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man and the disgrace of a public execution, when he has taken 

 the law into his own hands, and too hastily revenged himself 

 upon his enemy ? In either case he chooses rather to " amok." 



The great staples of the trade of Lombock as well as of 

 Bali are rice and coffee ; the former grown on the plains, the 

 latter on the hills. The rice is exported very largely to other 

 islands of the Archipelago, to Singapore, and even to China, 

 and there are generally one or more vessels loading in the port. 

 It is brought into Ampanam on pack-horses, and almost every 

 day a string of these would come into Mr. Carter's yard. 

 The only money the natives will take for their rice is Chinese 

 copper cash, twelve hundred of which go to a dollar. Every 

 morning two large sacks of this money had to be counted out 

 into convenient sums for payment. From Bali quantities of 

 dried beef and ox-tongues are exported, and from Lombock a 

 good many ducks and ponies. The ducks are a peculiar breed, 

 which have very long flat bodies, and walk erect almost like 

 penguins. They are generally of a pale reddish ash color, 

 and are kept in large flocks. They are very cheap, and are 

 largely consumed by the crews of the rice-shij^s, by whom 

 they are called Bali soldiers, but are more generally known 

 elsewhere as penguin-ducks. 



My Portuguese bird-stuffer Fernandez now insisted on 

 breaking his agreement and returning to Singapore ; partly 

 from home-sickness, but more, I believe, from the idea that 

 his life w;as not worth many months' purchase among such 

 bloodthirsty and uncivilized peoples. It was a considerable 

 loss to me, as I had paid him full three times the usual wages 

 for three months in advance, half of which was occupied in 

 the voyage, and the rest in a place where I could have done 

 without him, owing to there being so few insects that I could 

 devote my own time to shooting and skinning. A few days 

 after Fernandez had left, a small schooner came in bound for 

 Macassar, to which place I took a passage. As a fitting con- 

 clusion to my sketch of these interesting islands, I will narrate 

 an anecdote which I heard of the present Rajah; and which, 

 whether altogether true or not, well illustrates native charac- 

 ter, and will serve as a means of introducing some details of 

 the manners and customs of the country to which I have not 

 yet alluded. 



