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through his booliB and fouad that the box had he en here a long 

 time. fhey claiined the address to he Illegible. 



May 20 to Julj 5, 1914. 

 Saiiarinda. 



After haying shipped my specia^ns I had the 'Bintang Kumala" 

 pulled out on Gray ' s slip and dried her out for about ton days and 

 then began to rejair her. On account of having been so long in 

 the 7?ater, worms had g-otten into her bottom and to d&etroy then? it 

 was neoossary to keep a smouldering fire tinder her for two days. 



Pack all my otitfit into boxes and put the entire under OlHByer» 

 house in which I am staying* 



After beirsg: unable to get a crew of J^oloke or BaJarB from 

 Beraoe I hunted about hare anti finally fouM a -^uj-gis who clairad 

 he had long been captain of a ashooner and could sail tl3© iiuntang 

 Kumala to Donggala so I arranged with hirn to get tw men to rig 

 the prahn and sail her to i)onggala» There was no way to find out 

 for sure that these three men were sailor 8 except to judge so be- 

 cause they knew how to ri|? the boats so I was ao roe what die appointed 

 when on July E5th, I tried out the boat in the ri¥©r and had much 

 trouble ; however, the following dJ3^ we imde a start. There ms a 

 good breeze on the river and before we had gotten two miles do-#n 

 the river it was clear to see that I had no sailors; they finally 

 ran the boat a-:aiore. I returned to %EBrinda, could get no na- 

 tives #10 could sail so finally traded in the "Bintang lumala" and 

 took over the schooner "Alnoer" from a Bugis and will go ^th him 

 to I»onggala and there hunt for a crew to sail the "Alnoer." 



