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members of these long- tailed Celestials amused them- 

 selves by letting off squibs and crackers amongst the 

 passers-by. The entire population of the island seemed 

 to have flocked to the town, — there were crowds which- 

 ever way one turned. A. quantity of fruit was exhibi- 

 ted for sale, oranges, guavas, and the jamboo, or Malay 

 rose-apple [Jamhosa vulgaris), (Plate XX.), a delicious 

 fruit of slightly acid taste, and in appearance like 

 a small tomato. 



The Moor contents himself with a very small square 

 space for his shop, where he squats cross-legged, dressed 

 in a sort of petticoat, dark jacket, and a pot-shaped 

 cap, generally striped. Here he patiently waits for a 

 purchaser ; but he has not the civility of his race in the 

 Levant, where a customer is seldom allowed to go away 

 without a cup of coffee, and often a pipe, having been 

 offered to him. I entered a large bazaar kept by a 

 Chinaman, whose Josse, an immense figure of Buddha, 

 about twelve feet high, in sitting posture, was placed 

 in a recess upon a raised platform, a quantity of incense 

 burning all round ; here I bought a few articles, amongst 

 which the well-known Penang-laAvyer (Licuala peltata), 

 a small palm, six to eight feet high, making excellent 

 walking-sticks, a portion of the root being left to form a 

 handle. The Chinaman in the tropics generally wears 

 white trousers and long jacket, his pig-tail either 



