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with shots, and now proceeded to the Resident's house, which some years 

 since was left without mihtary protection. 



" The Resident, Mr. van Musschenbroek, was not at home, but in the 

 Government Office. About thirty men entered the house, and destroyed 

 everything in their way. The doors, hastily closed, did not keep them back 

 a long time ; and no doubt they would have killed Mrs. van Musschenbroek 

 and her children, had not this lady contrived to keep them a short while 

 aloof by her calmness and firmness. Soon fourteen soldiers from the fort 

 arrived. The band now turned against these, but were driven back and took 

 to their heels to reach the prauws, two of which had been taken in the 

 meanwhile by a Dutch captain. Now the -inhabitants of Menado began to 

 pursue the rebels, and also captured the last prauw. Twenty of the forty- 

 eight men were killed, and all the others made prisoners. 



" The trial of the survivors proved that the whole band belonged to 

 Bool, in the south of the Minahassa, nearer to Gorontalo, and that they 

 intended to kill the Resident — not Mr. van Musschenbroek, who then had 

 not yet been a long time in Menado, but his predecessor, Mr. van der Crab. 

 They said that a larger force was en route ; and the Government of Menado 

 therefore did every thing to protect itself and the country. But nothing 

 happened ; and later Mr. van Musschenbroek visited Bool, to punish the 

 natives there, and then to make friends with them." 



The above little account, from a Java paper, shows that even a place like 

 Menado has its dangers ; and what with earthquakes, storms, snakes, fevers, 

 and sickness of all kinds, the life of a naturalist is not without great risk in 

 those regions. 



The Plate is taken from a fine male in my own collection, and is of the 

 size of life. 



