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were tlesirotis to see us, many of them 

 having never before seen any European; 

 for five or six hours, our house was fuil of 

 people, and ourselves were exposed to the 

 curiosity of the public, as extraordinary 

 beings, and botliered by a multitude of te- 

 dious questions. The Jakuns came according 

 to their rank, and should, of course, all en- 

 ter our house one after the other; several 

 of them came repeatedly, and we under- 

 stood that tliey wished to communicate 

 some secret to us; and in this wc were not 

 mistaken, for they came again in tlie even* 

 iug, when they had watched tliat there 

 were no Malays witli us, and that we were 

 alone. Then they opened themselves to us, 

 showing us how unhappy they were in that 

 place, and what bad treatment they expe- 

 rienced from the Malays, so that only a few 

 days before several of them had been killed 

 or wounded by order of the Malay chief; 

 they declared that they intended to escape 



