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population alone that there can be any large and per- 

 manent increase in the produce of coffee. The Missionaries 

 should take up the question, because, by inducing married 

 women to confine themselves to domestic duties, they will 

 decidedly promote a higher civilization, and directly in- 

 crease the health and happiness of the whole community. 

 The people are so docile, and so willing to adopt the 

 manners and customs of Europeans, that the change might 

 be easily effected, by merely showing them that it was a 

 question of morality and civilization, and an essential 

 step in their progress towards an equality with their white 

 rulers. 



After a fortnight's stay at Eurukan, I left that pretty 

 and interesting village in search of a locality and climate 

 more productive of birds and insects. I passed the evening 

 with the Controlleur of Tondano, and the next morning at 

 nine, left in a small boat for the head of the lake, a dis- 

 tance of about ten miles. The lower end of the lake is 

 bordered by swamps and marshes of considerable extent, 

 but a little further on the hills come down to the water's 

 edge and give it very much the appearance of a great 

 river, the width being about two miles. At the upper end 

 is the village of Kakas, where I dined with the head man 

 in a good house like those I have already described ; and 

 then went on to Langowan, four miles distant over a level 

 plain. This was the place where I had been recommended 



