92 CERAM. [chap. XXV. 



less for me to stay, and begged tlie Eajali to give me a praii 

 and men to caiTy me on to Goram. But instead of getting 

 one close at hand, lie insisted on sending several miles off' : 

 and when after many delays it at length arrived, it was 

 altogether unsuitable and too small to carry my baggage. 

 Another was then ordered to be brought immediately, and 

 was j)i'omised in three days, but double that time elapsed 

 and none appeared, and we were obliged at length to get 

 one at the adjoining village, where it might have been so 

 much more easily obtained at first. Then came caulking 

 and covering over, and quarrels between the owner and the 

 Eajah's men, which occupied more than another ten days, 

 during all which time I was getting absolutely nothing, 

 finding this part of Ceram a perfect desert in zoology, 

 although a most beautiful country, and with a very luxu- 

 riant vegetation. It was a complete puzzle, which to this 

 day I have not been able to understand ; the only thing I 

 obtained worth notice during my month's stay here being a 

 few good land shells. 



At length, on April 4th, we succeeded in getting away 

 in our little boat of about four tons burthen, in which 

 my numerous boxes were with difQculty packed so as to 

 leave sleeping and cooking room. The craft could not 

 boast an ounce of iron or a foot of rope in any part of its 

 construction, nor a morsel of pitch or paint in its decora- 

 tion. The planks were fastened together in the usual 



