. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. ment to allow theblood and gin to escape. The tree remains and grows as awitness of their contract. It is one of their most sacred oaths, andalmost never, I am told, violated at least between individuals. If a member of a family of a king marries into that ofanother, the two kingdoms often swear friendship, and whenthe one is at war the other is bound to send men to aid brother coming to another brothers house is in everyrespect regarded as free, and as much at home as its o
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. ment to allow theblood and gin to escape. The tree remains and grows as awitness of their contract. It is one of their most sacred oaths, andalmost never, I am told, violated at least between individuals. If a member of a family of a king marries into that ofanother, the two kingdoms often swear friendship, and whenthe one is at war the other is bound to send men to aid brother coming to another brothers house is in everyrespect regarded as free, and as much at home as its is withheld from him; even his friends wife is notdenied him, and a child born of such an union would berecognised by the husband as his. In speaking of theGreenland Esquimaux, Egede expressly states that they werereputed the best and noblest-tempered, who, without any painor reluctance, would lend their friends their wives. Ascending by a very steep path, bordered with Mitrosacme,hare-bells, geraniums, wood-sorrel and some liliaceous plants,we reached the top of Eahomali at 4700 feet, whence a. IN TIMOR. 453 magnificent view lay before us of an immense tract of countrybetween both seas, riven and ploughed up in the most giganticmanner, not an acre of level land being visible anywhere saveby the margin of the seas, and in which every isolated peakand crag was capped by a dwelling. Having halted a shorttime to survey the scene, I observed that the sky was becomingovercast, and gave orders to the men to move on briskly inadvance, as I feared it would rain. My boy turned sharplyand besought me, 4 Oh, master, do not say that word! (forrain); these mountains are not good, and if you say thatword here, we shall certainly be overtaken in a storm. Theincident recalled to me a like dread of certain mountain-topsexhibited by the natives in Burn. Hence our course lay almost due south right over the peakof Tahaolat—rising up to 6000 feet; but its impracticablecrags necessita
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