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three. Probably the excesses committed by the Tidore 
Malays, which are repeatedly noticed by Mi*. Bruijn Kops, 
have been confined to those tribes which desired to 
maintain an independence. The Dutch Expedition next 
proceeded to Bun, an island situated farther up the Great 
Bay, which seems to have been only recently opened as 
a trading portj and it would appear also that the in- 
habitants had had little experience of the tax-colleeting 
flotilla, for the women and children did not take to 
flight on ita approach, as was the case in nearly every 
other village near which it appeared. Mr. Bruijn Kopa 
states : " Ships very seldom visit thia island. The bark 
* Rembang/ Captain Deighton, had, however, been here 
four times. Captaiu Deighton was known to all the 
inhabitants, and they frequently spoke of him with love 
and affection. To his amiable character and hoiiom'able 
conduct are to be attributed the circumstance, that we did 
not observe in these people any signs of the fear and 
fitlipicion which were so \isible at Dory. Men, women, 
and children, sun"Ounded us from the first, and assisted 
us in every way they could."* This is a handsome 
tribute frani an officer in a foreign naval service. His 
descnption of an interview with the inhabitants is so 
strikingly illustrative of the state of society, that it mnst 
he extracted entire. 
One evening when we went on shore, all the children 
of the village were collected together, and beads were 
thi-own amongst them. Not only the children, but 
women, men, and even some of the chiefs of the flotilla, 
♦ Braiju Kops^ '« Tijdschrift/' p. 19S. 
