,C O O K’s VOYAGE. 
/tree, yi the fame manner, and is fold in three dates, The 
^jirft, in which it is called Tuac inanife, differs little from that 
which it comes from the tree ; yet even this fas received 
dome preparation altogether unknown to us, in confequence of 
which it will keep eight and forty hours, though otherwifeit 
would fpoil in twelve : in this date it has an agreeable fweet- 
jaefs and will not intoxicate. In the other two hates it has un- 
dergone a fermentation, and received an infufion of certain 
herbs and roots, by which it loofes its fweetnefs, and acquires 
a talle very auftere -and difagreeable. In one of thefe ftates it 
is called Tuac eras, and in the other Tuac cunning, but the fpe- 
cific difference I do noiknovv ; in both, however, it intoxi- 
cates very powerfully, A liquor called Tuac is alio mate 
(from the cocoa-mit tree, but this is ufed chiefly to put into .the 
■arrack, for in that which is good it is an effential ingredient. 
CHAP. XIV. 
Scene Account of the Inhabitants of Bat ami a, and the adjacent 
Country, their Manners, Cti/lomS , and Manner cf Lije. 
T il E town of Batavia, although, as I have already ob- 
forved, it is .the capital of the- Dutch dominions in In- 
dia, is fo far from being peopled .with Dutchmen, that not 
one fifth part, even of the European inhabitants of the towr, 
and its environs, are natives of Holland, or of Dutch extrac- 
tion : the greater part are Portuguefe, and hefides Europeans, 
there are Indians of various nations, and Chinefe, Sefides 
a great number of negro Haves. In the troops, there are na- 
tives of almoft every country in Europe, but the .Germans are 
more than all the red put together ; there are fome Englilh and 
^French, but the Dutch, though other Europeans are permitted 
fo get.money here, ‘keep all the power' in their own hands, 
>and con-fequently'poffefs all public employments. No mar, 
of whatever nation, can come hither to fettle, in any othfer 
character than that of a foldier in the Company’s fervice, in 
.which, before they are accepted, they muff covenant to re- 
main five years. As foon 'however, as this form has been 
'complied with, they are allowed, upon application to the 
council, to abfent themfelves from their corps, and enter im- 
mediately into any branch of trade, which their money or cre- 
dit will enable them to carry on and by this means it is that 
all the’ white inhabitants of the place are foldiers. 
W.orcen, however, of all nations, are permitted to fettle 
he re, without coming under any reflriclions ; yet we were told 
$GTit were not, when when we were at Batavia, twenty 
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