CHAP. XXV.] WAHAI. 123 



Dutch station in the island. The journey took us five 

 days, owing to calms and light winds, and no incident of 

 any interest occurred on it, nor did I obtain at our 

 stopping places a single addition to my collections worth 

 naming. At Wahai, which I reached on the 15th of June, 

 I was hospitably received by the Commandant and my old 

 friend Herr Eosenberg, who was now on an official visit 

 here. He lent me some money to pay mj^ men, and I was 

 lucky enough to obtain three others willing to make the 

 voyage with me to Ternate, and one more who was to 

 return from Mysol. One of my Amboyna lads, however, 

 left me, so that I was stiU rather short of hands. 



I found here a letter from Charles Allen, who was at 

 Silinta in Mysol, anxiously expecting me, as he was out of 

 rice and other necessaries, and was short of insect-pins. He 

 was also ill, and if I did not soon come would return to 

 Wahai. 



As my voyage from this place to "VVaigiou was among 

 islands inhabited by the Papuan race, and was an event- 

 ful and disastrous one, I will narrate its chief inci- 

 dents in a separate chapter in that division of my work 

 devoted to the Papuan Islands. I now have to pass over 

 a year spent in Waigiou and Timor, in order to describe 

 my visit to the island of Bouru, which concluded my 

 explorations of the Moluccas. 



