236 DIVERS NATIONS. [1697. 



I shall add to the figure of this Ape that of a small Lizard 

 in the Isle of Gilolo} which one of my Friends drew according 

 to the natural Bigness, and presented to me. This pretty 

 little Animal has the Bill and Feet of a Bird : Its Head is 

 of a lightish green, its Back of a brownish red, and its Belly 

 Limon -colour spotted with Violet-blue. Its Tail has marks 

 like Rings round it : It is a lively Creature, and very swift : 

 It catches and greedily devours Flies. This is the Account 

 that has been given me of this Animal. 



Batavia, including the City and Suburbs, is inhabited by 

 divers Nations, viz., Dutch, French, Germans, Portitguescs, 

 Javans, Chincses, and Moors. The Languages most in use 

 are Dutch, Malay, Portuguese, and Chinese.^ 



one species of animal and that which is next to it, and struck with the 

 near resemblance of this creature to the human kind, both in form and 

 sagacity, have accounted for its production in the following manner : 

 that the cruelty of the Dutch to their Malayan female slaves often 

 obliged them to fly into the woods to escape the cruelty of their tyran- 

 nical masters ; and being forced to live there solitarily, it was thought 

 that they might by length of time turn mad or insensibly brutish, and 

 might have yielded to an unnatural commerce with some animals in the 

 woods, by which this strange animal was produced.'' {A Voyage to the 

 East Indies in 1747-48, p. 62. London, 1752.) 



1 " Gillolo Island, partly tributaiy to Ternate and partly to Tidore, is 

 of considerable extent and well inhabited. Oxen, buffaloes, goats, deer, 

 and wild hogs abound in this island, but sheep are very few. The 

 sago and bread-fruit trees flourish here in great abundance. Ossa town, 

 situated on the south side of the great bay of that name, in lat. 0° 45' N., 

 long. 128° 22' E., affords every convenience for ships touching here, 

 either for water, provisions, timber for spars, or other necessary articles. 

 There are several villages in this bay, but that of Golonasy was destroyed 

 by the Dutch, on the 25th January, 1808." (Thorn, I. c, 348.) 



The lizard described by Leguat is probably intended for the Tacliy- 

 dromus sexUneatus, not solely confined to this island, but found through- 

 out the neighbouring Archipelago, Malaya, and China, 



2 "The population of Batavia", according to Major Thorn, in 1811, 

 " is divided into the following classes. Next to the Dutch burghers, 

 come the Portuguese or half-castes, and other Indian Christians ; next 

 to them are the Papangars or Mardykears, who are emancipated slaves ; 

 the Moors and Arabs. The other classes are distinguished into the 



