Show an Adva utaro Ex gluhman abman an india officer in in an account vt vf a trip from india ind d a to port aji phiillip llie after he pot got clear of jav head we had a afresh fres breeze from the he southeast and is as we had been unable to take in waler at anjer allier the he captain decided upon doing so at some small island I 1 had never heard the name rf ef beffi they are called the cocoas coccas anti and are about aw to miles to the southward and eastward of java head their hi tory ii ig ral raer her curious A captain ross ros fol foi formerly merly in the E st indian service lives on them with his family before borneo was given up to tte the dutch lie he w wis is governor of it and while there he advised the english government to allow him to build a sloop af f war ai a i there was such magnificent tem lier she I 1 was wa launched only boniv the day before the island was given up but hie flie dutch allowed h hns m to finish her an aal 1 the english government there made a preen pre ent en of if her to captain jross as a for his bis service he ci ni pil about in her bier for many years and as it reds rediscovered covered these islands for they had been known to ex ext st altho although ligh never visited he took look a fancy to them wrote home to england and brought out ont the whole of his family tue english government 1011 retired ed him protection he be has placed lim himself h inela self under that of the datch and got malay slave slaves whom he liberated upon a arriving brivil n g I 1 in is the islands island and formed a settlement there here his ship was wai on a voyage to balagia Ba lavia and abid he was many years with without riat having a any nv intercourse with the he world but being warly nearly I 1 y it t arved ved for the alanis s produced little more than cocoa tint drets trets he fie built a schooner schoon choon fr fir making the ro ropes peg of the cocoanut coco anul anut fibre fabre anti and i the he sails of the thick bark that iq i around a cocoanut below the branches blanches ite he was aist salin alap jr when a whaler put into the island anti and from her he fie procured canvas and went to B alavia since which time lime he has traded re there here selling oil of which he makes great quantities lies having a steam engine of ten horsepower to kruise and the nut coptain ross rosa is w a stran strange Lre briant looking mar he and his sons i debem bin bling Ro Rob binon incon Cin ci they live in wooden hois ho is eq raised about ten feet in am piles from the gro groina ind and are as rough as you can wail well amarine im apine they h hive ive hook book and the quantity captain ross has read is 11 II has been twenty six years in the wands island tiie tae balays malays 6 are a lazy set of fellow he pa pays s them so much a day a and ff to co well that hat they boult work for more than three or four d lya iyo a week the gi greatest eanest punishment he inflicts is to banish them from the islands |