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Batavia

melancholy necessity of depending intirely upon the Malays for nursing us, all of whoom were often sick together

24. We had for some nights now had the wind on the western board, generaly attended with some rain  thunder & lightning, this night it blew strong at SW., & raind &c. harder than ever I saw it before for 3 or 4 hours, Our house raind in in every part, & through the lower part of it ran a stream almost capable of turning a mill, in the morn I went to Batavia, where the quantities of Bedding that I every where saw hung up to dry, made a very uncommon sight, for every house that I was acquainted with, & I was told almost every house in the town & neighbourhood, sufferd more or less, this was certainly the shifting of the Monsoon, for the winds which had before been contantly to the Eastward,
 

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