CHAPTER XVI. 



CELEBES. 

 (MACASSAR. JULY TO NOVEMBER, 1857.) 



f REACHED Macassar again on the 11th of July, and 

 established myself in my old quarters at Mamajam, to 

 sort, arrange, clean, and pack up my Aru collections. This 

 occupied me a month ; and having shipped them off for 

 Singapore, had my guns repaired, and received a new one 

 from England, together with a stock of pins, arsenic, and 

 other collecting requisites, I began to feel eager for work 

 again, and had to consider where I should spend my time 

 till the end of the year. I had left Macassar, seven 

 months before, a flooded marsh being ploughed up for the 

 rice-sowing. The rains had continued for five months, yet 

 now all the rice was cut, and dry and dusty stubbles 

 covered the country just as when I had first arrived there. 

 After much inquiry I determined to visit the district of 

 Maros, about thirty miles north of Macassar, where Mr. 

 Jacob Mesman, a brother of my friend, resided, who had 

 kindly offered to find me house-room and give me assist- 

 ance should I feel inclined to visit him. I accordingly 



