CHAPTER XV. 



COUPANG, TIMOR — ASPECT OF COUNTRY, AND OF THE TOWN — 

 MONEY TRANSACTIONS — REFRESHMENTS — THE CHURCH, 

 SCHOOL, AND SCHOOLMASTER —CHINESE — MALAY RAJAHS 

 — APPEARANCE OF THE PEOPLE — PIRATES — ABORIGINES 

 — CHURCH SERVICE IN MALAY — EXCURSION UP THE VAL- 

 LEY — VIEW OF THE INTERIOR— GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE 

 RAISED CORAL REEF. 



September 2, 1843. — We found ourselves this 

 morning at anchor within about half a mile of the 

 town of Coupang, in the island of Timor, which 

 appeared more considerable than I had expected. 

 The bay runs some ten or fifteen miles further to 

 the N.E., in which direction lofty mountains shewed 

 themselves at a great distance in the interior of the 

 island ; many of them having sharp peaks and 

 jagged serrated outlines, with' lower ranges between 

 them and the sea of a smoother and more level form, 

 but preserving a height of several hundred feet, 

 pretty close down to the coast. At the back of the 

 town of Coupang successive ridges of land gradually 

 rose to the height of about 500 feet. They were 

 partially covered with wood, while in the low lands, 

 behind the beach, were large groves of cocoa-nut 



