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MISCELL ANEOUS NOTICES, &C. 
,-i. a _ _ >i n umeroudv, but still it will be the interest of some so to do : atid 
the beginning miy be within the nest decode of years. Gold, silver, tin, 
iron, diamonds, iron wood, coat, bees’ was, tingkuwang oil, various costly 
timber &e will go largely hence when sought for from abroad. I saw recent¬ 
ly a * refty piece of gold, about two ounces, said to have been found precise¬ 
ly as it then appeared, and it certainly seemed to warrant the statement. 
Into the mitter of prices l shall not enter, though T make it my aim to learn 
somethin" on all po'nts that concern magnificent Kalamantan. The habits 
of Malay princes, Sultans, &c., are of course similar to what we find elsewhere - 
though there is a freedom here from the open valgarity and vice of cockfight, 
in" 'gambling, &c. Ou chief Captain Cninaman is a man of cleverness, 
and is probably amassmg money; he is quite familiar with many European 
pecularities, and entertains a white man handsomely, whether at his office 
or table .* his dinners offer choice variety, in Irs own style and in ours. From 
a man like him yon may never see the laughably low meanness of a Malay 
Tuan who, when offered a bundle of cheroots from which to seeci one foi 
smoking, will often take the whole, and crown the a.-t by remarking that, 
not feeling like smoking just now he will carry them home . this thing I fiist 
noticed here, and have seen it repeatedly in a month. A gentleman who r/ 
away from his house, an 1 has brought but few with him, may thus see hi? 
hopes vanish in an instant—though not, as he had f mdly thought., in smoke . 
it resnl s not from stupidity but purpose. Pontianak is decidedly a healthy 
place and both it. and the whole Island seem quite free from those speedily 
fatal attacks of fever that are kn >wn on Java, and in other parts of the Ar¬ 
chipelago : great excesses escape with wondrous impunity I he iron steamer 
v Borneo," of 4 to 5 feet draught, has been expected to arrive here within 
September, bringing the Governor who was appointed in 1816 : “ has been” 
is the proper exore sion, as I believe that all estimates are now postponed, 
pro tern. : it is sincerely to be hoped that our upper wateis may soon be 
visited by an Official party, in such a vehicle * The season for Pont’k to be 
drenched and flooded by rain and Sea-watei is approaching-of December 
I can *peak by experience.’ a visitor should come in either ot the summer ; 
months of Europe, if he would walk for exercise or pleasure: a horse or 
carriage lie may not hope t>> see. He will find merely the locale of a town 
which is to be larger in every respect than Singapore now is: when that day 
shall be, rests, under God, with Orang Putih. It has been my high satisfac¬ 
tion to hold recently a sabbath service tor the gentlemen of the place, as 
well as any others who may choose to attend; may it never be given up 
while there is a white man at the seat of the Residency, and a preachei to 
conduct it! The last No. ot the “ Journ tl” here is that of July, brought by 
a vessel which left S. August 9. A prahu is now daily expected, having been 
away on the same route, to and fro, 26 days: still ves-els often trifle away 
six weeks in t.ds Ferdage. 
* This visit has since taken place. — Ed. 
KALAMANTAN. 
