The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . ch less attractive place. The houses are built of mud, and thatched. Even the * Veth: Een Ncderlansch reiziger op Zuid Selebes (); Riedel: He landsehap Bocool Noord Selebes(1872); papers in the ZeUschrift fib- Bthiiolugiv (1871), iuid Tijrischrift roor Inditche Taa! Land at Volkendiiiidf (1874);and Ihe works of Valentyn, Rcinwardt, llillies, Stavorinus, Ramts, Crawfurd, Van dcr Halt, Stulenvoll, Van derBosch, Wallace, Bickniore, and others. THE -MALAYAN AUC
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . ch less attractive place. The houses are built of mud, and thatched. Even the * Veth: Een Ncderlansch reiziger op Zuid Selebes (); Riedel: He landsehap Bocool Noord Selebes(1872); papers in the ZeUschrift fib- Bthiiolugiv (1871), iuid Tijrischrift roor Inditche Taa! Land at Volkendiiiidf (1874);and Ihe works of Valentyn, Rcinwardt, llillies, Stavorinus, Ramts, Crawfurd, Van dcr Halt, Stulenvoll, Van derBosch, Wallace, Bickniore, and others. THE -MALAYAN AUCIliriXAGO: TIMOR. 2oi fort is only a mud enclosure, and the custoni-lniuse iind church arc reared of the sameliunilile material, without any attempt at decoration. The governors house makesynater pretensions; but even it is, at hest, only a whitewashed bungalow of a veryordinary deserijition. However, to keep up the Lusitanian characteristics, this wretchedencampment of Portugal is ridden to death by oflicials, black and white official dressesand yoigcous uniforms being the objects which chiefly strike the eye in the streets of. \1L\\ IN ill>: JtiWN ^>V MAt A>~AK. i ^. Dilli. To add to its discomforts, the town is surrounded by swamps and mnd flats,which often impart a fatal fever to the new comer on the first niufht of bis stay, andthe malaria against which even long residents do not consider themselves proof. Timor, however, is not an unprofitable island, for sandal-wood, ivory, horses, tortoise-shell, edible swallows-nests, &c., are exported, and on a bank thirty miles south-east fromKoepang there is a pearl fishery. Though the Dutch and Portuguese rule the island, yetthe actual government is through the numerous native rajabs, who have divided it intoseveral small kingdoms. Much more, however, could be made of the island than at present,especially in the section owned by the Portuguese. In Dilli, for certain, one-half of the 254. THE COrXTEIES OP THE WORLD.
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