THE CUTTER REACHES TIMOR LAUT. 443 



After driving about for fifteen days on the ocean, 

 they descried land which they took to be Timor ; 

 they went on shore and procured some water and 

 cocoa nuts ; but afterwards pursuing their course 

 along the coast, they were attacked by a number 

 of native proas, and being worn out with fatigue, 

 and without any arms to defend themselves, they 

 were forced to surrender. The natives upset the 

 boat, and stripped them of all their clothes, after 

 which they were brought on shore, where the natives 

 at first seemed inclined to kill them, but through 

 the intercession of two chiefs, named Pabok and 

 Lomba, their lives were spared. 



They afterwards learnt, that they were at the 

 native village of Oliliet, in the island of Timor 

 Laut ; part of their clothes were given back to them, 

 and they were well treated, without being compelled 

 by the natives to perform any labour ; their suste- 

 nance consisted of Indian corn, yams, a little rice 

 and some fish, but the quantities given them were 

 only just sufficient to keep them alive. 



During their abode in this island, they learnt 

 that in one of the neiffhbourinof settlements called 

 Laouran, at that period at war with the one in 

 which they lived, there was another European, 

 formerly belonging to an English brig, that had 

 been wrecked seven years ago, and of whose crew 

 he, and a boy since dead, had alone been spared 

 by their savage captors. 



After remaining more than thirteen months at 



