GORAM. 



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take tlieir producta to any other tuarket In otlier respects 

 they are a lazy race, living very poorly, and much ^iven to 

 opium smoking. The only native manufactures are sail- 

 matting, coarse cotton cloth, and pandanus-leaf boxes, 

 prettily staiued and ornamented witli shelL-work. 



In the island of Goram, only eight or ten miles long, 

 there are about a doxen Kajahs, scarcely better otf 

 than the rest of the inliabitauts, and exercising a mere 

 uominal sway, except when any order is received from 

 the Dutch Government, when, being backed by a 

 higher power, they show a little more strict authority. 

 My friend the Eajah of Ammer (commouly called liajali 

 of Goram) told me that a few years ago, before the 

 Dutch had interfered in the afHiirs of the island, the 

 trade was not carried on so peaceably as at present, 

 rival praus often figliting when on the way to the same 

 locality, or tmffickiug in the same village. Now such a 

 thing is never thought of— one of the good effects of 

 the superintendence of a civilized government Disputes 

 between villages are still, liowever, sometimes settled by 

 fighting, and I one day saw about fifty men, carrying long 

 guns and hca\7 cartridge -belts, march through the village. 

 They had come from the other side of the island on some 

 question of trespass or boimdary, and were prepared for 

 war if peaceable negotiations should fail. 



While at Manowolko I had piu-chaaed for 100 florms 

 (9^,) a small prau, which was brought over the next day, 

 as I vras iuibrmed it Wiis more easy to have the necessary 

 altemtions made in Goram, where several Kd workmen 

 were settled. 



As soon as we began getting my prau ready I was 



obhged to give up collecting, as 1 found that unless I was 

 constantly on the sjxit myself very little work would be 

 done. As I proposed making some long voyages in this 

 boat, T determined to lit it up conveniently, and wiis 

 obliged to do all the inside work myself, assisted by my 

 two Amhoynese boys. X had plenty of ^^sitors, surprised 

 to see a wldte man at work, and much astonished at the 

 novel anangenicnts I was making in one of their native 

 vessels. Luckily I had a few tools of my own, including a 

 small saw and some cliisela, and these were now severely 



