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obtained from a few small wells near the beach ; and as 

 the people live high up on the hills, they rarely, if ever, 

 use water for any purpose but for drinking. They are 

 brown Papuans with frizzly hair, and are pagans, but 

 from much association with the Bugis and Goram traders 

 have obtained some small tincture of ]\Iohammedanism. 



Tior, the Nusa-tello, and Tionfoloka islands complete 

 the chain between Ceram and the Ke group. They 

 appear to be inhabited by a mixed race chieily Papuan 

 in character. 



13. The K6 Islands. 



This small but compact little archipelago lies between 

 5° and 6° S. Lat., and consists of three chief islands — 

 IsTuhu Ju-ud or Great Ke, Nuhu Eoa or Little K^, and 

 X.6 Dulan. They came formally iuto the possession of 

 Holland as far back as 1665; but so little were they 

 explored up till 1886, when they were surveyed by Cap- 

 tain Langen, that not only their outhne, but even their 

 number, was unknown. Their entire surface is covered 

 with the densest jungle, and they are tolerably thickly 

 peopled as compared with many islands in these seas. 

 Though there are no active volcanoes, old craters have 

 been found both on Ke Dulan and Ju-ud, and severe 

 earthquakes have occurred. The islands differ consider- 

 ably. Ju-ud or Great K^ is long, narrow, and elevated ; 

 in shape like a club or bludgeon, its head lying to the 

 north. Although 64 miles in length, its average breadth 

 is not more than from 1 to 3 miles. It is said to be 

 composed of sandstones and granites, but its northern 

 peaks — the highest of which is 2200 feet — are probably 

 volcanic. A long and narrow channel, apparently of 

 deep water, separates this island from the others, which 



