CHAPTER XVII. 



CELEBES. 



(MENADO. JUNE TO SEPTEMBER, 1859.) 



TT was after my residence at Timcr-Coupang that I 

 visited the north-eastern extremity of Celebes, touching 

 on my way at Banda, Amboyna, and Ternate. I reached 

 Menado on the 10th of June, 1859, and was very kindly ( 

 received by Mr. Tower, an Englishman, but a very old 

 resident in Menado, where he carries on a general business. 

 He introduced me to Mr. L. Duivenboden (whose father 

 had been my friend at Ternate), who had much taste for 

 natural history ; and to Mr. Neys, a native of Menado, 

 but who was educated at Calcutta, and to whom Dutch, 

 English, and Malay were equally mother-tongues. All 

 these gentlemen showed me the greatest kindness, accom- 

 panied me in my earliest walks about the country, and 

 assisted me by every means in their power. I spent a 

 week in the town very pleasantly, making explorations 

 and inquiries after a good collecting station, which I had 

 much difficulty in finding, owing to the wide cultivation 



