"It may be that they object to our presence altogether, or it may be because they believe that we are going to the assistance of this Rajah Sehi.

It certainly does not look well for the future." "Not at all, sir.

However, we shall be at the rajah's place tomorrow morning, and shall then have a better opportunity of seeing how things are likely to go.

At any rate, he is sure to be civil for a time, and we shall be likely to procure fruit and vegetables, which, as the doctor says, are absolute necessities if the men are to be kept in good health." The next morning they anchored about ten o'clock opposite the campong of the rajah.

It was a good deal larger than any that they had passed on the way up, but the houses were mere huts, with the exception of a large wooden structure, which they at once concluded was the residence of the rajah.