286 ADAMS. 
Bonney * is the only author I have found who appears to dis- 
credit the accuracy of the statement reported by Scrope. He 
gives no references, but says: 
The Java line is continued * * * to Timor, in which the existence of 
volcanoes has been doubted; there must, however, be a very few for one in 
the western part of the island is said to have been in eruption in 1856 and 
in the following year; there are also some mud volcanoes, but nothing calling 
for special mention. 
Finally, in Schneider’s catalogue of volcanoes,® Floen Bano is 
given as the name of the voleano of Timor, its latitude and lon- 
gitude are stated, the dates of eruption are noted as 1638, 1856, 
and 1857, and its location is shown on a map as being in the 
eastern part of the island, although Mercalli has stated that 
Floen Bano is in the western part. 
The writings of Perrey to which Mercalli refers may be either 
“Notes on Earthquakes” ° or two special articles which he wrote; 
the first’ proving to the author’s satisfaction that there is cer- 
tainly one volcano on Timor and the second * showing that there 
may be another. 
It seems reasonable to conclude, however, that Perrey was led 
into error through a lack of knowledge of the local geography 
and geology and by assuming that the incidental mention of 
“volcanoes,” in an untechnical report by the governor of Portu- 
guese Timor describing earthquakes, was sufficient proof of the 
existence of volcanic phenomena. For example: the 36 people 
reported killed in 1857 were on Pulo-Camby which is a small 
island north of Timor. Perhaps the fact was overlooked that 
Pulo means island, and, failing to note this, the fatalities were 
thought to have been in Timor. 
The statement, “The volcano of Bibiluto erupted with extra- 
ordinary violence and destroyed a part of the village of the 
(native) kingdom of Viqueque”’ may be interpreted as a report 
of two results of the seismic disturbance which were confused 
into a local cause and effect. I believe that the “mud volcano” 
“Bonney, T. G., Volcanoes, their structure and significance (1899). 
° Schneider, Karl, Die Vulkanischen Erscheinungen der Erde (1911). 
* Perrey, Alexis, Note sur les Tremblements de Terre en 1857, avec supplé- 
ments pour les années antérieures (see pp. 84 and 90). Extrait de Tome X 
des Mémoires couronnées et autres Mémoires in 8°, Académie royale de 
Belgique. 
*Perrey, Alexis, Sur le Bibiluto, Volean de l’ile de Timor, Nouvelles 
Annales des Voyages, August (1858), 129. 
* Perrey, Alexis, Deuxiéme note sur les phénoménes seismiques 4 Timor, 
ibid., Décembre (1858), 308. 
