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have occasional houses there for their accommoda- 

 tion. They are exactly the same as the houses in 

 the town, except that they are smaller, and are ele- 

 vated eight or ten feet above the ground instead of 

 four. 



The disposition of the people, as far as we could 

 discover it, is good. They dealt with us very 

 honestly, except, like all other Indians, and the 

 itinerant retailers of fish in London, they asked some- 

 times twice, and sometimes thrice as much for their 

 commodities as they would take. As what they 

 brought to market, belonged, in dhTerent propor- 

 tions, to a considerable number of the natives, and 

 it would have been difficult to purchase it in separate 

 lots, they found out a very easy expedient with 

 which every one was satisfied : they put all that was 

 bought of one kind, as plantains, or cocoa-nuts, to- 

 gether, and when we had agreed for the heap, they 

 divided the money that was paid for it, among those 

 of whose separate property it consisted, in a propor- 

 tion corresponding with their contributions. Some- 

 times, indeed, they changed our money, giving us 

 240 doits, amounting to five shillings for a Spanish 

 dollar, and ninety-six, amounting to two shillings, 

 for a Bengal rupee. 



They all speak the Malay language, though they 

 have a language of their own, different both from 

 the Malay and the Javanese. Their own language 

 they call Catta Gimung, the language of the moun- 

 tains; and they say that it is spoken upon the moun- 

 tains of Java, whence their tribe originally migrated, 

 first to Mew Bay, and then to their present station, 

 being driven from their first settlement by tygers, 

 which they found too numerous to subdue. 1 have 

 already observed, that several languages are spoken 

 by the native Javenese, in different parts of their 

 island ; but when I say that the language of these 

 people is different from the Javenese, I mean that it 

 is different from the language which is spoken at 



