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Kling. The language prevailing is quite distinct from any in 

 Minahasa. 



The people of the ^dllage of Liatto, a short distance eastwards 

 of the mouth of the Gorontalo, are Mohammedans, as indeed are 

 all the natives in this district who are not Pagans, and, in con- 

 sequence, we found wild boars abundant and unmolested in their 

 plantations, and were able to shoot several of them. Here and in 

 Gorontalo small-pox was very prevalent, and at one village of no 

 sreat size the chief told us that there were over a hundred cases. 

 The Dutch have not introduced vaccination here as they have in 

 Minahasa, and the disease was consequently very fatal. In 

 Gorontalo itself, where the population is more mixed, and includes 

 Bugis, Klings, and other races, in addition to over a hundred 

 Chinese, the death-rate was not nearly so high. 



Thanks to the kindness of one of our German friends, we made 

 an addition to tlie Marchesas menagerie in the shape of another 

 Sapi-utan. It was a young bull only a few months old, and 

 scarcely more than twenty-four inches high, its body covered with 

 a light yellowish-brown woolly hair, and the horns three inches in 

 length. It remained with us until we reached Ternate, when we 

 despatched it to England, but, like the other we had obtained at 

 Menado, it unfortunately did not live to reach its destination. 



The Kontroleur of Gorontalo was anxious to visit Pogoyama, 

 a village lying at the mouth of a river five and twenty miles farther 

 up the gulf, his principal object being to secure a man who had 

 recently committed a murder, or at least to put such pressure upon 

 the chiefs as would ensure his being eventually delivered up to 

 justice. We therefore arranged to proceed to the place in the 

 yacht, and the party — which consisted of the Kontroleur and half 

 a dozen coloured police — having been got aboard at an early hour, 

 we sailed before daybreak for our destination. Native authority 

 also was to be represented, and we carried the son of the late 

 Sultan of Gorontalo and his attendants — a title, by the way, which 

 has been abolished by the Dutch. We arrived off the entrance of 



