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both were in attendance. The Malay has a much 

 more open countenance than the Timoree, but is not 

 so handsome, the latter having a more aquiline nose. 



When they all arrived I counted fifty armed men. 

 There were some whose grey hairs proclaimed their 

 lengthened years ; though there was a keenness in 

 their eyes that revealed that the principle of vitality 

 vras strong within them yet; in others all the dash 

 and vigour of youth was perceptible ; many had a 

 truly wild appearance, with their long bushy hair 

 and ever restless eye. It was a picturesque sight 

 to behold fifty such fine fellows scattered about in 

 small groups in the deep shade of these solitudes. 



All the necessary arrangements being made, we 

 once more started. An hour's walk brought us to 

 a rather large plain, where I and my companions were 

 stationed, about a hundred yards asunder, whilst the 

 rest of the party formed a circle, driving all the game 

 in our direction. Unfortunately those on the left 

 commenced hallooing before those on the right, in 

 which latter direction the only three deer in the 

 circle ran from the noise, instead of towards us. 

 Two of them were shot, and by the stone bolts 

 above mentioned. We now went to fresh ground, 

 when, provoking to say, the same thing happened 

 again, not without our suspicions being raised that 

 this was purposely contrived ; so that after all we 

 were obliged to leave without a single shot. Each 

 deer, the largest of which, a doe, must have weighed 

 a hundred pounds, was shot standing^ for the natives 



