Skirting the coast are tolerably high, well-wooded mountain-ranges, infested, according to all accounts, by numerous tigers, that render all travelling very dangerous.
On the 3rd of September we ran into the port of Singapore; but it was so late in the evening, that we could not disembark.
On the following morning I paid a visit to the firm of Behu and Meyer, to whom I had letters of introduction.

Madame Behu was the first German lady I had met since my departure from Hamburgh.

I cannot say how delighted I was at forming her acquaintance.

I was once more able to give free vent to my feelings in my own native tongue.

Madame Behu would not hear of my lodging in an hotel; I was immediately installed as a member of her own amiable family.