iS6 C O O K’s VOYAGE. 
wholly to the cultivation of that important article of trade, and 
laying out all their ground in plantations, can breed few ani- 
mals : poffibly their fupplies by this occaftonal traffic were 
precarious ; poffibly they were jealous of being fupplanted in 
their turn ; but however that be, their Ealt India Company, 
about ten years ago, entered into a treaty with the Rajas, by 
which the Company ftipulatea to furniffi each of them w'ith a 
certain quantity of filk, fine linen, cutlery ware, arrack and 
other articles, every year ; and the Rajas engaged that neither 
they nor their fubjetls fhould trade w'ith any perfon except the 
Company, without having firft obtained their confent, and 
that they would admit a refident on behalf of the Company, 
to refide upon the iiland, and fee that their part of the treaty 
was fulfilled ; they alfo engaged to fupply annually a certain 
quantity of rice, maize, and calevances. Their maize and 
calevances are fent to Timor in floops, which are kept there 
for that purpofe, each of which is navigated by ten Indians; 
and the rice is fetched away annually by a fhip which brings 
the Company’s returns, and anchors alternately in each of the 
three bays. Thefe returns are delivered to the Rajas in the 
form of a prefent, and the calk of arrack they and their principal 
people never ceafe to drink, as long as a drop of it remains. 
In confequence of this treaty, the Dutch placed three per- 
fons upon the iftand : Mr. Lange, his colleague, the native of 
Timor, the fon of an Indian woman by a Portuguefe, and one 
Frederick Craig, he fon of an Indian woman, by a Dutchman. 
Lange vihis each of the Rajas in two months, when he makes 
the tour cf the ifland, attended by fifty flaves on horfeback. 
He exhorts thefe Chiefs to plant,- if it appears that they have 
been remifs, and obferves where the crops are got in, that he 
may order floops to fetch it ; fo that it paffes immediately 
from the ground to the Dutch ftorehoufes at Timor. In thefe 
excurfions he always carries with him fome bottles of arrack, 
which he finds of great ufe in opening the hearts of the Rajas 
with whom he is to deal. . 
During the ten years that he had refided upon this ifland 
he had never feen a European befides ourfelves, except at the „ 
arrival of the Dutch fhip, which had failed about two months 
before we arrived ; and he is now to be diflinguifhed from 
the natives only by his colour and his drefs, for he fits upon 
the ground, chews his betele, and in every refpedl has adopted 
their character and manners : he has married an Indian weman 
of the ifland of Timor, who keeps his houfe after the fafhion 
of her country ; and lie gave that as a reafon for not inviting 
us to vifit him, faying, that he could entertain us in no other 
manner than the Indians had done, and he fpokeno language 
readily but that of the country. 
The office of Mr. Frederic Craig is to inftruft the youth of 
the 
