The people of this country were all rather shy, but, young or old, they never passed one or saw one passing their door without a salutation.

In their musical voices they would say, "Are you walking ?" ("Jalan, jalan ?") "Will you come along ?" one would answer.
For a long time after I arrived the children regarded the "one-man ship" with suspicion and fear.

A native man had been blown away to sea many years before, and they hinted to one another that he might have been changed from black to white, and returned in the sloop.

For some time every movement I made was closely watched.

They were particularly interested in what I ate.