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least the inference to be drawn from your statement of your residence in Java—was that you were an American engaged in business there. That is in a measure true, as I have ascertained during an intermittent cable communication with Java during the last two days; but the businesses in which you have engaged there are, in some instances at least, not such as a man is willing ordinarily to parade—some rather shady matters, Mr. Annis, concerning ships, one or two of which relate to natives in the Oceanic Islands. In short, Mr. Annis, you appear to be one of those world-wanderers who might, on your own account or at the instigation of some one else, very willingly take up an attempt to possess such a jewel as the Surakarta; and who might subsequently find it