lishments. From his labours, all the host of voyagers and
historians of that part of the globe have been purloining; but it is to
be hoped the world will, at some future period, be favoured with his
works unmutilated.

The town is gay, and from length of habit, the inhabitants partake much
of the manners of Bath; and, for a short season, behave with the utmost
attention and tenderness. Their dress and customs are more characteristic
of the English than Dutch. An uncommon rage for building has lately
prevailed; and although they cannot boast of that chastity of style in
which Samarang is built it is gaudy, and calculated to please the
generality of observers.

Allow me to mention the singular manner in which the monkeys make
depredations on the gardens here. They place a proper piquet, or advanced
guard, as sentinels, when a party is drawn up in a line, who hand the
fruit from one to another; and when the alarm is given by the
piquet-guard, they all take flight, making sure that by that time the
booty is conveyed to a considerable distance. But should the piquet be
negligent in their duty, and suffer the main body to be surprised, the
delinquents are severely punished.

The same ill-fated rage for canalling-murder prevails here. They have
even contrived to carry canals to the top of a mountain. The boors, or
country-farmers, are a species of the human race, so gigantic and
superior to the rest of mankind, in point of size and constitution, that
they may be called nondescripts.

Their hospital, as to scite, surpasses any in the world. It may be
observed, however, that the architect, by the smallness of the windows,
which only serve to exclude the light and air, seems to have studied,
with much ingenuity, to render it a cadaverous stinking prison.

After being refreshed at the Cape, we passed St. Helena, the island of
Ascension, and arrived at Holland; and had the happiness, through the
interposition of divine Providence, to be again landed on our native
shore.

The Latitudes and Longitudes of the different places touched at or
discovered by his Majesty's ship _Pandora_, taken with the greatest
accuracy from the centre of the islands.

Names of Places. Latitudes. Longitudes.

Gomera, | 28 5 N | 17 8 W
Canary, N.E. point, | 28 13 N | 15 38 W
Teneriffe, Santa Cruz, | 28 27 N | 16 16