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to be no head man among them. Each brought one 

 or two fowls or a bunch of cocoa-nuts, for which he 

 wanted a piece of money, and as they bad no change, 

 and did not seem inclined to combine their stock 

 and share the proceeds, we found it rather a 

 dear market. Had we brought a few red handker- 

 chiefs ashore, or similar articles, they would have 

 been more valued than all our dollars. As a light 

 breeze sprang up soon after we landed, we did not 

 remain long, but went off and got under weigh. 



October IS. — The light breeze had gradually 

 floated us up off a place on the Java shore, called 

 Jati in the chart, and at daylight we found ourselves 

 surrounded by a multitude of fishing-boats and 

 prahus in all directions. The shore was flat near 

 the sea, and so thickly vegetated with groves of 

 cocoa-nuts and other trees, that we could see no 

 habitations, except a row of bamboo huts here and 

 there, built on piles, and projecting over the water. 

 About eight o'clock we perceived through the haze 

 two ships at anchor, and steered down for them. 

 They were off a place called Passarouan, where 

 pilots are taken on board for the strait of Madura, 

 or Keribi, as they wore formerly called. We sent a 

 boat on board one of the vessels, when a Dutchman, 

 who spoke English, informed us there was no pilot 

 there then, but we should find one on board one of 

 two vessels that we now saw coming down out of the 

 strait toward us. We could see over the trees the 

 reel tiled roof of some building, with a flagstaff and 



