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tlie direction ol' mount Ophir, and thence 

 to Malacca; tracing} from Joliore to the 

 latitude ol' Malacca , through the midst of 

 the Peninsula, a line which had not yel 

 been followed hy any European , and per- 

 liaps by very few, if any, Malays. It will 

 be seen hereaftei' tliat several accidents 

 prevented nie from makinfj the journey as 

 ! first purposed. My design was to visit the 

 several wild tribes which were said to in- 

 habit in great numbers the most interior 

 part of the Peninsula, and to obtain, re- 

 specting them, the most full and exact in^ 

 formation which circumstances would allow 

 rae, I was also ordered by his lordship 

 D"" Bouciro to ascertain if there would 

 be a possibility of establishing a Mission 

 amongst them. 



My small boat, which left Singapore ori 

 the fifth of September at five o'clock a, m. 

 with ii most favourable breeze, was at ten 

 o'clock between Tanjong Changy, the most 



