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most extravagant prices^ that I fear the chief effect 

 of this change will be to diminish even the little 

 travel and trade there axe now, nnless the present 

 system shall be continued till large nxmibers of lioraes 

 are introduced. 



This proposed taxation will certainly be very 

 light, for each man can earn the five guildera required 

 of hioi by carrying coal or freight for a week at the 

 city of Amboina, 



The great obstacle to every refonn among these 

 natives is, that only a very few of them, if they have 

 enough for one day, will earn any thing for the mor- 

 row. Carps dimi" is a motto more absolutely ob- 

 served here than in luxurious Eome, The desire of 

 all Eui'opeans to have something reserved for sick- 

 ness or old age is a feeling which these people appear 

 to never experience, and such innate improvidence is, 

 unfortunately, encouraged from their earliest child- 

 hood by the unfailing and unsparing manner in which 

 Nature supplies their limited wants. The possi- 

 bility of a famine is something they cannot compre- 

 hend. 



In 1854, 120,288 Amsterdam pounds of cloves 

 were raised on this island from 13,042 trees, each 

 tree yielding the great quantity of nine pounds. In 

 the same year, on Saparua, from 29,732 fi-uit-trees, 

 181,137 Amsterdam pounds were gathered, one-third 

 of the whole crop (510,913 pounds) obtained that 

 year in Amboina, Hamku, Saparua, and Kusalaut 

 On Haruku 38,803 pounds were gathered that yeai-. 

 These three islands, Haiuku, Saparua, and Kusalaut, 

 with the neighboring south coast of Ceram, fonn one 



