SOdlEtY AT Sf2<f®A^dftE. 



edifices in bis enclosure, previous to departing, 

 ypQ found tlie creature ^mtise^d lilmself with 

 WMiiJg:* Besides tihe sew resitlencc and iirall> 

 lie'??as ere^Bng a residence and wall for him- 

 self, neat and extcnsivo in con-tructinn, and in 

 something of a Clitnese style ot" architecture. 

 This biiildiug was certainly wanting, for the old 

 thatched pakee n^ar il si&eBied ready ta fall 

 about his ears. 



Society at Sinirapore is extremal v aa-reeable 

 to a visitor — for only as one can I judge of it. 

 Whether in intercourse among themselves they 

 divided into the mechsmcsl and ajcts^cra^^ 

 tical party, I cannot say, having only heard a 

 wliisper to that eltect. I have found, during 

 two visits to the little settlenn'Ut, iinl kiuikIc^I 

 hospitality^, and e^ ery attention to niy sriuntiiic 



inqfum^* irfecumft ^ome takittf mwe liitsspest in 

 my researches than otliers. 



At daylight one tnorning I set off, accompanied 

 by the r?('v, Mr. Darrah, in a lar^ii^ sailing- 

 boat, belonging to my friend Mr. Bou^teail, on 



Sijang td* th0 l^]ta.jm> It^w Mai^otir, ^c. ; we 



had but little xnnd, but contrived, w irii a nu- 

 merous Malay crew, to pull out s<t<ui to tlu' Hrst 

 island, and landed on a fine sandy beach. The 

 only inhahirtaxit wm m old Malay, whose amall 

 thatched habitation was surrounded hy cofOa- 



