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416.
Batavia

7. & the next day was buried. Dr Solander attended his funeral, & I should certainly have done the same had I not been confind to my bed by my fever  our case now became melancholy, neither of my Servants were able to help me no more than I was them, & the Malay Slaves who alone we depended upon, naturaly the worst attendants in nature, were render'd less carefull by our incapacity of scolding them on account of our ignorance of the language. when we became so sick that we could not help ourselves, they would get out of Call, so we were oblig'd to lie still till able to able to get up & go in search of them,

9. this day we receivd the disagreable news of the death of Tayeto, & that his death had so much affected Tupia, that there was little hopes of his surviving him many days

10. Dr Solander & myself still grew worse & worse, & the Physician who attended us declard that the countrey air was
 

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