CHAPTER IX. 



CELEBES {continued). 



Tardus spectrum — Talisse Island — Extensile bill of C«r^q2;7irt(/a— Likoupang — Maim 

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

 rattan — Characteristics of the sea-beach — The Babirusa — The Sapi-utan — A 

 dance 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 kcdclah 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 — Pogoyama — Existence of gold — Singular burial-pit — Zoo- 

 logical peculiarities of Celebes — We leave for the Moluccas. 



Our collection of live birds and animals, which, at a later period 

 of onr cruise, almost turned the Marchcsa into a floating Zoological 

 Gardens, made its first real commencement in Northern Celebes. 

 Here, in addition to the Cuscus — of which we had two or three 

 specimens — and the Anoa, we became the possessors of several 

 Fruit-eating Pigeons {Carpopliarja), to which I shall presently 

 allude, and four of the beautiful Calocnas, a ground-loving pigeon 

 we afterwards obtained in the Moluccas, which from its long and 

 pointed neck-hackles has at a first glance almost the appearance 

 of a gallinaceous bird. But the most interesting addition to 

 our menagerie was a tiny Lemuroid animal (Tarsius spectrum) 

 brought to us by a native, by whom it was said to have been 

 caught upon the mainland. These little creatures, which are 

 arboreal and of nocturnal habits, are about the size of a small rat, 

 and are covered with remarkably thick woolly fur, which is very 



