202 JEWELLERS OF PULO DOUW. 



human foot may be gazed on with pleasurable 

 emotions ; but there are always melancholy associa- 

 tions connected with a spot which our fellow - 

 creatures have once inhabited and abandoned. 



The natives we saw belonged to the southern 

 side of Tykale Inlet. They were occupied in looking 

 after some weirs, from the size and number of 

 which it would appear that they chiefly live on fish. 



The inhabitants of Pulo Douw are a small 

 wandering tribe from Savu, chiefly jewellers, as the 

 Resident at Coepang informed me. It is a strange 

 place for them to take up their abode in ; perhaps 

 they do not like the idea of living under a Rajah. 

 They are, I believe, beautiful workmen ; but with 

 them all is not gold that glitters. There are plenty 

 of cocoa-nuts in the island, but little water ; the 

 landing at all times is bad. 



When at Coepang we saw some specimens of the 

 gold, collected after heavy rains from the washings 

 of the hills, and brought down for barter to the 

 merchants in grains inclosed in small lengths of 

 bamboo, containing each from six to eighteen drams. 

 Thirty miles south-west of Diely, also, are some 

 mines of virgin copper. 



