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It is melancholy to add, that of two hundred and nineteen people, ninety-nine had died before my arrival in the Ile of France. But it mut be oberved, that we lot but few people in the coure of our voyage, and that the dreadful mortality which we experienced was owing to our long tay in the iland of Java.