They had been two years away, but were full of people, with several black Papuans on board.

At 6 P.M.we passed Wangiwangi, low but not flat, inhabited and subject to Boutong.

We had now fairly entered the Molucca Sea.

After dark it was a beautiful sight to look down on our rudders, from which rushed eddying streams of phosphoric light gemmed with whirling sparks of fire.

It resembled (more nearly than anything else to which I can compare it) one of the large irregular nebulous star-clusters seen through a good telescope, with the additional attraction of ever-changing form and dancing motion.
Dec.