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placed a saucer containing a small coin, as a hint 

 that we should contribute something towards the 

 restoration of the church, which was not thrown 

 away, and most probably led to the largest donation 

 the church had received for some time. After 

 inspecting the church and village, we walked for 

 some distance along the beach, and saw a great 

 many parrots, paroquets, and large wood-pigeons, of 

 varied and beautiful plumage, flying amongst the 

 splendid kanari* trees, which, from all accounts, 

 afford most valuable timber for ship-building. 



June 23. — Mr. Earl and myself visited the village 

 of Dobbo. We found it very little changed since 

 our last visit. The trading vessels had all sailed, 

 but the village was occupied by a few Dutch traders 

 from Macassar, some dozen Chinese, and about 

 300 Bughis and Macassars; the greater portion of 

 whom were preparing to visit the eastern side of the 

 group to collect the produce for the vessels expected 

 to arrive at the setting in of the westerly monsoon. 



The only sea-going vessels in the harbour were 

 two large Macassar proas and a Ceramese junk ; 

 which were to sail in a few days. 



Whilst I was employed, making astronomical 

 observations to determine the position of the point, 

 Mr. Earl obtained considerable information from 

 the traders. 



The commerce of these islands appears to have 



* Cannarium commune. 



