INSPECTION OF THE SHIP, 397 



ing- to the rank and wealth of the owner. The 

 cutting portion of the blade is formed of steel, 

 the remainder of iron ; the temper of the weapons 

 is not good, being extremely brittle. 



The rajah was attired in the same apparel 

 as on our interview yesterday, but his followers 

 formed, in dress, a motley group. There was a 

 fine looking lad, about fourteen years of age, 

 who came with the party ; he was step-brother 

 to the rajah, or, as we were informed by a Moor- 

 man who spoke some English, '■'- one father, two 

 mothers, rajah, and this hoy ;" he was dressed 

 in a scarlet jacket, decorated with gold lace, a 

 handsome kris, and wore gold bangles around 

 his ancles. The young rajah ran about the 

 ship, seeming to enjoy all he beheld ; mistook 

 the sow (who behayed remarkably well on this 

 occasion, neither grunting nor giving any indi- 

 cations of the suspicious family to which she be- 

 longed, but set upon her haunches gazing un- 

 meaningly at the visitors, who held her race in 

 abhorrence) for a kind of dog ; and was de- 

 lighted with the turkies, which he had never 

 seen before. A pair of the birds were presented 

 to him, and also a sheep, at which he was much 

 gratified. 



Our thin spare friend, the " trading minister, " 

 and also a train of attendants and merchants, 



