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to Waai next morning at 5 a.m., having come 
to Paso with merchandise that evening* At that 
hour, accordingly, we were in waiting, only to 
discover that it was the very prahu in which we 
should have gone the previous morning : the men 
had come round, hut covered their submission 
with this stoiy about its being from Waai. Bo 
much for their veracity. 
We had to wait two hours on the beach till 
the crew had finally mustered ; but once fairly 
away, we soon forgot all the vexations of the few 
previous days in the delight of coasting thus 
leisurely a tropical shore. 
At Ten gah -tengah our rowers refused to go 
further, saying the strong tide had so fatigued 
them that they could not take us all the way. 
So we paid them the full fare, at their demand, 
in order to save time, and proceeded to ask the 
Rajah to order another boat out for us. 
The appearance of the Mohammedan village of 
Tengah-tengah and the manners of the inhabi- 
tants are marvellously different from those of 
the Christian villages of Paso and Waai. Though 
the people are poor, and much less advanced in 
civilised ways, they are courteous and unassum- 
ing. Their sole wealth is the bread-fruit tree, 
which lines each terrace, the village being built 
