480 



Wa/ornè/è. 



/be, 



^o 700,0 00 / 



his companions were to leave the south-coast, to repair to the 

 district nrientioned above. In the mean time a division had arrived 

 there on the 26''^ September, that transported their head-quarters to 

 Nbai on the Tl^^ October. When van Schelle had been obliged to 

 leave the spot on account of ill-health, he was replaced by the 

 overseer A. ¥. H. Heusch and along the river Koli they marched 

 into the interior towards Mundé, but on this expedition likewise 

 only volcanic formations were found. ^) Increasing cases of illness 

 rendered a longer residence impossible, so that on the 23''^' of November 

 Nbai and on the 2"^^ of December Kemang had to be evacuated. ^) 



\\\ the mean time information about the occurrence of tin was 

 gathered from other sides. J. W. Meerburg on his march across 

 Manggarai in 1890 did not see anywhere an object made of tin; 

 only at Nanga Mborong he obtained a tin bracelet, which was said 

 to originate from Anduwa to the W. of Wai Moke, where, as was 

 said, the tin-ore was to be found. ^) In the beginning of 1891 the 

 controller J. B\ Hoedt was sent to the North-coast of Flores, in 



^) According to P. G. Schmidhamer Pore was the real finding-place of the tin 

 (p. 404) and not Puma, Mundé and Soa (p. 500). 



-) Koloniaal Verslag van 1891, p. 2G — 29. — J, W. Stoutjesduk. Een mede- 

 doeling over het eiland Flores. Tijdschr. K. Nederl. Aardr. Gen. (2) 8. 1891, p. 

 748—749, map N'\ IV. 



3) Dagboek van den controleur van Bima, J. W. Meerburg, gehouden gedurende 

 zijne reis door het binnenland van Manggarai. Tijdschr. v. Ind. T. L. en Vk. 36. 

 Batavia 1893, p. 143, 148. 



