250 TRAVELS m THE EAST INBIAN AECITIPELAGO. 



Bugie, but for the last forty or fifty years the Biigis 

 have gone from Maeaasar directly to those islands 

 and traded with the people at their ovm villages. 

 In 1854, Amboina, Banda, Ternate, and KaytSlij were 

 made free ports, but this has not materially increased 

 the trade at any of those places. 



The period when the trade at Amboina was most 

 flourishing was when it was last held by the Eng- 

 lish, from 1814 to 1816. The port was then free, but, 

 when it once more passed into the hands of the 

 Dutch, duties were again demanded, which forced 

 the trade into other channels, where it still remains, 

 notwithstauding there ai*e now no duties. The proper 

 remedy has been applied, but applied too late. This 

 is also the history of the trade at Batavia, where the 

 heavy duties have induced the traders of the eastern 

 part of the archipelago to sail directly to the free 

 port of Singapore. 



I had been at Amboina a long time before I could 

 ascertain where the grave of Eumphius is located, 

 and even then I found it only by chauce^ — so rarely 

 is this great man spoken of at the present time. 

 From the common, back of the fort, a beautifully- 

 shaded street leads up to the east ; and the stranger, 

 while walking in this quiet retreat, has his attention 

 drawn to a small, square pillar in a gai'den. A thick 

 group of coffee-trees almost embrace it in theii' droop- 

 ing branches, as if tiying to protect it from wind 

 and rain and the consuming hand of Time. Under 

 that plain monument rest the mortal remains of the 

 great naturalist. 



The inscription, which explains itself, and shows 



