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Rh always seen in royal cemeteries; as well as the Kuppoo, a large cotton tree, producing a very inferior kind of cotton.

Having seen all that interested us, we refreshed ourselves with cocoa-nut water, for neither here nor in the Straits does it go by the name of milk, and proceeded on our journey through a very uninteresting country, in which we saw only fields of dried sawahs, looking like scorched-up stubble, with an occasional plantation of teak.

Madjaagoang, our next station, was formerly the dwelling-place of the prince whose tomb we saw in the Koobooran. About fifteen miles from this station are the ruins of a town of the same name, said to have been destroyed about the same time as Modjophait.