More talk, more delay, and another eight or ten hours' consultation were not to be endured; so we started at once, the poor interpreter almost weeping at our obstinacy and hurry, and assuring us "the Pumbuckle would be very sorry, and the Rajah would be very sorry, and if we would but wait all would be right." I gave Ali my horse, and started on foot, but he afterwards mounted behind Mr.Ross's groom, and we got home very well, though rather hot and tired.
At Mataram we called at the house of Gusti Gadioca, one of the princes of Lombock, who was a friend of Mr.Carter's, and who had promised to show me the guns made by native workmen.

Two guns were exhibited, one six, the other seven feet long, and of a proportionably large bore.

The barrels were twisted and well finished, though not so finely worked as ours.

The stock was well made, and extended to the end of the barrel.
Silver and gold ornament was inlaid over most of the surface, but the locks were taken from English muskets.

The Gusti assured me, however, that the Rajah had a man who made locks and also rifled barrels.