nd our first care was employed in sending to the hospital the
sickly remains of our unfortunate crew. Some dead bodies floating down
the canal struck our boat, which had a very disagreeable effect on the
minds of our brave fellows, whose nerves were reduced to a very weak
state from sickness. This was a _coup de grace_ to a sick man on his
_premier entree_ into this painted sepulchre, this golgotha of Europe,
which buries the whole settlement every five years.

It is not the climate I am inveighing against; it is the Gothic,
diabolical ideas of the people I indite.

Were they only Dutchmen who supplied the ravenous maw of death, it would
be impertinence in me to make any comment on it; but when the whole globe
lends its aid to supply this destructive settlement, and its baneful
effects arising more from the letch a Dutchman has for stagnant mud than
from climate, I hope the indulgent reader will pardon my spleen, when I
tell them professionally that all the mortality of that place originates
from marsh effluvia, arising from their stagnant canals and
pleasure-grounds.

The Chinese are here the Jews of the East, and as soon as they make their
fortune, they go home. Let the amateurs of the Republican system read and
learn. Be not surprised when it is observed, that these little great men,
those vile hawkers of spice and nutmegs, exact a submission that the most
absolute and tyrannical monarch who ever swayed a sceptre would be
ashamed of. The compass of my work will not allow me to be particular;
but I must instance one among many others. When an edilleer, or one of
the supreme council, meets a carriage, the gentleman who meets him must
alight, and make him a perfect bow in spirit; not one of Bunburry's long
bows, but that bow which carries humility and submission in it, that sort
of bow which every vertebrae in an English back is anchylosed against.

In our passage from this to the Cape, before we left Java, one of the
convicts had jumped over board in the night, and swam to the Dutch
arsenal at Honroost. In passing Bantan, we viewed the relics of Lord
Cathcart. We met nothing particular in passing the island of Sumatra, but
experienced great death and sickness in going through the Straits of
Sunda; and after a tedious passage, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.

Here we met with many civilities from Colonel Gordon; a gentleman no less
eminent for his private virtues than his extraordinary military and
literary accomp