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Bounty Logbook Remarks, Jul. 3-5, 1789

Remarks at Coupang Friday 3d to Sunday 5th July 1789

Fine Weather and fresh ESE Winds.

On the 3d I ordered the Carpenter to work on board His Majestys Schooner Resource.

Our health is yet not restablished. Four are ill with intermitting Fevers and myself subject to a great straitness across my breast. Bathing in the River before sun rise and walking in the cool of the day is the only remedy for the Convalescents. Our walks are confined to within 2 and 4 miles round the neighbourhood. In this circuit old Stone Walls and Fences are numerous and many Ruinates which seem to point out that at some distant period back this was a place better Cultivated and more thickly inhabited. The Roads are very stoney and the land every where covered with Brush Wood. Perhaps the finest Tamarind Trees in the World are to be found here. Every person if they have but a yard of Ground cultivate a few Plants of Tobacco they however from not knowing how to manufactor it, produce only a very poor Commodity. Gardening is the most neglected here that I ever saw it where any Europeans had been, a good Cabbage or bunch of Greens is not to be got.

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