m m ACCOUNT of the wild tribes. 



rally Europeans sliow in their con versa lion 

 a security and frankness, which, by its 

 great contrast with the deceitfuliiess of the 

 Malays, catches at once the hearts of this 

 people of children. They love the European 

 and attach themselves to him as soon as 

 they know iiim, and the slightest good ol- 

 fice received from him is the source of the 

 most unbounded gratitude; though this 

 fact was related to me by several persons , 

 I scarcely believed it» until I was myself 

 witness of it. 



