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garrison had been landed. It was abandoned ten yeara 
afterwards (1838), when the garrison waa removed to 
Wahaai, a small port on the north coast of Ceram, Tthich 
was much resorted to by English and American whale- 
ships about that time. The following particulars respect- 
ing the natives in the neighbourhood of the settlement 
at Triton Bay are extracted firom Lieutenant !Mo<lera'a 
narrative : 
The inhabitants of Aiduma, Bramaai, Loho, and the 
neighbouring islands (the tribes around the new settle- 
ment), are of the same complexion with the Outanatas, 
are afflicted with the same cutaneous disease^ and have 
also crisp hair, but they do not plait it like the Outanatas, 
although this practice is adopted by some of the 'Al- 
foeren,^ or mountaineers. Neither do they bore the 
septum of the nose, their omanients consisting of bracelets 
and bangles of rattan and _ swine's- teeth, and sometimes 
of strings of glass beads, which are also worn about the 
neck. A band of cocoa-nut cloth is worn round the 
waist and between the legs, which gives thcni a more 
decent appearance than the Outanatas and Dotirgaa* 
This want of clothing makes them also anxious to 
obtain sarongs j handkerchiefs, kabayas and any other 
articles that serve to cover the body. They are by no 
means so handsome and well- formed a race as the Outa- 
natas : on the contrary, there are many small and badly- 
proportioned men among them, and, upon the whole, they 
cannot be considered as more than a middle-sized race, 
yet many of the * Alfoeren,^ or mountaineers, are of large 
stature. Neither are their countenances so open and 
preposaessing as those of the Outanatas^ but they have 
