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"Well, the most direct course would be to make the Straits of Macassar, and then steer for Java." "And when there?" "You would then be fifteen or sixteen hundred leagues from the Cape." "So much?" "Yes, that is about the distance in a straight line across the Indian Ocean. When at the Cape, another fifteen days' sail will bring you to the line; five or six weeks after that St.
"'What what would Sir Gregory say? said the senior clerk. "Macassar Jones sighed deeply. Nature had not made the senior clerk a cruel man; but yet this allusion was cruel. The young Macassar had drunk deeply of the waters that welled from the fountain of Sir Gregory's philosophy.
Long before Macassar Jones was present in the chamber she had snatched up the tambour- frame that lay beside her, and when he entered she was zealously engaged on the fox's head that was to ornament the toe of a left- foot slipper. Who shall dare to say that those slippers were intended to grace the feet of Macassar Jones?" 'But I suppose they were, said Katie.
It took them sixty hours to traverse the Java Sea, the helm being shifted for the passage through the Macassar Strait at sunrise on the third morning out from the Straits of Sunda. The Balabalongan Islands were safely passed that same evening, ere darkness fell; and twenty-four hours later they emerged into the open Sea of Celebes, and again shifted their helm.
With the Portuguese merchants he was on most friendly terms, for twenty years before the opening of this story he had married the daughter of one of the wealthiest of their number, who was settled at Macassar, in Celebes.
More important than all these however is the trade to Aru, a group of islands situated on the south-west coast of New Guinea, and of which almost the whole produce comes to Macassar in native vessels. These islands are quite out of the track of all European trade, and are inhabited only by black mop-headed savages, who yet contribute to the luxurious tastes of the most civilized races.
It may require some effort of the imagination, certainly, to discover the precursor of such a state of things in the miserable traffic now carried on by the Macassar proas; but still, I think, we possess some data on which to found such an opinion, and I am persuaded that Port Essington will ultimately hold the proud position I predict for it.
"I have coincided with a great man. Macassar is overthrown! Macassar, monsieur, is a cosmetic given that is, sold, and sold dear to make the hair grow." "My dear Monsieur Birotteau," said Vauquelin, "there are not two ounces of Macassar oil in all Europe.
"No interest in the sun too tiring. . . . Unless you carry me there." As a matter of fact he was carried there a few months afterwards, and his was the second white man's grave in Sambir; but at present he was alive if rather drunk. He asked abruptly "And the woman?" "Oh! Lingard, of course, kept her and her ugly brat in Macassar. Sinful waste of money that!
'Well, Charley, and how do 'Crinoline and Macassar' go on? said Norman, as they sauntered away together up the towing-path above Putney.
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