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Cramer, who was prevented by a sharp attack of fever 

 from coming with us. He was the one other man, 

 beside Rawhng, Marshall and myself, who remained 

 with the expedition from the beginning to the end, 

 and it is not paying him an empty compliment to 

 say that few other people would have managed more 

 successfully than he did to live with a party of foreigners 

 in circumstances, which were often exceedingly difficult. 



We sailed from Amboina on April 17th in the mail 

 steamer Van Riebeeck, and amongst our fellow-passengers 

 we found Captain Van der Bie and Lieut. Van der 

 Wenn (Netherlands Navy), both of whom were re- 

 turning to Java invalided from the expedition to the 

 Island River in New Guinea. The expedition had 

 penetrated a long way into the interior of the country, 

 but all the Europeans fell ill and the expedition was 

 withdrawn a few months later. 



After calling at Macassar we went South past the 

 Postilion Islands to the little known island of Sumbawa, 

 where we went ashore for a few hours at Sumbawa 

 Pesar. It looked a pretty country with well-wooded 

 hills and level cultivated plains. We were much struck 

 by the appearance of the natives, who have a longer 

 type of face and a much fairer skin than any other of 

 the Malay races I have seen. The men all go armed 

 with a kris, and they smoke cigars of an incredible 

 length. 



From Sumbawa we steamed along the Northern 

 shore of Lombok, from whose Peak (12,000 feet), the 

 clouds rolled off magnificently at sunset, and early 

 the next morning we came into the harbour of Bulehng 



