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and even cannibals. Barbosa * makes a similar state- 

 ment in regard to all the natives of this island in Ms 

 time. He says, when they came to the Moluccas to 

 trade, they were accustomed to ask the king of those 

 islands to kindly deliver up to them the persons he 

 had condemned to death, that they might gratify 

 their palates on the bodies of such unfortunates, " as 

 if asking for a hog." 



As we steamed up the coast to Macassai-, the 

 mountains in the interior came grandly into view. 

 They appeal^ much more couuected into chains than in 

 Java. One of them, LGmpo-batung, rises to a height 

 of eight thousand two hundred feet above the sea, and 

 is probably the loftiest peak on the whole island. 



The harbor of Macassar is formed by a long, 

 curving coral reef, with its convex side ft'om the 

 shore. At a few places this reef rises above the snr- 

 face of the water and forms low islands ; but, in the 

 heavy gales of the western monsoon, the sea fre- 

 quently breaks over it into the road with such vio- 

 lence as to di'ive most of the native praus on shore. 

 Near it were fleets of fishing-boats, and this was the 

 first place in these tropical seas where I found a fish 

 that, according to my taste, was as nice as those which 

 come from the cold waters that bathe our Kew-Eng- 

 land shores. 



* Ofloardo Barbosa (in Spanisli, Balbosft) was a gentl&maa of Lisbon, 

 who travt^Iled id thoEa^t dtirin^Jiis youth. From hh writmg;s it appeara 

 probaTilo that he visited Malacca before it was conquered by the Portu- 

 gnese in J511. His? work appeared in ISlfi. In 1510 he joined Magel- 

 lan, and was treaeheronsly munlered l>y tho natives of Zebu, one of the 

 Philippines, in 1521, four days after the great navigator, whom he ac- 

 eompaniedj had snftered a like fate, 



