JOUBNEY THBOUGH MINAEASSA 205 



CHAPTEE IX 



JOTJENEY THBOUGH MINAHASSA 



Minahassa— The capital Manado— Heerendienst— Manado as a port— Ex- 

 ports — Start for the interior — Tondano— Condition of affairs a century 

 ago— Ballottos— The Great Lake— ^ij/a WyckU—Kaka.s andLangowan— 

 Arrival at Kelelonde— The coffee garden— Mapalus— The Tompusu pass 

 — The forests of Minahassa. 



Afteb my return from the Sangir islands I remained on 

 Talisse island and continued my work in the forests and 

 on the reefs, but in the beginning of January I was obliged 

 to leave for Manado on account of an illness I contracted 

 at the commencement of the rains, which required not only 

 proper medical advice, but also better fare than I was able 

 to obtain in my little island home. I will not weary the 

 reader with an account of my long and tedious con- 

 valescence ; suffice it to say that I returned twice to Talisse, 

 once with the vain hope of being able to continue my work 

 and a second time to pack up what remained of my col- 

 lections. From January 1886 until September, when I 

 finally left Celebes for my journey home, I lived either in 

 Manado itself or in the mountains, and it is my purpose in 

 the concluding chapters of this book to give a brief summary 

 of my travels and some account of the present condition of 

 Minahassa, together with a description of some of the 

 customs, legends, and fables of the inhabitants, both in the 

 past and present time. 



The word Minahassa means a country that has been 

 formed by the binding together of a number of territories 

 into one. The principal word in it is derived from ' asa,' 



