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CHAPTER LX. 
DEPARTURE FROM WAAI THROUGH THE FOREST BRILLIANT 
COLOURS — - BACK TO PASO VOYAGE TO AMBOINA 
GAIETIES THE TOWN OF AMBOINA TRACES OF THE 
PORTUGUESE EVENING SCENES OUR CHINESE FRIEND 1 — 
MANGOSTEENS THE DURIAN WAITING FOR THE STEAMER 
TRASS I EiV ROUTE FOR TIMOR-LA0T— ‘A RAJAH PILOT. 
Amboina, \2thJune. 
We really got away from Waai on the 9th. 
The previous evening the Rajah had been ear- 
nestly enjoined to have everything in readiness, 
and with the first streaks of dawn we were 
waiting to start. However, only thirteen of the 
eighteen men necessary to carry me and the 
baggage turned up, and before the five defaulters 
were routed out and the loads arranged in lots 
on the carrying-poles, the cool hours of the 
morning were gone, and the march was com- 
menced when it was already too hot for comfort. 
My palanquin was an old-fashioned, cumbrous 
