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it is raised, might in some constitute a valuable article of trade to 
Europe. Besides these, kossumbo flowers and mangksla roots for 
dying, rice, nutmegs, cloves, slaves, and some other articles, are all 
exported. The Chinese who reside on the coasts are the principal 
merchants, especially as dealers in slaves. Rice is sent to all the 
surrounding countries as far as Bencoolen and the straits of Malacca ; 
and of late it is said to have been imported in considerable quantities 
into the Moluccas. The nutmegs are of the long kind, and are sup- 
posed to be produced in the recesses of the island in a wdld state, as 
they are sent to Java in great abundance, where they are called the 
Bali nutmegs, and are to be obtained at a very cheap rate. 
Gold is also found in this island; amine of this metal is worked at 
a place called Pejen, on the eastern coast, but the quantity of its pro- 
duce is not known. The imports of the Balinese are chiefly Indian 
chintz and other piece goods, opium, iron, and china-ware. Iron is 
in general demand, both in this and the other islands of the Oriental 
archipelago, and few articles appear to promise so much advantage, 
either to the importer or consumer, as none seems to be elsewhere 
manufactured, and so much both of the advancement and comfort of 
society depends on its use. 
A brief historical sketch of this people would have been interesting, 
as developing the means by which they have raised themselves above 
the other islanders of the same group, in most of the arts of life ; but, 
for this the materials are wanting, unless any documents should exist 
in the native language. The iidiabitants are supposed to have been 
converted to Budhism about 1740 years ago, when the priests of that 
sect were expelled from India by the superior influence of the Brah- 
mins. Sir Francis Drake, according to Valentyn, visited Bali in 1597; 
and the Dutch, who constantly traversed these seas, undoubtedly 
often landed on the shores of Bali, but they do not appear ever to 
have acquired much influence, or to have formed any establishment 
on the islands-. The latitude of the eastern peak is 8'^ 24' S. and its 
.ongitude 115^ 24' E. 
.Humanity and Civility of the Natives of Guinea. 
Mr. Adanson, speaking of the appearance of Senegal and Gambia, 
and of the disposition of the people, says, “Which way soever! turned 
my eyes, on this pleasant spot, I beheld a perfect image of pure 
nature; — an agreeable solitude, bounded on every side by charming 
landscapes, the rural situation of cottages in the midst of trees, and 
the ease and indolence of the negroes, reclined under the shades of 
their spreading foliage, together wi^h the simplicity of their manners, 
revived in my mind the idea of our first parents, and I seemed to con- 
template the world in its primitive state. They are, generally speak- 
ing, very good natured, sociable, and obliging. I was not a little 
pleased with this my first reception ; it convinced me there ought to 
be a considerable abatement made in the accounts I had read every 
where of the savage character of the Africans. I observed, both in 
the negroes and Moors, great humanity and sociabieness, which gave 
me strong hopes that 1 should be very safe amongst them, and meet 
