CHAP. XXII.] THE ALFUROS OR INDIGENES. 19 



regions, a very desert for the entomologist. The virgin 

 forest that 1 was in search of, existed only on the summits 

 and on the steep rocky sides of the motmtains a long way 

 off, and in inaccessible situations. In the suburbs of the 

 village I found a fair number of bees and wasps, and some 

 small but interesting beetles. Two or three new birds 

 were obtained by my hunters, and by incessant inquiries 

 and promises I succeeded in getting the natives to bring 

 me some land shells, among which was a very fine and 

 handsome one. Helix pyrostoma. I was, however, com- 

 pletely wasting my time here compared with what I might 

 be doing in a good locality, and after a week returned to 

 Ternate, quite disappointed with my first attempts at col- 

 lecting in GHolo. 



In the country round about Sahoe, and in the interior, 

 there is a large population of indigenes, numbers of whom 

 came daily into the village, bringing their produce for sale, 

 whUe others were engaged as labourers by the Chinese 

 and Ternate traders. A careful examination convinced me 

 that these people are radically distinct from all the Malay 

 races. Their stature and their features, as well as their 

 disposition and habits, are almost the same as those of the 

 Papuans ; their hair is semi-Papuan— neither straight, 

 smooth, and glossy, like all true Malays', nor so frizzly and 

 woolly as the perfect Papuan type, but always crisp, 

 waved, and rough, such as often occurs among the true 



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