I believe I am the only white man on the east coast that is a settled resident.

We get visitors from Macassar or Singapore sometimes--traders, agents, or explorers, but they are rare.
There was a scientific explorer here a year or more ago.

He lived in my house: drank from morning to night.

He lived joyously for a few months, and when the liquor he brought with him was gone he returned to Batavia with a report on the mineral wealth of the interior.

Ha, ha, ha! Good, is it not ?" He ceased abruptly and looked at his guests with a meaningless stare.
While they laughed he was reciting to himself the old story: "Dain dead, all my plans destroyed.