CH. VII TO SANGIB AND TALAVT 159 



On Thursday, the 29th, we left our anchorage at Lirung 

 and steamed towards the Nanusa Archipelago. On our way 

 we brought to off the village Pulutan, and sent a boat ashore 

 to fetch the rajah. He came on board, accompanied by three 

 or four of his principal officers, and conversed for some time 

 with the Eesident of Manado through an interpreter. 



The rajah spoke in Talautese, and his remarks were 

 translated into Malay by the ' capitain laut ' of Lirung, whom 

 the Eesident had brought with him to act as interpreter. 



The languages spoken in the Talaut islands are, accord- 

 ing to the best authorities, closely allied to the language 

 spoken in Great Sangir. 



The Eajah of Pulutan and his people were miserable- 

 looking, half-starved individuals, and were all bent half 

 double with awe or fright as they approached the Eesident. 

 They seemed to be more comfortable when they were 

 squatting in a row on the deck, and supporting one another 

 shoulder to shoulder, like a group of monkeys. The rajah's 

 hair was long, black, and rather crimped, and his head was 

 covered with a dirty cloth fashioned like a turban, which 

 he removed when he came on board. He was clothed in a 

 loose-hanging garment of native manufacture, and judging 

 from his appearance must have had very little contact, at 

 any time, with Europeans or European manufactures. 



Steaming along the coast of Karkelang all that after- 

 noon we crossed to the Nanusa islands before sunset, and 

 came to anchor in twelve fathoms at six o'clock off the little 

 village of Karaton. 



It was too dark for me to go ashore that evening, but I 

 had an interesting anthropological study in a group of 

 natives who came aboard in a large canoe, loaded up 

 to the water-line. Some fifteen or sixteen of them came 

 on to the deck, and immediately squatted down on their 

 heels, while the others swarmed up the hatchway, and 



