. 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. 342 THE ABU ISLANDS. [chap. for the native-prepared skins, they cannot now be obtained at Dobbo under seventeen times that suni.^ There were but fifty people in the whole ^Tllage, we learnt, but the Posthouder told us that, at the height of the trading season, there would be between four and five thousand. How they can all. BUGIS PRAU, DOBBO. find accommodation it is difficult to understand, fo
. 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. 342 THE ABU ISLANDS. [chap. for the native-prepared skins, they cannot now be obtained at Dobbo under seventeen times that suni.^ There were but fifty people in the whole ^Tllage, we learnt, but the Posthouder told us that, at the height of the trading season, there would be between four and five thousand. How they can all. BUGIS PRAU, DOBBO. find accommodation it is difficult to understand, for there is cer- tainly not house-room for half that number. Many must sleep in 1 The prices of the six kinds of Birds of Paradise used in trade vary considerably at the different islands. They appeared highest at Ternate. The folloAving are the prices per " koddy " of twenty skins at that place and Macassar, together with those asked by the Rajah of Salwatti :- "Males" (P. apoda) "¥eraa.\es" (P. minor) "Red birds" (P. rubra) . " Many-wires " (5'. «Z6a) . "Green birds" (D. speciosa) "King-birds" (C. rcgius) . These prices are in gulden of one shilling and eightpence. Macassar. Ternate. Salwatti. 90-100 70-90 85-120 80-90 80-110 100 110-130 170 140-150 50-70 30 30-40 20-30. 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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