108 A JOURNEY IN JOHORE. 



tan; by these means 1 found the way of 

 communicating witli His Majesty free from 

 obstacle. 1 was received by him with re- 

 markable famiiiarity and kindness, and 

 a few^ days after tlie requested document, 

 duly authenticated with tlie Sultans seal, 

 was debvered to me. 



1 likewise asked the same from His High- 

 ness the Tumungong of Singapore. I was 

 neither received by him so familiarly nor 

 so kindly; he gave me liow^ver the permis- 

 sion requested; but he gave it by word 

 only, saying that tlie document already 

 given by the Sultan was sufficient, and 

 assuring me that the authority of the Sultan 

 and his own were unum et idem, 



1 left Singapore on the fifth of Septem- 

 ber; I was accompanied by an Indo- Por- 

 tuguese boy as servant and by a Chinese 

 as cooly; tiie boat which conveyed me was 

 of a small size, having two Malabar men 

 as rowers, in case the wind should fail. 



