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CHAPTER XVIII. 
PORTUGUESE TIMOR SERVANTS JOURNEY TO TIIE HILLS— 
UP THE TIRING ROCKS — OUR HUT THE HOUSE-WARMING 
EXPLORATIONS — THE RAINY SEASON SCARCITY OF 
FOOD GOMA, THE INTERPRETER - — VISITORS - — COFFEE — 
PETROLEUM STORES, 
%d January. 
It is strange to hear no Malay in Timor. This 
language is heard otherwise all over the civilised 
archipelago ; but natives here must learn the 
language of the possessors if they will have any 
contact with them. Our friends have consider- 
able difficulty in making their wants intelligible 
to their servants. The circumstance affects us 
too very directly. Our Amboina servants who 
had been with us in Timor-laut said they would 
willingly accompany us to any other island of 
the archipelago except Timor, “ where their 
language was not spoken, and the natives were 
so different.'* I fear we shall have difficulty in 
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RAFALES LIBRARY 
SINGAPORE. 3,9. 
