. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. VIII.] A BANDIT BUTLER. 159 bracelets and rows of gold plaques hung upon the breast, trotted about with evident delight. These latter ornaments, which are inscribed in rehef with verses from the Koran written in Bugis character, are made in Macassar, and are often of beautiful work- manship. We learnt from an initiated Dutchman that lager beer and sagucir were being dispensed to a favoured few
. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. VIII.] A BANDIT BUTLER. 159 bracelets and rows of gold plaques hung upon the breast, trotted about with evident delight. These latter ornaments, which are inscribed in rehef with verses from the Koran written in Bugis character, are made in Macassar, and are often of beautiful work- manship. We learnt from an initiated Dutchman that lager beer and sagucir were being dispensed to a favoured few in a corner. The. A GOA CHIEF. latter is a sweet palm wine, not unlike cider, and is made from the juice of Arenga saccharifcra,—a tree which, with its thick fronds and heavy pendulous masses of globular green fruit, soon becomes a familiar object to the traveller in Celebes and the Moluccas. Our servitor had a history. Now the major-domo of the king, and a most important personage in his way, he had seen many vicissi- tudes. By birth he was apparently part Malay, part Portuguese, and part negro, but of however many nationalities he may have been, he was at one time in affluent circumstances. An unlucky speculation lost him all his money—nearly £4000—and he took to the road, or rather to the mountains, where for eight years he. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933. London : J. Murray
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