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these Papoewas come Here to trade with those of the Bay 
of Hatoewe. It is also the boundary- limit {j;renspaal} of 
the Pa]ioewas there. For those of Messowal, and their 
adhei-ents, formerly used to plunder the other Papocwas 
who lived to the east and north-eaist of Hote, and there- 
fore they named this place ' Hote/ which, in their lan- 
guage, means boundary-limit, or separation. Those of 
Messowal had left off this plundering for some years, 
when presently the Papoewas to the east and north-east 
of Hote attacked the other natives ; and so many com- 
plaints were laid before their Honom's (the Haad^ or 
council), by the inhabitants of Amboyna, that in the first 
instance their Honours counselled the Sultan of Tidorc, in 
Saif-Addeen^s time, to prevent these occm-rences j which 
he pretended to do. But afterwards he instructed them 
to attack and plunder our allies ; and their Honours were 
obliged to give orders to the people of Amboyna to 
attack the Papoewas, not only on our coasts, but also in 
their own nests on the coasts of Maba^ Weda, and Sal* 
watti.* The old residences of the inhabitants of Hote, at 
least while they remained on the banks of the river, were 
like those of the other Papoewas, in the high forest, 
where they built their houses, according to an old native 
custom, on high piles, or among the bitmehes of the 
waringin-trees, ao far from the ground that they could 
only be got at by climbing laddei-s, which they probably 
did in order to secure themselves from sudden attacks. 
But in the year 1675, they removed to a spot a little to 
* The two first of these places are on the east coast of Gilolo, and 
the last is a large isLmd situated between Gilolo and New Gainen. — 
G. ^y, E. 
