174 Pearls. 



has, however, not escaped so well. She lost 19 out of 

 72 Solorese during the same season, and the men assert 

 that she has a ghost on board, in the form of an old 

 sailor, with a white beard and a long knife,. This 

 ghost was supposed to live in the hold in the day 

 and go up aloft at night ; and so great was the 

 fear produced, that men would only enter the hold 

 during the day in company with seven or eight 

 others, all joining hands. On suddenly waking at 

 night, the men would declare they saw the ghost 

 touching them with his knife ; and screaming with 

 terror they would fall ill and die in a few hours. 

 The survivors were all in Koepang when the 

 " Sree Pas-Sair " returned ; they had refused to 

 put a foot on board the haunted ship again, even 

 for the few hours' run across to their own homes, 

 and the '' Sree Pas-Sair " therefore gave them all 

 a passage, eventually arriving in vSingapore on the 

 20th June, and dropping anchor for the 152nd time 

 since she left in the previous September. 



On the 1st of August, we again find the vessel 

 fitted out for a two years' voyage, and leaving 

 in charge of Mr. Haynes, bound for the Sooloo 

 Archipelago. 



On the way up a dangerous shoal, with only 

 3^ fathoms of water, was found, in the Koti Pas- 

 sage of the Natuna group. This shoal has been 



