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240 JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE
neral ores, 8$c, with which they were much gra-
tified, and left me with the strongest assurances
of every support in their power. When they had
left me they applied privately to my interpreter
to know if I had any skill in the obstetric art, as
one of the prince's favourite wives laboured under
a complaint which baffled all the art of their
practitioners. This is not the first time I have
had occasion to regret the absence of my surgeon
on the public account.
May 24. In the morning early, I sent my letter
for the prince to his whoon at the looto. He
told my interpreter, that at one p.m., he should
send for Moncourtuse to translate it; and would
send for him at the same time, that he might be
present as a check on him. It appears, however,
that Moncourtuse has been out all day, whether
by accident or design I don't know; but it has
prevented any thing being done to-day. About
noon the chobwa's son, See, called ; the former
had long expressed a wish to have an European
suit of clothes, we therefore dressed him out to-
day in a very gay style. He recalled to my mind
Omai, whom I recollect having seen in England.
Indeed there is a great resemblance between
these people and the natives of the Malayan
Islands, as they are generally called; but of that
more hereafter, as I am not yet sufficiently pre-
pared to discuss the various points of analogy.
neral ores, 8$c, with which they were much gra-
tified, and left me with the strongest assurances
of every support in their power. When they had
left me they applied privately to my interpreter
to know if I had any skill in the obstetric art, as
one of the prince's favourite wives laboured under
a complaint which baffled all the art of their
practitioners. This is not the first time I have
had occasion to regret the absence of my surgeon
on the public account.
May 24. In the morning early, I sent my letter
for the prince to his whoon at the looto. He
told my interpreter, that at one p.m., he should
send for Moncourtuse to translate it; and would
send for him at the same time, that he might be
present as a check on him. It appears, however,
that Moncourtuse has been out all day, whether
by accident or design I don't know; but it has
prevented any thing being done to-day. About
noon the chobwa's son, See, called ; the former
had long expressed a wish to have an European
suit of clothes, we therefore dressed him out to-
day in a very gay style. He recalled to my mind
Omai, whom I recollect having seen in England.
Indeed there is a great resemblance between
these people and the natives of the Malayan
Islands, as they are generally called; but of that
more hereafter, as I am not yet sufficiently pre-
pared to discuss the various points of analogy.