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who are remarkable for their maritime activity, and for 
their friendly disposition towards European strangers. 
The mixture has arisen chiefly from these spots having 
been the places of refuge for offenders against the regu- 
lations established for the monopoly of spices iu the 
^loluccaSj and which, until a comparatively recent period, 
had been so rigidly enforced, that even suspected persons 
were unwilling to submit to the summaiTr jurisdiction of 
the Dutch residents and " post-houders/-* if they had the 
slightest prospect of escaping to another district where 
they would be beyond the reach of the Spice-lawa. The 
pilots and interpreters who accompany European traders 
on their voyages to T^ew Guinea, are of this race, chiefly 
from Goram and Greby, and they are considered upon the 
whole as faithful and intelligent. The cordiality of the 
natives of Goram towards European strangers, affords a 
strong conti-ast to the resen^e which tempers the hospi- 
tality of even the best disposed Mohammedan natives ot 
the Jloluecas. 
The eastern eirtrcraity of Cerani, and also the greater 
portion of the north coast of that island, was inhabited 
by Papuans on the first arrival of Europeans in the East ; 
but they are now only to he found in the jungles, and 
seem to be rapidly disappearing before the brown tribes, 
who are both numerous and warlike. Valentyn, the old 
Dutch historian of the East, who resided for many years 
at Amboyna and Banda, thus describes the condition of 
the Papuan communities of the coast of Ccram in the 
early part of the last century : " Hote (a river on the 
north coast of the island) is the northei-nmost rendezvous 
of the people of Mesaowal (Mysol), and it appears that 
