CHAP. XXX1V.J 



f^OYAGE TO mREY. 



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flour, metal spoons, wide-raoxitlied phials, beeswax, a pen- 

 knife, and a stone or rnetal pestle aud mortar. 1 took with 

 me four servants : my head man Ali, and a Teruiitu lad 

 named Jnmaat (Friday), to alioot; Liiha^^ij a steady niidtUe- 

 aged mae, to cut timber and assist nie in insect-collecting ; 

 and Loisa, a Javanese cook As I knew I should have to 

 bndd a house at Dorey, where I was going, 1 took with 

 me eighty cadjans, or wateiproof mats, made of pandanus 

 leaves, to cover over my baggaj^e on tirst landing, and 

 to help to roof my house afterwards. 



We started on the 'AbxXi of March in the schooner 

 Hester Helena, belonging to niy friend Mr. Duivenboden^ 

 and bound on a trading voyage along the north coast of 

 New Guinea. Having calms and light airs, we were 

 three days reaching Gane, near the south end of 

 Gilolo, where we stayetl to fill up our water-casks and 

 buy a few provisions. We obtained fowls, eggs, sago, 

 plantains, sweet potatoes, yellow pumpkins, chdies, fish, 

 and dried deer's meat; and on the afternoon of the 

 20th proceeded on our voy^^e to Dorey harbour. We 

 found it, however, by no means easy to get along ; for eo 

 near to the etjuator the nion-soons entirely fail of their 

 regularity, and after passing the southern point of Gilolo 

 we had calms, light puffs of wind, and contrary currents, 

 wliich kept us for five days in sight of the same islands 

 between it and Poppa. A squall then brought us on to 

 the entrance of Dampier's Straits, where we were again 

 becalmed, and were three more days creeping through 

 them. Several native canoes now came ofl' to us fmra 

 Waigiou on one side, and Batanta on the other, bringiog 

 a few conmion shells, palm-leaf mats, cocoa-nuts, and 

 pumpkins. They were very extravagant in their de- 

 mands, being accustomed to sell their trifles to whalers 

 and Cliina ships, whose crews will purchase anything at 

 ten times its valua My only purchases were a float 

 belonging to a hirtle-spear caiTed to resemble a bird, 

 and a very well made palm-leaf box, for which articles 

 I gave a copper ring and a yard of calico. The canoea 

 were very narrow and tumished with an outrigger, and 

 in some of them there was only one man, who seemed 

 to think nothing of coming out alone eight or ten miles 



