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BATCHIAN.
(OCTOBER 1858 To APRIL 1859.) I LANDED opposite the house kept for the use of the Resident of Ternate, and was met by a respectable middle-aged Malay, who told me he was Secretary to the Sultan, and would receive the official letter with which I had been provided.

On giving it him, he at once informed me I might have the use of the official residence which was empty.

I soon got my things on shore, but on looking about me found that the house would never do to stay long in.

There was no water except at a considerable distance, and one of my men would be almost entirely occupied getting water and firewood, and I should myself have to walk all through the village every day to the forest, and live almost in public, a thing I much dislike.