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AMBOYNA.
(DECEMBER 1857, OCTOBER 1859, FEBRUARY 1860.) TWENTY hours from Banda brought us to Amboyna, the capital of the Moluccas, and one of the oldest European settlements in the East.

The island consists of two peninsulas, so nearly divided by inlets of the sea, as to leave only a sandy isthmus about a mile wide near their eastern extremity.

The western inlet is several miles long and forms a fine harbour on the southern side of which is situated the town of Amboyna.

I had a letter of introduction to Dr.Mohnike, the chief medical officer of the Moluccas, a German and a naturalist.