They trade a little on their own account, and both parties seem to get on very well together.
The plan seems a more sensible one than that which we adopt, of effectually preventing a man from earning anything towards paying his debts by shutting him up in a jail.
My own servants were three in number.

Ali, the Malay boy whom I had picked up in Borneo, was my head man.

He had already been with me a year, could turn his hand to anything, and was quite attentive and trustworthy.

He was a good shot, and fond of shooting, and I had taught him to skin birds very well.

The second, named Baderoon, was a Macassar lad; also a pretty good boy, but a desperate gambler.