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lives. Nortli of the Sangir islands are the Talaiit 

 group. These are the most northern islands under 

 the Dutch, and the boundary of their possessions in 

 this part of the archipelago. 



1 The steamer Menado, on which I had previously 

 taken passage from Bata^'ia all the way to Amboina, 

 now arrived at Kema. She had brought my collec- 

 tion from Amboina, Burn, and Ternate, and I was 

 ready to return to Java, for some months had passed 

 since I accomplished the object of my journey to the 

 Spice Islands, and during that time I had travelled 

 many hundred miles and had reached several regions 

 which I had not dared to expect to see, even when I 

 left Bata^'ia. A whale-ship from New Bedford was 

 also in the road, and when I visited her and heard 

 every one, even the cabin-boy, speaking English, it 

 seemed almost as strange as it did to hear nothing 

 but Malay and Dutch when I first arrived in Java. 

 Many whales are usually found east of the Sangir 

 Islands, and north of Gilolo and New Guinea. 



January lOtli. — At noon steamed out of the bay 

 of Kema and down the eastern coast of Celebes for 

 Macassar. "VSHien the sun was setting, we were just 

 off Tanjong Fiasco, which forms the northern limit 

 of the bay of Gorontalo or Tomini. As the sun 

 sank behind the end of this high promontory, its 

 jagged outline received a broad margin of gold. 

 Bands of strati stretched across the sky from north 

 to south and successively changed from gold to a 

 bright crimson, and then to a deep, dark red as the 

 sunlight fiided. All this bright coloring of the sky 

 w as repeated in the sea, and the air Ijetween them 



