here or at Laboaan Kl^amboe on my retumt I woiiM like to stop now 

 hut am afraid that if I wait, th# eomth tmimmm will eat in & I sh^ai 

 muoh trouble in returniii^ from the ielaiids# 



i;^^ April 5, 

 ^Blimd^ to ^ 



^ awatoaiied lo^^ before dciybrask and said tiia wind mm fa** 

 irorabie; I heliiod raise the Bfdl and than wont back "bo sleep aiid 



I awoke wa wera drif tiug aXoiig about two milea off ahore but hat 

 ooHie a good wa^a from %liimix; after tiiiB we got a northwest 



Weest that took m in the direction ^ Piilo Balik Koekoip but early 

 in the afternoon eiiiftori to northeast and we could Imj a QOWtBB to 

 Samoentai t arriTlng hare shortly after iarlc* 



ihea we wera laesiif: tha island of tfeiaimbora thia aftornooiit I 

 as>ad fambie if the ooooriiits on the ielmd wert good mni. the trees 

 fruit f ml* He told me the trees ^re fruitful #not^;h but the Ea,ti¥0g 

 wore afraid to c^ltiTata them ae the ialaM #aa used as a burying 

 groiirid bj all the aatiTee in ti^ nalgliborhood aM had been for a great 

 aumber of ^are^ ao that at the praatnt tiro, when %}mj take a bodj 

 thore to bo biaxiad^ they usuallj^ umov^r two or three efcoletonc whila 

 digging a gra¥o# 11© seemed quite posit iT0 that these dead rmn 

 walked about at night, for hie friends haci seen them^ and Idiat they 

 waro capable of attsckii^g people T#ith a la:* is a & mndow. fambie^s . 

 mind ie trembled o%^er tht subject as hB eaye he does not quite under- 

 ©tand how his aaoestors comld be both here sM at iCooca* fha Hajies 

 or Mohaitimadcms that haTe baon to Mecca iB,¥0 told hini that hia mothor 

 and father were there; thej were not ^irieible to the eye but their 

 ¥Oio©B could be haardt TmihiB thtrefore \faiite to go to Mecca to 

 hear the iroice of hie dead mother & father whioh ha half doubts ht 



