382 FOYAGE FROM WAIGIOU [chap, xxxvii. 



showers succeeded each other during the morning. At 

 noon there was a dead calm, after which a light westerly 

 breeze enabled us to reach a village on Makian in the 

 evening. Here I bought some pumelos (Citrus decumana), 

 kanary-nuts, and coffee, and let my men have a night's 

 sleep. 



The morning of the 3d was fine, and we rowed 

 slowly along the coast of Makian. The captain of a 

 small prau at anchor, seeing me on deck and guessing 

 who I was, made signals for us to stop, and brought 

 me a letter from Charles Allen, who informed me he 

 had been at Ternate twenty days, and was anxiously 

 waiting my arrival. This was good news, as I was 

 equally anxious about him, and it cheered up my 

 spirits. A light southerly wind now sprung up, and we 

 thought Ave were going to have fine weather. It soon 

 changed, however, to its old quarter, the west ; dense 

 clouds gathered over the sky, and iu less than half an 

 hour we had the severest squall we had experienced 

 during our whole voyage. Luckily we got our great main- 

 sail • down in time, or the consequences might have been 

 serious. It was a regular little hurricane, and my old 

 Bugis steersman began shouting out to " Allah ! il Allah ! " 

 to preserve us. We could only keep up our jib, which 

 was almost blown to rags, but by careful handling it kept 

 us before the wind, and the prau behaved very well. Our 



