310 TRAVELS IN THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



island anew, and destroy all tli(3 trees whicli had 

 sprung up from seed planted by birds. Another 

 such piece of selfishness it would be difficult to find 

 in all history. The result of this agreement and this 

 policy has been that, for a considerable number of 

 years, the income of the government in the Moluccas 

 and Bandas, taken together, has not been nearly 

 equal to its expenses in these islands ; and it is now 

 evident to all that very much has been lost by this 

 ungenerous and exclusive mode of trade. 



On landing at this village I found a pleasant 

 residence with a good English lady, the second it 

 had been my good fortune to meet since I left Java. 

 After living so long among a people speaking an- 

 other language, it is a privilege indeed to hear 

 one's native tongue spoken without a foreign accent, 

 and to converse with a person whose religion, educa- 

 tion, and views of life accord with one's own. On 

 these outer borders of civilization, Americans and 

 Englishmen are — as we ought to be everywhere — 

 members of the same family. 



The same afternoon, as it was clear, I rode with 

 an officer up the mountain to a summer-house, two 

 thousand four hundred feet above the sea. From 

 this high position we had a fine view over the 

 wide bay of Dodinga, formed by the opposite re 

 treating coast of Gilolo. High mountains are seen 

 to rise in the interior, and several of these are said 

 to be volcanoes, either active or extinct. In the 

 northern part of the island, opposite the island of 

 Morti, the Resident informed me that there was a 

 crater which, according to the accounts given him 



