At this time, the number of fick on board amounted to forty, 
and the reft of the Ihip’s company were in a very feeble con- 
dition. Every individual had been lick except the fail-maker, 
an old man between feventy and eighty years of age, and it is 
very reparkable that this old man, during our ftay at this place, 
was cdnftantly drunk every day: we had burned feven, the 
furgeon, three feamen, Mr. Green’s fervant, Tupia, andTayeto 
his boy. All but Tupia fell a facrifice to the unwholefome, 
ftagnant, putrid air of the country, and he who from his birth 
had been ufed to fubfift chiefly upon vegetable food, particu- 
larly ripe fruit, loon contracted all the diforders that are inci- 
dene to a fea life, and would probably have funk under them 
before we could have completed onr voyage, if we had not 
been obliged to go to Batavia to refit. 
CHAP. XIII. 
Same Account of Batavia, and the adjacent Country ; with the:' 
Fruits, Flowers, and other Production's. 
B ATAVIA, the capital of the Dutch dominions in India, 
and generally fuppofed to have no equal among all the 
pofleflions of the Europeans in Afia, is fituated on the north 
fide of the iflanH of Java, in a low fenny plain, where feveral 
fmall rivers, which take their rife in the mountains called 
Blaeuwen Berg, about forty miles up the country, empty them- 
felvcs 
