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the next day to visit them, said he had dreamed of their approach- 

 ing visit, had consulted the moon in reference to this dream, 

 and was now delighted to see it confirmed. He added that he 

 was happy in the friendship of the King of Spain, and was 

 proud to be his vassal. This potentate, whose name was Rajah 

 Soultan Manzour, was a Mohammedan: he was "an eminent 

 astrologer," and had numerous wives and twenty-six children. 



TIDORE, 



On the 12th, a shed was erected in the town of Tidore by 

 the Spaniards, whither they carried all the merchandise they 

 intended to barter for cloves. A tariff of exchange was then 

 drawn up. Ten yards of red cloth were to be worth four 

 hundred pounds of cloves, as were also fifteen yards of inferior 

 cloth, fifteen axes, thirty-five glass tumblers, twenty-six yards 

 of linen, one hundred and fifty pairs of scissors, three gongs, or 

 a hundredweight of copper. As the stock of articles brought 

 by the strangers diminished, however, their value naturally rose, 

 and a yard of ribbon would buy a quintal of cloves: in fact. 



