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liis staff, a gentlemau who liad previously been gov- 

 ernor of the Moluccas, came to tliis place while the 

 others were resting at Tondano, and committed sui- 

 cide by j)lunging headlong into the deep canal above 

 the high fall. Only a short time before, he had dined 

 with the whole company and seemed very cheerful, 

 but here, probably in a moment of unusual despon- 

 dency, he made the fatal leap. 



Continuing in the way that followed this crooked 

 stream, I occasionally beheld the high top of Mount 

 Klabat before me. Several large butterflies flitted 

 to and fro, their rich, velvety blue and green colors 

 seemins; almost too bri^'ht to be real. At the eisrhth 

 paal we came to the native village Sawangan, and the 

 chief showed me the burial-place of his people pre- 

 vious to the arrival of Europeans. Most of the 

 monuments consist of three separate stones placed 

 one on another. The lowest is square or oblong, and 

 partly buried in the earth. Its upper surface has 

 been squared off that the second might rest on it 

 more firmly. This is a rectangular-parallelopipedon, 

 one or two feet wide and two-thirds as thick, and 

 from two to three feet high. It is placed on end on 

 the first stone. In its upper end a deep hole has 

 been made, and in this the body of tlie deceased is 

 ])lace(I. It w^as covered by the thii'd stone of a tri- 

 angular form when viewed at the end, and made to 

 represent that part of a house abo\e the eaves. It 

 projects a little beyond the perpendicuhir stone be- 

 neath it. On tlie sides of the roof rude fisfures of 

 men, women, and children were carved, all with the 

 knees drawn up against tlie chin and clasped by the 



