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by a European who considered my boat unsafe to cross in. I had a look at 

 the schooner and found it to be strongly built and in pretty good condition, 

 54 feet long and 12 feet beam, drawing about 4 feet of water. It is made 

 entirely of iron-wood. 



After considering, I decided the best plan would be to buy the schooner, and 

 as the owner was willing to sell, we came to terms. He bought my boat for 

 three hundred and fifty guilders and I was to buy the schooner for thirteen 

 hundred and fifty guilders, but found that I could not own and sail a boat 

 under the Dutch flag unless I had been holder of citizen's papers for a full 



Fig. 21. — Beraoe Malays at Maratua Island, southeast Borneo. 

 Photograph by Raven. 



year. According to the Dutch law, coasting under a foreign flag is prohibited. 

 Thus my only way was to make a contract of " Bond Loan," stating that I had 

 loaned thirteen hundred and fifty guilders to Hadji Mohamad Arsad and as 

 security he gives into my absolute custody his schooner, which he may redeem 

 only during the thirteenth month after date by paying the sum of thirteen 

 hundred and fifty guilders and must accept the schooner in any condition in 

 which she may be at that time. He can never claim damages, inasmuch as the 

 loan equals the value of the schooner; also that if Hadji Mohamad Arsad 

 breaks the contract and takes back the schooner before the end of the twelve 

 months after date (July 4, 1914), he must pay not only the sum of the loan 



