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Updated: May 17, 2025
There are some fishing stakes near here they said. They are coming directly." Again she was talking and sobbing together. She wanted to be forgiven. Forgiven? What for? Ah! the scene in Macassar. As if he had time to think of that! What did he care what she had done months ago?
By-and-by out come some bigger lads and tie two long hop-poles together with which to poke down the swallows' nests under the chapel eaves. When the church doors are thrown open by the noiseless vergers, and patchouli and macassar, and the overpowering, rich smell of silks and satins rushes out in a volume of heated air, in a few minutes the whole place is vacant.
It was covered with fine cane mats, for the manufacture of which Macassar is celebrated; against the further wall were arranged my guncase, insect-boxes, clothes, and books; my mattress occupied the middle, and next the door were my canteen, lamp, and little store of luxuries for the voyage; while guns, revolver, and hunting knife hung conveniently from the roof.
Macassar is the most celebrated place in the East for "running a muck." There are said to be one or two a month on the average, and five, ten, or twenty persons are sometimes killed or wounded at one of them. It is the national, and therefore the honourable, mode of committing suicide among the natives of Celebes, and is the fashionable way of escaping from their difficulties.
My dear Fanny, I believe I wrote to you last mail, and have now little to say except that I am still a prisoner in Singapore and unable to get away to my land of promise, Macassar, with whose celebrated oil you are doubtless acquainted.
'How d'ye do, Mr. Macassar? said she. 'And how d'ye do, my Lady Crinoline? said Harry. After that Katie never called Charley Mr. Macassar again. They all went to church, and Katie was left to sleep or read, or think of the new purse that she was to make, as best she might. And then they dined, and then they walked out; but still without Katie.
I decided to send what goods I had, with my two assistants, to Macassar on Celebes, where the Dayaks who were to take part in the New Guinea undertaking would also be transported. It might be possible for Chonggat to do some collecting in the neighbourhood of the town. At all events, it would be more convenient to have them wait for me there than to take them to Java.
Almayer had heard of him before he had been three days in Macassar, had heard the stories of his smart business transactions, his loves, and also of his desperate fights with the Sulu pirates, together with the romantic tale of some child a girl found in a piratical prau by the victorious Lingard, when, after a long contest, he boarded the craft, driving the crew overboard.
Almayer went on struggling desperately, but with a feebleness of purpose depriving him of all chance of success against men so unscrupulous and resolute as his rivals the Arabs. The trade fell away from the large godowns, and the godowns themselves rotted piecemeal. The old man's banker, Hudig of Macassar, failed, and with this went the whole available capital.
"'Oh! oh! oh! sobbed Crinoline. "'It must be the heat, said Macassar, knocking down a flower-pot in his attempt to open the window a little wider. 'O dear, what have I done? said he. 'I think I'd better go. "'Never mind the flower-pot, said Crinoline, looking up through her tears. 'Oh! oh! oh! oh! me. Oh! my heart. "Macassar looked at his watch.
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