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through the net. The drive was ended hj the successful "curralling" 

 of a second pig, and in half an hour's time the beaters arrived. 

 They had speared a wild boar and a yovmg pig en route, but the 

 breadth of the island had allowed a considerable quantity of game 

 to break back. Counting our bag we found that we had one boar 

 and two sow Babirusa, and a wild boar and three pigs, which, 

 added to the game our natives had speared on the preceding day, 

 made a total of ten head, six of which were wild pigs and four 

 Babirusa.^ 



We returned to Kema on the following day, and having paid oft" 

 our hunters, again weighed anchor, with the intention of proceeding 

 up the Gulf of Tomini or Gorontalo to the village of the latter 

 name, which is situated on its northern shore. When off Cape 

 Flesko, however, we encountered a strong current setting out of 

 the gulf, which, combined with a stiff south-westerly breeze, 

 decided us to run in towards the coast. Closing the land in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the cape, we made out the entrance of 

 two bays, unmarked in the charts, which seemed likely to afford 

 such good shelter that we resolved to explore farther. We steamed 

 slowly ahead, the lifeboat preceding us to take soundings, and 

 passing between the mainland and some islands, steered north for 



^ The large male Babirusa we killed was a dirty fleshy grey in colour ; the whole 

 body devoid of hair, excepting at the very tip of the tail, where there were twenty 

 or thirty stiff' bristles about two inches in length. The surface of the body was 

 covered — thickly on the back, but scantily elsewhere — with very fine yellowish down, 

 about an eighth of an inch in length, which was peculiarly soft and velvety to the 

 touch. The measurements (in inches) of this animal and a full-grown female were 

 as follows : — 



Tip of snout to eye . 



Eye to meatus of ear 



Tip of snout to root of tail 



Length of tail 



Girth at shoulder 



Height at shoulder . 



Lower tusk . 



Upper tusk . 



Weight 



