This Occupied Me A Month; And
Having Shipped Them Off For Singapore, Had My Guns Repaired, And
Received A New One From England, Together With A Stock Of Pins,
Arsenic, And Other Collecting Requisites.
I began to feel eager
for work again, and had to consider where I should spend my time
until
The end of the year; I had left Macassar seven months
before, a flooded marsh being ploughed up for the rice-sowing.
The rains had continued for five months, yet now all the rice was
cut, and dry and dusty stubble covered the country just as when
I had first arrived there.
After much inquiry I determined to visit the district of Maros,
about thirty miles north of Macassar, where Mr. Jacob Mesman, a
brother of my friend, resided, who had kindly offered to find me
house-room and give me assistance should I feel inclined to visit
him. I accordingly obtained a pass from the Resident, and having
hired a boat set off one evening for Maros. My boy Ali was so ill
with fever that I was obliged to leave him in the hospital, under
the care of my friend the German doctor, and I had to make shift
with two new servants utterly ignorant of everything. We coasted
along during the night, and at daybreak entered the Maros river,
and by three in the afternoon reached the village. I immediately
visited the Assistant Resident, and applied for ten men to carry
my baggage, and a horse for myself.
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