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quickly exchanged their wages for goods. An 

 English acrobatic company happened to be in 

 Macassar at the time, and all the hands were 

 taken to see the performance, to the intense delight 

 of all, but especially of the younger men. 



Unfortunately the possession of so much money 

 and the excitement of being in a large town proved 

 too much for the mind of one of the divers, Akalal 

 by name, who had hitherto been a slave in his own 

 country, but was now a free man for life, with all 

 a free man's privileges. Impressed with the idea 

 that everybody wanted to rob him of his riches, he 

 became greatly excited; at night he swam off to 

 the ship, clambered up the side, and knocking down 

 the Malay sailor at the cabin door with a belaying 

 pin, he entered the vacant cabin, and there seizing 

 two large krisses, attacked his comrades asleep on 

 deck. Fortunately he was secured before doing much 

 harm, and soon became quieter. 



Two days afterwards, Mr. Haynes left Macassar 

 in charge of the ship, bound to Sooloo and back 

 again, Mr. Chippindall returning to Singapore. The 

 second day Akalal again broke out, and seriously 

 injured an unoffending Macassar sailor. Mr. Haynes 

 then put him in irons for the remainder of the 

 voyage, and he was kept securely tied up in one of 



