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CHAPTER XL 
TENIMRER—LARAT STRAITS RJTABEL THE POST- HOLDER 
CHOOSING A SITE FOR A HOUSE-BUILDING OUR NEW 
DWELLING — -OUR TRADE — GOODS AT A DISCOUNT— OUR VISI- 
TORS A STATE OF WARFARE A PALAVER AT WAITIDAL 
ESCAPE, 
By daylight on the 12th we were sailing straight 
for the Tenimber or Timor-laut Islands, through 
a rough sea and a cold damp atmosphere. When 
the islands were first discovered, and the name 
Timor-laut or Tenimber first applied, is not 
known. Our first reliable information about 
them is derived from Captain Owen Stanley, 
who, in his ‘ Visits to the Islands in the Arafura 
Sea/ says ; “We sailed from Port Essington on 
March 18, 1839. , . . Light airs prevented our 
clearing the harbour till the morning of the 
19tli, and at 3 p.m. on the 20th we made the 
land of Timor-laut. ... At daylight on the 
21st we made all sail to the northward, , , . and 
