202 TRAVELS IN THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



em eiid of tlie island from tlie eastward. The west- 

 ern thii'd is again divided into two unequal peninsulas 

 by tlie bay of Tanuno. The westernmost is called 

 Howamowel, or " Little Ceram," and is connected with 

 the middle peninsula, Kaibobo, by an isthmus less 

 than a mile broad. Kaibobo is again connected with 

 the eastern two-thu'ds of the island by an isthmus 

 about three miles broad. The whole island is really 

 but one great mountain-chain, which sends off many 

 transverse ranges and spurs, and the only low land it 

 contains is east of the bay of Amahai, along its south- 

 ern shore. In the western peninsula the mountains 

 do not have any considerable height, but in the 

 middle one some peaks attain an elevation of five 

 thousand or six thousand feet, and in the middle 

 part of the eastern peninsula Mount Nusaheli is sup- 

 posed to rise more than three thousand metres (nine 

 thousand eight hundred and forty-two English feet) 

 above the sea. Over all these elevations stretches one 

 continuous and unbroken forest. So great a part of 

 the whole island is unknown that various and mdely- 

 different estimates of its population have been made.* 

 Some of its peaks now became visible through the 

 mist, and soon we were in Elpaputi Bay, and, chang- 

 ing our coui'se toward the east, entered a small inlet 

 called the bay of Amahai. At the head of this bay 

 is the small village of the same name, containing a 

 population of thirteen hundred souls. The contro- 



* In 1854 the western part that is included in the residency of Hila 

 was supposed to contain a population of two thousand four hundred and 

 sixty-eight; the middle peninsula and the bay visited on this voyage, 

 twenty-four thousand one hundred and ninety-four ; the noi'thern coast 



