ed and obtained leave to have our wants supplied,
which were to recruit our provisions, and to get a any mainmast, having
sprung ours in the passage from Sourabaya.

Samarang is a fortified town surrounded by a wall and ditch, and is the
most considerable settlement next to Batavia that the Dutch have in Java.
Here is a very good hospital and a public school, chiefly for teaching
the mathematics. They have likewise a theatre. Provisions are remarkably
cheap here, beef being at ten doits per pound and the price of a fowl 12
doits.

I experienced great civility from some of the gentlemen at Samarang,
particularly from M. le Baron de Bose, a merchant, brother to the M. de
Bose, commandant of the troops at Sourabaya: and from M. Abegg, the
surgeon of the hospital, to whom we were indebted for advice and
medicines for which he would not consent to receive payment.

The latitude of Samarang is 6 degrees 57 minutes. Longitude by my
reckoning from Cape Sandana 4 degrees 7 minutes west.

Saturday 26.

On the 26th we sailed from Samarang and with us a galley mounting six
swivels which the governor had directed to accompany us to Batavia.

October. Thursday 1.

On the 1st of October we anchored in Batavia road, where we found riding
a Dutch ship of war and 20 sail of Dutch East India ships, besides many
smaller vessels.

CHAPTER 20.

Occurrences at Batavia and Passage thence to England.

OCTOBER 1789.

In the afternoon at four o'clock I went on shore and landed at a house by
the river where strangers first stop and give an account who they are,
whence they came, etc. From this place a Malay gentleman took me in a
carriage to Sabandar, Mr. Engelhard, whose house was in the environs of
the city on the side nearest the shipping. The Sabandar is the officer
with whom all strangers are obliged to transact their business: at least
the whole must go through his hands. With him I went to pay my respects
to the governor-general who received me with great civility. I acquainted
his excellency with my situation and requested my people might be taken
care of and that we should be allowed to take a passage to Europe in the
first ship that sailed. I likewise desired permission to sell the
schooner and launch. All this his excellency told me should be granted. I
then took leave and returned with the Sabandar who wrote down the
particulars of my wants in order to form from them a regular petition to
be presented to the council the