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accompanied the rajah ; the former antiquated 

 personage brought with him his son, a little boy 

 about four or five years old ; he was a keen, 

 black-eyed little fellow, wore a Moorman's cap 

 elegantly worked with gold lace, on his little 

 shaved cranium ; a scarlet jacket and trowsers, 

 a number of gold and silver bangles about his 

 wrists and ancles, and an amulet or charm (which 

 consists of a sentence from the Koran, written 

 and placed in a case, to protect the wearer 

 from injury — the priests make a good harvest 

 in this kind of traffic, which appears to me strictly 

 analogous to the African fetishes) pended from 

 his neck ; the dark diminutive creature chattered 

 incessantly, and was inquisitive about every 

 thing it saw ; appeared devoid of fear, and was 

 quite tame, suffering itself to be handled with 

 impunity. 



After all our sable visitors had concluded 

 their rambles over, and inspection of, the ship, 

 they were invited into the cuddy, seated 

 round the table, and cabin biscuit and cheese 

 were placed before them. They evinced some par- 

 tiality to the former, by devouring large quan- 

 tities themselves, and passing supplies to the 

 numerous attendants who could not feed at the 

 table ; they could not be induced thus pub- 

 licly to taste wine or beer, being against 



