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at the stern wmdows to his Daked, but apparently faith- 
fulj subjects. 
"On his departure, be left five of hia people with us 
to point out the mouth of the riverj and promised to 
return in the afternoon with refreshments. He left us 
with bis hands full of presents, which he had received 
rigbt and left, and all his people followed, with the excep- 
tion of the five pilots above-mentioned. The latter were 
also well supplied with presents, and we were enabled to 
bold full communication with them by means of the 
native interpreter. The efifect of fire-arms was not alto- 
gether unknown to them, for wlien we informed them 
that we were going to fire, but that they must not be 
afraid, they willingly consented, and showed by signs 
that when the Ceramese fired from their prabus^ they 
were in the habit of diving under water. However, a 
blank cartridge, fired from a musket, startled them a 
little, but tbey afterwards burst out into a shout of 
laughter.''* 
The natives were also astonished by a display of 
European skdl in breaking bottles suspended under the 
yard-arm w4th musket -shots, by the ticking of a watch, 
and other modes in which Europeans delight in showing 
their superiority over their savage friends; but Mr. 
Modera rather naively expresses his own surprise at the 
imperturbable coolness of Abrauw and two minor chiefs 
who came on board in the afternoon, and who seem to 
have rivalled more civilisipd aristocrats in their determina- 
tion not to be astoni&bed at anything that they saw or 
beard. 
♦ "Reiae,'^ &e., p. 63. 
