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Some account of Princes Island

the divisions &c. are quite the same

Their dispositions as far as we saw them were very good, at least they dealt very fairly with us upon all occasions  Indian like however, always asking double what they would take for whatever they had to dispose of  this however producd no inconvenenices to us who were us'd to this kind of trafick

In making out Bargains they were very handy & supplyd the want of small money reasonably well by laying together a quantity of any thing for which & when the price was settled dividing it among each other according to the proportion each had brought to the general stock  they would sometimes change our money  giving 240 doits for a Spanish dollar  that is 5s/ sterling & 92  that is 2s/ sterling for a Bengall Rupee  the money they chose however was doits in all small bargains  dubbelcheys they had but wer very nice in taking them

Their Language is different both from the Malay &​​​​​​​ Javan  they all however speak Malay

 

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