FROM KEMA TO MENADO. 



While they were telling me these stories I thought 

 of the danger to which I must often have been uncon- 

 sciously exposed while wandering mile after mile 

 through the jungles on Burn, never suspecting that, 

 before I left the archipelago, I myself should be 

 forced into a deadful combat with one of these mon- 

 sters, and in such a place that one or the other must 

 die on the spot. 



The next day we returned to Kema, and I began 

 my journey over the peninsula to Menado, and thence 

 up to the plateau in the interior. 



December 2Q>t]i. — At 9 a. m. started on horseback, 

 the only mode of travelling in the Minahassa, for Mena- 

 do, the largest village in this peninsula of Celebes, and 

 the place where the Resident of this region is located. 

 I went there first, in order to see the Resident and 

 obtain letters to the officials of the interior. The 

 distance from Kema to Menado is about twenty miles. 

 The road is made only for carts, but nearly all the 

 way it is lined with shade-trees, and in several places, 

 for long distances, they meet overhead so as to fonn 

 a continuous covered way, thus affording to those 

 ^\'ho travel to and fro an admirable shelter from the 

 hot sunshine and heavy showers. Among these trees 

 were many crows, Corvus enhci^ not shy as they always 

 are in our country, but so tame that I frequently rode 

 \vithin ten yards of where they were sitting without 

 causing them to move. Numbers of a bright-yellow 

 bird, about as large as oui* robin, Avere seen among 

 the branches, and on the ground another somewhat 

 larger than a blackbird, Dkrurus^ with a long, lyre- 

 shaped tail, and a plumage of shining blue-black. 



