Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0483
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[Page 483]
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Some account of Savu
any person except the company unless they had the permission of their resident that they should yearly supply a certain quantity of Rice Maize & Calevanses so many sloop loads the Maize & Calevances are sent off to Timor in sloops which are kept on the Island for that purpose each navigated by ten Indians the Rice is taken away by a ship which at the time of that harvest comes to the Island annualy bringing the companies presents & anchoring by turns in each of the three bays
In consequence of this treaty Mr Lange, a Portugese Indian who seem to be his second, & a duch Indian who serves for schoolmaster, are permitted to live among them
[Margin note] Tour
Mr Lange himself is attended by 50 Slaves on horseback attended by whoom he once every two months makes the tour of the Island visiting all the Radjas exhorting those to plant who seem Idle & observing where the Crops are got in which he immediately sends Sloops for Navigated by these same slaves, so that the crop proceeds immediately from the ground to the Duch storehouses at Timor in