'A New Account of the East-Indies: Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton who resided in those parts from the Year 1688, to 1723, Trading and Travelling, by Sea and Land, to most of the countries and Islands of Commerce and Navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japan. The Second Edition. Volume II.' [‎89] (108/362)

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of the Leg by a Centifee, an Infeft withma-
ny r eet, and very venomous. The Pain that
the Jiue caufed would allow him no Reft.
Next Day he expected that the Venom miffht
have heen exhaulled, but in that he was mi-
ftaken, for it grew firft red by Inflamation,
and then blue and nummed. I fent for the
Doctor aforelaid, who came on the firftSum-
mons. I told him of the Accident that had
happened, and he faid there was no Dan sen
He law the inflamed Leg, and kept his Hand
moving over it, but did not touch it He
muttered feme unintelligible Words, and fpit
on the Place affected, and in five Minutes
he could walk without Pain, tho' before the
Cure, he could not ftand without fomethine
to lupport him.
A Nl i fi" 06 , 1 haye been mentioning the
cots Eaft-mdm Ship and her Supercargoes,
I will give a fmall Account of the Manage
ment of their Affairs in India. They arrived
at Batavta about the Beginning of July 1701
but being taken up with the Pleafures of the
rlace, loured away near a Month of their
lime, which had been much better fpent in
piolecuting their \ oyage to China: Howe-
ver, by the Beginning of September, thev
icacht the Coal! of China, where meetins;
with a Tujfoon, or a North-eaft Storm, that
often blows violently about that Seafon, they
were forced to bear away for where
they itaid about two Months, and then came
to Malacca, where they had a Mind to clean
their