142 TRAVELS IN THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



merely a comniou arm-cliair, with a bamboo fastened 

 on each side. A light roof and curtains on the sides 

 keep out the rain or hot sunshine. Usually eight 

 or more coolies are detailed to each chair, so that one- 

 half may relieve the others every few moments. The 

 motion is much like that on horseback, when the 

 horse is urged into a hurried walk, and is neither 

 extremely unpleasant nor so very delightful as some 

 writers who have visited these islands have described 

 it. In China, where only two coolies carry a chair, the 

 motion is far more resfular and ao-reeable. This is 

 the only mode of travelling in all the islands where 

 horses have not been introduced, and where all the 

 so-called roads are mere narrow footpaths, except in 

 the villages. 



From the shore we climbed two hills, and on 

 their crests passed through gardens of cocoa-trees."^ 

 The road then was bordered on either side with 

 rows of pine-apples, Ananassa sativa, a third exotic 

 from tropical America. It thrives so well in e very- 

 part of the archipelago, -xvithout the slightest care, 

 that it is very difficult to realize that it is not an 

 indigenous plant. The native names all point out 

 its origin. The Malays and Javanese call it oianas, 

 which is merely a corruption of the Portuguese ana- 

 nassa. In Celebes it is sometimes c2iRe^ pandang, a 

 corruption oi pandanus, from the marked similarity 



* This name must not be confounded with that of the cocoa-nut- 

 tree, or Cocos micifera, which is a palm. The word cocoa is supposed 

 to have been derived from tlie Portuguese word macoco or macaco^ a 

 monkey, and to have been applied to the cocoa-mit palm, from a fancied 

 resemblance between the end of the sliell, where the three black scars 

 occur, and the face of a monkey. 



