CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEK IX. 



CELEBES (continued). 



Tarsius spectrum — Talisse Island — Extensile bill of Carjmphaga — Likoupang — Waim 

 Bay — Forest scenes — Hornbills — The Livistonia palm — Useful property of the 

 rattan — Characteristics of the sea-beach — The Babinisa — The Sapi-utan — ^'A 

 (lance at Likoupang — Wallace Bay — The Celebean Mound-builder — Description 

 of the breeding-grounds — Theory as to the enormous size of the egg — Limbe 

 Strait and Island — Dangerous anchorage — Kema — Babirusa toWa/^ on Limbe 

 Island — Boat accident — Result of the hunt — Leave Kema for Gorontalo — 

 Kettlewell Bay — Gorontalo — The Limboto Lake — News of the Krakatau erup- 

 tion — Smallpox — Pogoyania — Existence of gold — Singular burial-pit — Zoo- 

 logical peculiarities of Celebes — We leave for the Moluccas . Page 183 



CHAPTEE X. 



THE MOLUCCAS. 



Teniate — The town — The Resident's aviary- — Live Birds of Paradise — History of 

 the island — Remains of the old forts — Climate — Moluccan birds — The trade in 

 Paradise Birds — We enlist our hunters — Arrival of the monthly mail — Leave 

 for Batchian — Passage of the Herberg Strait — The " Kapten Laut " — Obi 

 Major — Tanysiptera obiensis — Birds of the Obi group — Ruins on the deserted 

 island — We explore the west coast — Obi Latu Island — Dead mangrove swamp 

 — Bisa Island — Return to Batchian — Dance given by the Sultan of Batchian — 

 Fort Barneveld — Wallace's Bird of Paradise — A deer hunt — Sago -making — 

 Visit to the "Weda Islands- -Sail for New Guinea . . . Page 216 



CHAPTEE XL 



NEW GUIXEA. 



Division of New Guinea — The Rajah amixd — Land on Salwatti — An anxious night 

 — Our first Bird of Paradise — Batanta Island — The natives — Discover Marchesa 

 Bay — Obtain Wilson's Bird of Paradise — The Batanta Papuans — Momos, 

 Waigiou Island — Ascend the "Waigiou Gulf — Pigeons and parrots — Alfuros of 

 Waigiou — The Red Bird of Paradise — Night in the forest — Scenery of the Gulf 

 — Rambles round Momos — A regal trader — Napriboi — Zoological characteristics 

 of Batanta and Waigiou — Sail for Geelvink Bay . . . Page 248 



