32S VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



plain, but in a fmall quantity, fome maize, 

 fugar-cancs, and yellow millet (hQlchus forg- 

 hum). 



Wc paflcii the night in a bamboo habitation, 

 where the greatefl cleanlinefs prevailed. It was 

 built quite clofe to that of the Deman. 



The next day, the 13th, wc took up our quar- 

 ters at the weltern extremity of this village, in 

 the diftricl under the dependency of the Tomo- 

 gon of Banguil, who refided upwards of a my- 

 riameter and half from the place where we 

 were, and who neverthelefs arrived in the morn- 

 \\M\ to c;ivc the inhabitants orders to watch over 

 our perfonal fafety, and to furnilli us with 

 fuch provifions as we mjght Mant. 



This Tomogon was a man of fenfe; he fpoke 

 Dutch fluently, and was very well acquainted 

 with the news of Europe. Being a Chinefe by 

 birth, he had been obliged to embrace the Ma- 

 hometan relio;ion in order to obtain the title 

 of Toinogon. 



We were terribly fatigued with the journey 

 we liad made the day before, on very fmall 

 horfcs, like all thofe of this ifland. Their trot, 

 Avhich is extremely rough, had incommoded us 

 the more, as the faddlcs that wc had been 

 obliged to make ufe of were not nuiled ; they 

 were made of very hard v.ood, covered only with 



a thin 



