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This contraband trade is chiefly carried on 

 by the canoes of Ceram, that large ifland being 

 very clofe to the fpice iflands ; what comes from, 

 them is fold to Englifh vefTels, which furnifh in 

 exchange India muflin, opium, fire-arms, gun- 

 powder, lead, articles of hardware, and tin, 

 which lad the inhabitants of Ceram greatly value, 

 and of which they make bracelets, ear-rings, &c: 

 fome of thele articles are afterwards refold at 

 Amboyna. 



The Dutch have two,factories at Ceram ; one 

 at its fouth-weft extremity, and the other at 

 Sava'i. Admiral Bougainville had been milin- 

 formed in ftating that they had been driven 

 away from this latter poft. They have, indeed, 

 loll very extenfive pofleflions in the other parts 

 of that large ifland, but this one they have pre- 

 ferved. 



The refident who received Bougainville at 

 the time of his flay at Bouro, had been dead 

 fevcral years. We had the pleafare of feeing at 

 Amboyna his widow, who flill preferred an, 

 "agreeable recollection of the flay of the French. 

 Her fondnefs for our language had induced her 

 to employ all the refources v/hich the had been 

 able to find, {0 far from Europe, to have it 

 taught to her children. ' - 



The Chinefe are almoft the only foreigners 

 whom the Dutch allow to relide in Amboyna ; 



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