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337.
Septr. 1770.    Savu.

was that the entertainer never sets down to meat with his guests  however if we suspected the victuals to be poisoned he would willingly do it  we suspected nothing & therefore desire'd that all things might go as usual  we all sat then sitting down we eat with a good appetites  the Prime Minister & Myheer Lange partaking with us  our wine passd briskly about  the Radja alone refusing to drink with us saying that it was wrong for the master of the feast to be in liquer  The pork was excellent  the Rice as good  the broth not bad  the spoons only which were made of leaves were so small that few of us had patience to eat it  every one however made a hearty dinner & as soon as we had done removd as the custom it seems was to let the Servants & Seamen take our Places  these could not dispach all  but when the women came to take away they forcd them to take away with them all the Pork that was left.

Before dinner Mynheer Lange had mentiond to us a letter which he had in the morn receivd from the Governor of Timor  the particulars of it were now discussd  it acquainted him that a ship had been seen off that Island & had

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