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two children, yet they often bear eight or ten. The " Major " of 

 Tomohon, for example, was the last of a family of thirteen. Our 

 friend ]\Ir. Van de Ven, the Kontroleur, ascribed tliis large mfant 



FKCIT A^'D FLOWER OF THE COFFEE-TREE. 



mortality to a form of malarial fever which is said to be not un- 

 common in the low land in the neighbourhood of the lake, but it did 

 not seem to me that this accounted for it satisfactorily. In Mr. 

 Wallace's time the death-rate appears to have been equally high. 



