Before they left, they presented me with a quantity of _beche-de-mer_, or sea-slugs, which make most excellent soup.

At the place indicated by the Malays, which was in Raffles Bay, the chief spoke quite excellent English.

One of his wives could even say the Lord's Prayer in English, though, of course, she did not know what she was talking about.

"Captain Jack Davis," as he called himself, had been for some little time on one of her Majesty's ships, and he told me that not many marches away there was an old European settlement; he even offered to guide me there, if I cared to go.

He first led me to an old white settlement in Raffles Bay, called, I think, Fort Wellington, where I found some large fruit-trees, including ripe yellow mangoes.