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rOYAOE FROM WAWIOU [chap, xrxvn. 



the boat, and told me I ought to have had a certain 

 ceremony gone throiij^di before starting, condistiug of 

 boring a liole in the bottom and ponrin^ some kind of holy 

 oil tlirfingh it It must Ije reinembored that tliis was the 

 season of the sonth-ea.'st monsoon, antl yet we had not had 

 even Inilf a day's south-east wind since we left Waigion. 

 Contrar)^ winds, sqnalls, and cnrrents drifted us about tlie 

 rest of the day at their pleasure. The night was equally 

 squally and changeable, and kept us hard at work taking 

 in and making sad, and rowing in the intervals. 



Sunrise on the 2d found us in the middle of the ten- 

 mile channel between Kai6a and Makian. Squalls and 

 showers succeeded each other during the morning. At 

 noon there was a dead calm, after which a light westerly 

 breeze enabled ua to reach a %illage on Makiari in the 

 evening. Here T bought some pumeloa (Citms decumana), 

 kanary-nuts, and coifee, and let my men have a night's 

 sleep. 



The morning of the 3d was fine, and we rowed 

 slowly along the coast of Makian, The captain of a 

 small prau at anchor, seeing me on deck and guessing 

 who 1 was, made signals for us to stop, and brought 

 me a letter from Charles Allen, who informed me he 

 had been at Ternate twenty days, and was anxiously 

 waiting my arrival. This was good news, as I was 

 equally anxious about him, and it cheered up my 

 spirits. A light southerly wind now spning up, and we 

 thought we were going to have fine weather. It soon 

 changed, however, to its old quarter, the west; dense 

 clouds gathered over the sky, and in less than half an 

 hour we had the severest squall we had experienced 

 during our whole voyage. Luckily we got our great main- 

 sail down in time, or the consequences might have bcpti 

 serious. It was a rcgidar little hurricane, and my old 

 Bugis steersman began shouting out to " Allah [ il Allah 1 " 

 to presei-ve us. We could only keep up our Jib, which 

 was almost blown to rags, but by careful handling it kept 

 us before the wind, and the pran beliaved very well. Our 

 small boat (purchased at Gani) was towing astern, and 

 soon got full of water, so that it broke away and we 

 saw no more of it lu about an hour the fury oi iha 



