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pleasing semi-European features. The people of Siau and 

 Sanguir much resemble these, and I believe them to be per- 

 haps immigrants from some of the islands of North Polynesia. 

 The Papuan type will represent the remnant of the aborigines, 

 while those of the Bugis character show the extension north- 

 ward of the sujDerior Malay races. 



As I was wasting valuable time at Panghu, owing to the 

 bad weather and the illness of my hunters, I returned to 

 Menado after a stay of three weeks. Here I had a little touch 

 of fever, and what with drying and packing away my collec- 

 tions and getting fresh servants, it was a fortnight before I 

 was again ready to start. I now went eastward over an un- 

 dulating country skirting the great volcano of Klabat to a 

 village called Lempias, situated close to the extensive forest 

 that covers the lower slopes of that mountain. My baggage 

 was carried from village to village by relays of men ; and as 

 each change involved some delay, I did not reach my destina- 

 tion (a distance of eighteen miles) till sunset. I was wet 

 through, and had to wait for an hour in an uncomfortable 

 state till the first installment of my baggage arrived, which 

 luckily contained my clothes, while the rest did not come in 

 till midnight. 



This being the district inhabited by that singular animal 

 the Babirusa (hog-deer), I inquired about skulls, and soon 

 obtained several in tolerable condition, as well as a fine one 

 of the rare and curious "sapi-utan" (Anoa depressicornis). 

 Of this animal I had seen two living specimens at Menado, 

 and was surprised at their great resemblance to small cattle, 

 or still more to the eland of South Africa. Their Malay 

 name signifies "forest ox," and they differ from very small 

 high-bred oxen principally by the low-hanging dewlap, and 

 straight pointed horns which slope back over the neck. I did 

 not find the forest here so rich in insects as I had expected, 

 and my hunters got me very few birds, but what they did ob- 

 tain were very interesting. Among these were the rare forest 

 kingfisher (Cittura cyanotis), a small new species of Megapo- 

 dius, and one specimen of the large and interesting maleo 

 (Megacephalon rubripes), to obtain which was one of my 

 chief reasons for visiting this district. Getting no more, 

 however, after ten days' search, T removed to Licoupang, at 



