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it. Schooners from Bali come to buy Papuan slaves, while 

 the sea-wandering Bugis arrive from distant Singapore in 

 their lumbering praus, bringing thence the produce of the 

 Chinamen's workshops and Kling's bazaar, as well as of 

 the looms of Lancashire and Massachusetts. 



One of the Bugis traders who had arrived a few days 

 before from Mysol, brought me news of my assistant 

 Charles Allen, with whom he was well acquainted, and who, 

 he assured me, was making large collections of birds and 

 insects, although he had not obtained any birds of Paradise ; 

 Silinta, where he was staying, not being a good place for 

 them. This was on the whole satisfactory, and I was 

 anxious to reach him as soon as possible. 



Leaving Kilwaru early in the morning of June 1st, with 

 a strong east wind we doubled the point of Ceram about 

 noon, the heavy sea causing my prau to roU about a good 

 deal, to the damage of our crockery. As bad weather 

 seemed coming on, we got inside the reefs and anchored 

 opposite the village of Warus-warus to wait for a change. 

 The night was very squally, and though in a good harbour 

 we rolled and jerked uneasily ; but in the morning I had 

 greater cause for uneasiness in the discovery that our 

 entire Goram crew had decamped, taking with them aR 

 they possessed and a little more, and leaving us without 

 any small boat in which to land. I immediately told my 

 Amboyna men to load and fire the muskets as a signal of 



