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the verandah, we saw a vessel standing into the 
bay. H, hurried down, and found that it was 
an intermediate steamer, but that no other 
would be in for some time ; so with utmost 
haste all that we wished to take with us was 
bundled together and transported to the ship. 
We left everything but clothes and collections. 
There was no time to bestow our goods on any 
one capable of appreciating them : they were 
left to be appropriated by our uncouth neigh- 
bours, and no small share fell to the old 
woman who had so basely deserted me in my 
hour of need. 
The Governor’s family were again our com- 
panions on the return voyage. A great sorrow 
befell them at the last. The day before their 
departure, Henrique, a beautiful boy of ten 
years, was buried. He seemed the least likely 
of any to succumb. He had been ailing, as were 
all the others; but it was a sad shock when, 
after a paroxysm of some thirty minutes’ dura- 
tion, he lay dead. I have just heard from 
Mademoiselle Isabel that the good old Jacinthe 
died near Singapore, and was buried at sea. 
We had a very roundabout voyage here. 
Sailing directly, we could have reached Java 
from Timor in five or six days. No direct 
