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rice, bananas, ginger, fugar-canes, oranges, lemons, almonds, and French beans ; andwax is alfo abundant.

We call anchor off that part of the ifland on which are fome villages inhabited bytheir chiefs. In another quarter of the ifland are the refidences of four brothers, whoare its kings. The villages where thefe refidences are, are called Orbilh, Lichfana, Sinai,and Cabanaza ; the firft of them the moft confiderable. We were told that a mountainnear Cabanaza produces abundance of gold, and that the inhabitants purchafe with thegrains of it they colled!:, whatever articles they Hand in need of. Here it is that thepeople of Malucca carry on a traffic in fandal wood and wax. We found there, like-wife, a junk newly come from Lozon, to load with fandal wood.

Thefe people are Gentiles. They told us that when they go to cut fandal wood ademon prefents himfelf under different forms, and afks them in a very courteous mannerwhat it is they want. But notwithftanding his civil demeanor the apparition frightensthem fo much that they are always ill in confequence for feveral days together *. Theycut fandal at particular phases of the moon, at which alone it is good. The merchan-dize belt fuited for bartering for fandal is red doth, linen, axes, nails, and iron.

The ifland is wholly inhabited ; it extends conliderably from eaft to weft, but fromnorth to fouth is very narrow. It lies in latitude ten degrees fouth, longitude from theline of demarcation one hundred and feventy-four degrees thirty minutes.

In all the iflands of this archipelago viftted by us, and in this more than any other,the malady of Saint Job is very prevalent. It is called, For Franchi, that is to lay, thePortugueze difeafe f.

We were told that at a day’s fail weft-north-weft of Timor is an ifland called Ende,where much cinnamon grows. The inhabitants of it are Gentiles, and have no king.Near it is a chain of iflands ftretching as far as Java Major and the Cape of. Malacca,the names of which are, Ende, Tanabuton, Crenochile, Birmacore, Azanaran, Main,Zubava, Lumboch, Chorum, and Java Major, which the inhabitants call Jaoa, and notJava.

The largeft villages of this part of the world are in Java, and the chief one is calledMugepaher, the King of which, while living, was reputed thegreateft monarch of theiflands of this part; his name was Rajah Patiunus Sunda. Much pepper is gatheredhere. The other iflands are, Dahaduma, Gagiamada, Minutarangam, Ciparifidain,Tubancreffi, and Cirubaia. Half a league diftant from Java Major are the iflands ofBali, called Little Java and Madura : thefe two iflands are of fimilar dimenfions.

We were told that it is cuftomary in Java to burn the bodies of the chiefs who die;and for the wife cherilhed moft to be burnt alive in the fame fire. Adorned withgarlands of flowers, fli.e caufes herfelf to be carried by four men on a feat through thetown, and, with a tranquil and finding countenance, comforts the relations who bewailher approaching end, telling them, “ I am going this evening to fup with my hufband,and lhall fleep with him to-night.” On her arrival at the funeral pile flie again com-forts them with fimilar fpeeches, and throws herfelf into the confirming flames. Were

* Bomare fays that the people employed in felling the fandal tree (fantalum album, Linn.) are much•affefted by a miafmata, or rather effluvia which exhale from the tree.

f Were the malady of St. Job, a3 fufpected to be, another defignation for the venereal difeafe, it lShere found in the Moluccas and the Philippines at the beginning of the fifteenth century ; and as it is herecalled the Fortuguefe difeafe, we are led to conclude that it was carried thither by that nation. It I s in 'deed true that the term Franchi is appropriate to all Europeans ; but it is alfo true that of thefe the P° r 'tuguefc was.the only people which, till this expedition, had vifited the Southern Ifltnds. However the.malady of Saint Job may poffibly be the term here applied to the kprofy, a diforder common enough u*Afia. n

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