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CHAPTER XVI. 
A MB 0 IN A - — THE MAQUIKS VOYAGE FROM TENTH BER OUR 
BLACK PARROT — BANDA AMBOINA SOCIETY — DUTCH 
HOUSEKEEPING A NATIVE WEDDING — BRIDE DANCING 
FOR MONEY SANTA CLAUS— LEAVE FOR BANDA. 
November. 
We are now very much at home with Dr and 
Mrs Hachik in their pleasant abode, where they 
have been already some time comfortably settled. 
On arriving in Amboina, we found that the reg- 
ular mail of the Moluccas was due in a day or 
two. H. being anxious to despatch the most 
important of his collections to Europe by this, 
the first opportunity, we laboured incessantly at 
labelling and packing, the task occupying the 
greater part of the nights as well as the days 
— a great strain while so weakened by fever. 
We have now settled into a pleasant routine, 
in which we continue the work in a more 
leisurely way. The doctor being himself a keen 
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