"He passed here under the name of Dain Maroola.

You sold him the gunpowder he had in that brig we captured." "How did you hear about the brig ?" asked Almayer.

"I know nothing about the powder he may have had." "An Arab trader of this place has sent the information about your goings on here to Batavia, a couple of months ago," said the officer.

"We were waiting for the brig outside, but he slipped past us at the mouth of the river, and we had to chase the fellow to the southward.

When he sighted us he ran inside the reefs and put the brig ashore.