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CERAM, 



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This sago forms almost tlie whole subabtfiice of the inlin- 

 bitatits, M-lio appear to cultivate notliing bvU a few snirtll 

 patclies of maize and sweet potatoes. Hence, as before 

 explained, tlie scarcity of insects. The Oraxig-kaya has 

 fine clothes, handsome lamps, and other expensive 

 P'uropean floods, yet lives eveiy day on sago and fish as 

 miserably as the rest. 



After tliree days in tliis barren place 1 left on the morn- 

 ing of March Gth, in two boats of the same size as tho&e 

 which had brought me to Tehiti, With some difficnlty 

 1 had ol}tained permission to take these boats on to Tobo, 

 where I intended to stay a while, and therefore got on 

 pretty quickly, changing men at the vdhige of Laiemu, 

 and arriving in a hea%7 rain at Ahtiago. As there was a 

 good deal of surf here, and likely to be more if the wind 

 blew hard during the night, onr boats were pidled np on 

 the beach ; and after supping at the Orang-kaya's house, and 

 writing down a vocabulary of the langnage of the Alfnros, 

 who live in the mountains inland, I returned to sleep in 

 the boat. Next morning we proceeded, changing men at 

 Warenama, and again at Hatometen, at both of whicli 

 places there was much surf and no harbour, so that the 

 men had to go on shore and cume on board by swimming. 

 Arriving in the evening of March Ttli at Batuassa, the first 

 vUlage belonging to the liajah of Tobo, and under the 

 government of Band a, the surf was very heavy, owing to a 

 strong westward swell We therefore roimded the rocky 

 point on which the village was situated, but found it very 

 little better on the other side. We were obliged, however, 

 to go on shore here ; and waiting till the people on the 

 beaoli had made preparations, Iw placing a row of logs froiu 

 the water's edge on wliicli to pull up our boats, we rowed 

 as fjuickly as we could straight on to them, after w^afcchin*,' 

 till the hea%'iest surfs had passed. The moment %ve touched 

 ground our men all jumped out> and, assisted by those on 

 shore, attempted to lianl np the bttat high and dry, but not 

 having sulBcient hands, the suif repeatedly broke into the 

 stern. The steepness of the beach, however, prevented any 

 damage being done, and the other boat having both crews 

 to haul at it, was got np without ditheulty. 



The next morning, the water being low, the breakers 



