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417.
Novr. 1770.   Batavia

necessary for our recovery, so we began to look out for a countrey house, tho with a heavy heart, as we knew that we must there commit ourselves intirely to the care of the Malays, whose behavior to sick people we had all the reason in the world to find fault with, for this reason we resolvd to buy each of us a Malay Woman to Nurse us, hoping that the tenderness of of the sex would prevail even here, which indeed we found it to do, for they turnd out by no means bad nurses.

11. We receivd the news of Tupias death, I had given him quite over ever since his boy died, whoom I well knew he sincerely lovd, tho he usd to find much fault with him during his life time

12. Dr Solander who had not yet intirely taken to his bed, returnd from airing this even extreemly ill; he went to bed immediately & I sat by him, & soon observd symptoms which alarmd me very much, I sent immed

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