CH. IX JOVBNEY THBOUGH MINAHA8SA 207 



rainbow. The cloth-sellers exhibit their sheetings from 

 Manchester, and the red and blue kains printed -with won- 

 derful and grotesque patterns for the sarongs and tjelanas 

 for the fashionable natives. 



But besides those who are occupied with the business 

 of the market, there may always be seen a number of 

 loafers who have been attracted simply by idle curiosity or 

 a desire to indulge in a mild dissipation. These may be 

 found standing or squatting in little groups playing at top 

 or drinking sagoweer, the native wine of the country, from 

 the long bamboo vessels of the sagoweer sellers. Then 

 there are the Chinese pedlars with their long pigtails, the 

 Arab traders with their gorgeous turbans, an occasional 

 European in his white duck suit and straw hat, and a 

 crowd of car-drivers, country folk, servants, soldiers, and 

 pohcemen. Stretchiug from the market-place up towards 

 the district of Klabat bawah is the Chinese quarter, and 

 at the head of it is the little Chiuese temple where dwells 

 the Tapi-kong. 



The dwellings of the principal Europeans are, as I men- 

 tioned above, situated in the centre of Aris in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the chmrch and residency. They are well 

 built and roomy timber houses, each surrounded by a little 

 compound or garden, which is often prettily laid out with 

 roses, hibiscus shrubs, crotons, and other foliage plants, 

 whilst palms and other lofty trees afford a welcome and 

 pleasing shade from the fierce rays of the mid-day sun. 



The population of Manado consists of a very small 

 percentage of white Europeans, a number of half-castes 

 who are also called Europeans, Chinese, Arabs, Christian 

 and a few Mahomedan natives, and the Bantiks, a race 

 of Alfurs who still retain their old rehgion. Most of the 

 Mahomedans- and the Bantiks live on the right bank of the 

 river in the districts Manado and Bantik. 



