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the Authority at Amboina that I was forced to leave behind 

 me the herbarium I had taken such pains to collect. The 

 skins I carried myself, leaving my own men free to assist with 

 the food sujoply. Reaching, with onr overburdened porters, 

 the little hamlet of AYasilale, where we had spent a night 

 on our coming, my comjoanion who was suffering from fever, 

 M'ished to remain till the attack had passed ; we agreed, there- 

 fore, that, as I was anxious to reach Kajeli before the arrival 



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of the Amboina steamer, I should press on in advance with 

 my own servants and baj^C'H.Gr^j ^nd on arrival at the Eloi 

 river send liim tlie necessary additional porters. On tlie fore- 

 noon of the fifth day from the Lake I reached the Wai Bloi 

 viHage, ^vhence I despatched assistance to my companion, and 

 reached Kajeli the same evening. 



I had hoped to be able to get across to the region in the 

 S.E. of the Bay of Kajeli, where alone in Burn the singular 

 Hog-deer (tl _ 



Celebes, was to be found ; but again I was disappointed for 

 want of porters and rowers. This singular animal uses its 

 curious upturned and hooked teeth, the natives told mo, to 

 hold to the bottom of ponds by, when hard pressed by hunters. 



So disappointed was I with my trip to Burn, from which 

 I had hoped much, and might have accomplished much but 

 for a display of absurd and potty jealousy, that I was glad 

 when the steamer of the 12th arrived from Batjian to carry me 

 back to Amboina, which was reached the same evening. 



rinding that Mr. Eiedel's attitude towards ns was such as to 

 make it quite useless to attempt to carry on any investiga- 

 tions in the islands of the Moluccas under his sway, I detcriuined 

 to leave for a time to attempt a journey in the interior of 

 the little known reirion of Timor under the Portuguese crown. 



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It is only fair to state that the conduct of the Besidcnt was 

 utterly repudiated by the Dutch Government in Java, and 

 on my arrival in Batavia, six months afterwards, I received 

 from them the kindest and most ample apologies. 



The steamer, from which I had just disembarked, having 

 to remain two days in Amboina, wo hastily packed up our 

 belongings and continued our voyage in the same vessel. The 

 friends through whom this last sojourn in Amboina had been 

 made so full of enjoyment, Mr, Justice and Madame Yan 



