198 CELEBES. [chap. 



We spent three days at Wallace Bay, and obtained no less than 

 forty-two Maleos, of which we preserved a large series. We also 

 shot a rare Kingfisher (Ccycojjsis fallax) — an exqnisite little species, 

 the head spotted with bright blue and the back a brilliant ultra- 

 marine. The peculiar Baboon-like Monkey {Cynointhccus nigrcscens) 

 was very common in the ibrest, swinging from bough to bough at 

 the tops of the trees in small flocks. It is also found in the island 

 of Batchian, but it is supposed by Mr. Wallace to have been intro- 

 duced there by man, and to be really peculiar to Celebes, an island 

 wliicli is remarkably rich in isolated forms. Hitherto we had not 

 succeeded in meeting with the Anoa, and had only shot a single 

 specimen of the Babirusa, and hearing that Limbe, an island lying 

 close to the extreme eastern point of Celebes, abounded in these 

 latter animals, we determined on visiting it, first calling at Kenia, 

 a village on the mainland just beyond it, in order to pick up some 

 natives to help us in our expedition. 



We weighed anchor on the 14th of September, but encountered 

 such a strong head wind and sea on rounding the northern point 

 of Limbe Island that we decided on anchoring in the straits 

 formed between that island and the mainland — a narrow passage 

 about nine miles in lencjth. The northern entrance is rather 

 striking from the bare and desolate appearance of Verbrandte 

 Hoek, as the Dutch have called a small crater that has opened on 

 the eastern slope of an unnamed volcano at the north end of the 

 strait. It is a cone of ashes of regular shape, whence a small lava 

 stream has issued, carving its way through the forest to the sea. 

 That it is of quite recent date is evident, for the ashes and lava 

 are devoid of all vegetation save a few patches of coarse grass. 

 Visiting it a few days later we found that burnt trees were in many 

 instances still standing in the lava stream, so charred at the base 

 of the trunk that we could easily push them down. The cone, 

 which is entirely composed of loose ashes, is distant about a mile 

 and a half from the sea, and its summit has an altitude of rather 

 over 1600 feet. Beyond this desolate scene rise the Gunong 



