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CHAPTER XVII. 



CELEBES. 



MENADO. JUNE TO SEFTEMBER, 1859. 



It was after my residence at Timor-coui^ang that I visited 

 the north-eastern extremity of Celebes, touching on my way 

 at Banda, Amboyna, and Ternate. I reached Menado on the 

 10th of June, 1859, and was very kindly received by Mr. 

 Tower, an Englishman, but a very old resident in Menado, 

 where he carries on a general business. He introduced me 

 to Mr. L. Duivenboden (whose father had been my friend at 

 Ternate), who had much taste for natural history, and to Mr. 

 Nevs, a native of Menado, but who was educated at Calcutta, 

 and to whom Dutch, English and Malay Avere equally mother- 

 tongues. All these gentlemen showed me the greatest kind- 

 ness, accompanied me in my earliest walks about the country, 

 and assisted me by every means in their power. I spent a 

 week in the town very pleasantly, making explorations and in- 

 quiries after a good collecting-station, which I had much dif- 

 ficulty in finding, owing to the wide cultivation of coffee and 

 cacao, which has led to the clearing away of the forest for 

 many miles round the town, and over extensive districts far 

 into the interior. 



The little town of Menado is one of the prettiest in the 

 East. It has the appearance of a large garden, containing 

 rows of rustic villas, with broad paths between, forming streets 

 generally at right angles with each other. Good roads branch 

 off in several directions toward the interior, with a succession 

 of pretty cottages, neat gardens, and thriving plantations, in- 

 terspersed with wildernesses of fruit-trees. To the west and 

 south the country is mountainous, with groups of fine volcanic 

 peaks 6000 or 7000 feet high, forming grand and picturesque 

 back-grounds to the landscape. 



The inhabitants of Minahasa (as this part of Celebes is 

 called) differ much from those of all the rest of the island, and in 



