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VlVliitUA ilL'S^UNGA, 



a variety of, if not actually the disease called, 



leprosy.* 



1 jnet several iitUives going into tliu interior ; 

 tliey were all well armed witk krisses, klawangs 

 ot Malay swofdBi $|ieay% md MmideAusses or 



musqitcts ; the tjOimtry in tlie interior hviw^ de- 

 scribed as in a very unsettled state. Some of tlie 

 spears were abont six feet long, rcsemljlinu' \\ alk- 

 iug-staves, covered above by a wooden slieath, 



3simM wit% iftoi 0f silver ; tte upper m 

 slieatfi, being taken oflP, displays the head of the 

 spear. 



I purchased a specimen of the I ivcrra mus(in{^aj 

 ^aiilar to one I Itad k&ire pi^tired »t fea, Iohp 

 Imlf ia rupee ; ^ttn^ngli i^ery wild yn^ stranfers, 



it was exceedingly domesticated >vith its niaster, 

 following bini like a cat, as be walked ahnig the 

 path : tkey called liiui, on this coast, as at Java, 

 *'Mussang." 

 This specfaeti w^ks very little larger than one 



* It is mentioned in Lftbiliurdiens VoyuQe^ (Et'S* Tnins). 

 8vo, vol. i. p. 3o8,) tiiat at Amboyna " I saw% on my return, 

 #)itle A Fapaan man by birth ; lie had ItgHt li&ir, his 



skin u'lis white, anil unnkcd n itli letUh^h (Vcckles, like tlio^c 

 oi'thu Europeans who have icU hair; hut hu was not vveak- 



sightjg^i, M is g«iEtcn41y Uie case wltli <ithcf Albittos. 



