142 TRAVELS IN THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



merely a common ann-cliair, witti a bamboo fastened 

 on eacli side. A light roof and curttdns on tbe sides 

 keep out the rain or hot sunshine, Uaually eight 

 or more coolies are detailed to each chair, so that one- 

 half may relieve the others every few moments. The 

 motion is much like that on horseback, when the 

 horse is urged into a hurried walk, and is neither 

 extremely unpleasant nor so very delightful as some 

 wiiters who have visited these islands have described 

 it. In China, where only two coolies carry a chair, the 

 motion is tai* more regular and agreeable. This is 

 the only mode of travelling in all the islands where 

 horses have not been introduced, and where all the 

 so-called roads are mere narrow footpaths, except in 

 the villages. 



From the shore we climbed two hills, and on 

 their crests passed through gardens of cocoa-trees.* 

 The road then was bordered on either side with 

 rows of pine-apples, Ananmsa scttiva, a third exotic 

 from tropical America. It thrives so well in every 

 part of the archipelago, mthout the slightest care, 

 that it is very difficult to realise that it is not an 

 indigenous plant. The native names all point out 

 its origin. The Malays and Javanese call it nanaSy 

 which is merely a corruption of the Poitnguese <Mm- 

 mma. In Celebes it is sometimes called pandamg^ a 

 corruption oipmidamis, from the marked similarity 



* This name must not be confonndcd with that of the cocoft-nut- 

 tpee, or Cocot nueifera^ which is a palm. The wnrd cofioa is supposed 

 to have been derived from the Portuguese word maeoeo or maeaeo^ & 

 monkey, and to have been applied to the cocoa-nut palm, from a fancied 

 resemblance between the end of the Bbell, where the three black scarg 

 oeoar, and the face of a monkey. 



