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came forth, with tlit; usual foTiiiTiine curiosity, to 

 view the >traiif>'pr.< : iiniord, \v<' appeared t(t Ireaf* 

 iiiucli objects of curiosity among tlicia, as 1 had 

 before been when landing upon maiiy of fee iui- 

 Ic^uenled isHanils of the Polynesiaii AYdiii>e- 

 lagf) ; and tlic natives, that arrived in the boats 

 witli Areka-iiiit, tVoiii tlte vilhi^'es on the enast, 

 seemed to regard us as wonders, and surrounded 

 the entsai^e of &e yo^j^^etiMy-ii^t meal^timea, 

 as if to satisfy iiheids^v^ Iio^ such^imals fied. 



"We had an offer of some of the rajah's horses 

 to ride about the \'illa(i'e : at first it was thouHit 

 that some dun cows, with horns cut oli' close to 

 the head, and a preternatural erection of fhe 

 m$^f wer^ ih& wSmsl^ offered ^ but it appears 

 lihey were real ponie>; : if we had ridden them, 

 Jiowever, it must have heeii witliout any saddh^ 

 or bridh;, for tliere were no articles of that de- 

 scription to be procured at Pedir. 



The barqtue at pifeseat at %mhm ia P^dir 

 roads, under the Acheeneae flag, wa^ isRptoed 

 from the rajah ofTrumong, on the west coast of 

 Siimalra, hy the nian-of-war grab belonging to 

 tlie riijali of Aeheen : the cause of it was this : — 

 tlie Trumong rajah is ttibutary to tfce Mng^ Or 



rajahs nSA^htf^i : he bad nnt iiald trlbiilr for 

 three years; and on its being (b'niaiided. fbe 

 Trumong rajah returned for answer, that he iu- 



