A wife is regularly purchased from the parents, the price being a large assortment of articles, always including gongs, crockery, and cloth.

They told me that some of the tribes kill the old men and women when they can no longer work, but I saw many very old and decrepid people, who seemed pretty well attended to.

No doubt all who have much intercourse with the Bugis and Ceramese traders gradually lose many of their native customs, especially as these people often settle in their villages and marry native women.
The trade carried on at Dobbo is very considerable.

This year there were fifteen large praus from Macassar, and perhaps a hundred small boats from Ceram, Goram, and Ke.

The Macassar cargoes are worth about L1,000.
each, and the other boats take away perhaps about L3,000, worth, so that the whole exports may be estimated at L18,000.