It is used on the commonest occasions, and a few palm leaves stuck outside a garden as a sign of the "pomali" will preserve its produce from thieves as effectually as the threatening notice of man-traps, spring guns, or a savage dog would do with us.

The dead are placed on a stage, raised six or eight feet above the ground, sometimes open and sometimes covered with a roof.

Here the body remains until the relatives can afford to make a feast, when it is buried.

The Timorese are generally great thieves, but are not bloodthirsty.

They fight continually among themselves, and take every opportunity of kidnapping unprotected people of other tribes for slaves; but Europeans may pass anywhere through the country in safety.