TTot g'l Up tu the isumtiiiL Tlie longeat 

 trav^t'I iuidt;it;ikeD, Up to the presetit 

 day, ill tiic {i^oirisut^i,, hai« been efTcu- 

 ted iDtietly ^>y Catholic jMiasiaimrles^ 

 ]» 1846 tti'e Revcl. Fiither Favre vUi- 

 teil, tni the Westerti Coast, all the 

 cuuTiii y between Hinpaporo and Mn- 

 lacMia. Irt 1B47 1 joined hiui and we 

 went as far as Muufifc Ophir and Se- 

 g^ainat. In Au>>:iist and iscpteniber of 

 tlie same year, we went ttirdu^h tlje 

 diwt'ict of Juhole^ Riiitj bow» Soon^jcy 

 Oo<1ji>ii£[ and Jtflfibou- in 1849, foS- 

 lowed by mo Chinese and two Man- 

 ira* only, 1 w^nt as far as ihe midst of 

 the peninsula. I viiited the Batiii, 

 the ^reat chififof the wild tribes^ who 

 resides In rhc plain of Ouloo, in tlio 

 di^itrjot «f JooiU|joU Ofi tny vvaj up 

 1 pa^Hed over the J^luuiitatris of Johoie, 

 ninnr^ ritid Jt oiiipul. On my return, 

 tahing^, a clrctiiiuu^i rmite aruuiid theuA 

 fuounuins, I viisited Setimenanit^ 

 Tracbee and Rumbntv, 



Tiiough extremely favored hy im- 

 turr, the penirisufa has few iuhabi- 

 tantiih, and connrquently is lUtle cuU 

 tivated ; you find here and there in 

 tlift vsllets a fewpsidiiy fields, border- 

 ed bv Cocoanut mid Beteiilut trees 

 and some other fruit trees, over.-had- 

 ing some liumlde hut$. The only 

 lijc all ties "Ihe chief ;j of the i>;everai 

 districts reside in, eumpOBe vlllagee of 

 ff 50 to 100 huts: these vtllagei 



