130 BUQIS WOMEN OF CELEBES. [1844 



the head ; their forms are good, and voluptuous, though 

 rather inclined to embonpoint, and some wear their hair 

 long and flowing down the back. Among the female 

 population are many half-castes, who are generally much 

 better looking than their neighbours, and become the 

 wives of Dutch merchants, or opulent Malay gentlemen. 

 These carry then* heads very high, and have numerous 

 slaves under them, and I was sorry to observe that these 

 female tyrants are commonly unjust and cruel in the ex- 

 treme, visiting with their sore displeasure many of their 

 defenceless female dependants, more particularly the 

 younger and better-favoured among them, and should 

 their suspicious jealousy once detect their husband's eye 

 to linger upon the form of one, rather than that of 

 another, the demon of revenge takes possession of their 

 breasts, and unheard of brutality is sure to assail their 

 victim. One lady I was introduced to has actually been 

 known to have seized upon a poor suspected girl, 

 dragged her to an obscure wood, and there having 

 entirely stripped her naked, to have smeared her whole 

 body with honey, and left her thus exposed bound to 

 a tree, the prey of the wasps, and flies, and myriad ants, 

 that would immediately be attracted to the spot." 



Manado furnishes moderate supplies of Beef, Hogs, 

 Poultry, Vegetables, Fruit, &c. Excellent water may be 

 obtained at the river, but, if time permit, the boats should 

 go well up the stream beyond the first fork, where it is 

 much purer ; the greatest inconvenience arises from the 

 full boats being unable to get over the reef which bars 

 the river at low water, and therefore can only obtain the 

 turns between first quarter flood and the last half ebb. 



