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fame kind, application was immediately made to the King, 
who after fome altercation promifed that the ax fhould be re- 
ftored in the morning ; and kept his word, for it was brought 
to us by a man who pretended that the thief, being afraid cf 
a difcov^ry, had privately brought it, and left it at his hcufe 
in the night. 
We continued to purchrtfe between two and three hundred 
weight of turtle in a day, befides fowls and other neceffaries ; 
and in the evening of the 1 3th, having nearly completed our 
wood and water, Mr. Banks went alhore to take leave of his 
Majefty, to whom he had made feveral trifling prefents, and 
at parting gave him two quires of paper, which he gracioufly 
received. 'They had much conversation, in the courfe of 
which his Majefty enquired, why the Englifh did not touch 
there as they had been ufed to do. Mr. Banks replied, that 
he fuppofed it was becaufe they found a deficiency cf turtle, of 
which there not being enough to fupply one fbip, many could 
not be expedited. To fupply this defeft, he advifed his Majef- 
ty to breed cattle, buffaloes, and iheep, a meafure which he 
did not feem much inclined to adopt. 
On the 14th we made ready to fail, having on board a good 
flock of refrefhments, which we purchafed cf the natives, con- 
fiding of turtle, fowl, filh, two fpecies of deer, one as big as 
a iheep, the other not larger than a rabit ; with cocoa-nuts, 
plantains, limes, and other vegetables. The deer however 
ferved only for prefent ufe, for we could feldom keep one of ' 
them alive more than four and twenty hours after it was on 
board. On our part the trade was carried on chiefly with Spa- 
niih dollars, the natives feeming to let little value upon any 
thing elfe ; fothat our people, who had a general permiffion 
to trade, parted with old fhirts and other articles, which they 
were obliged to fubftitute for money to great difadvantage. 
In the morning of the 1 5 th we weighed, with a light breeze 
at N. E. and ftood out to fea. java Head, from which I 
took my departure, lies in latitude 6° Ag S., longitude 25 3 0 
12' W. 
Prince’s Iiland, where we lay about ten days, is, in the 
Malay language called Pulo Selan ; and in the language cf the 
inhabitants, Pulo Paneitan. It is a Small iiland, fnuated in 
the weftern mouth of the Streight of Sunda. It is woody, and 
a very fmall part of it only has been cleared : there is no re- 
markable hill upon it, yet the Englilh call the fmall eminence 
which is juft over the landing-place the pike. It was formerly 
much frequented by the India iliips of many nations, but efpe- 
cially thofe of England, which of late have forfaken it, as it 
is faid, becaufe the water is bad ; and touch either at North 
Iiland, a fmall iiland that lies on the coaft of Sumatra, without 
the eaft entrance of the Streight, or at New Bay, which lies 
