CHAPTER X. 



THE ISrORTHERISr PET^INSULA OF CELEBES. 



On the morning of tlie 13th of December Mount 

 Klabat, a conical volcanic mountain attaining an ele- 

 vation of six thousand five hundred feet, appeared on 

 the horizon ; and soon after, north of Klabat, was 

 seen Mount Sudara, " The Sisters," a tmn cone whose 

 highest peak is about four thousand four hundred feet 

 above the sea. North of this again is Batu angus, 

 two thousand three hundred feet in heio;ht. Its name 

 in Malay means " the hot rock," l)ut it is really a large 

 volcano, whose top has been blo^vn oif and a great 

 crater thus formed ; and this shows the fearful fate 

 that awaits each of the other two cones, as soon as 

 the gases pent up beneath their mighty masses have 

 acquired the necessary power. We now approached 

 Limbi, a high, uninhabited island with abrupt shores 

 extending in a northwest and southeast direction, and 

 soon after came to anchor in the road off Kema, the 

 coast here curving inward so as to form a small bay. 

 This is the port used now in the western monsoon. 

 During the eastern monsoon, steamers and ships go 

 round the northern end of Celebes to Menado, in 

 the Strait of Macassar. Kema is a village of two 

 thousand inhabitants. Its streets are very broad, 



