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Kakas, we were received and hospitably entertained by Mr. 

 Yeen, Jun., who kindly helped me to engage a carriage to 

 convey me to my destination, Kelelonde. I have so often 

 spoken of the genial and hospitable character of the Dutch- 

 men in the Indies that it is hardly necessary to add that Mr. 

 Yeen's kindness and hospitaUty to me was not exceptional. 



The road from Kakas to Langowan might be called 

 uninteresting were it not for the fact that it presented 

 a remarkably different type of country to any I had yet 

 traversed in Minahassa. 



The road is broad, level, and straight. On either side of 

 it there are vast fields of corn and plains of wild grass. 

 There are but few patches of forest land, and those that 

 remain are rapidly being cleared for plantations of coffee. 

 Of the familiar palms the traveller notices that the sagoweer 

 palm grows well and in abundance, but the coco-nut is 

 scarce, and the few specimens there are seem weak and 

 slender compared with those of the warmer regions of the 

 coast. Birds, as might be expected, are there in thousands. 

 Turtle-doves and pigeons, crows and scissor-taUed birds, 

 thousands of little rice-birds, and many other kinds may be 

 seen on every side. It was without exception the richest 

 district for birds I had hitherto been in. 



As a naturalist and sportsman I was eager to examine 

 the avi-fauna with greater care than was possible when 

 driving along the road in a little gig, but it was necessary 

 to reach my destination before sunset, and I was conse- 

 quently obUged to press on. Even if I had been able to 

 study birds in this region, it is more than probable that I 

 should not have found a single new form, for a former Eesi- 

 dent of Manado, the late S. C. Yan Musschenbroek, made 

 such a sweeping investigation of the ornithology of Mina- 

 hassa that but little more remains to be done. 



Langowan is a pretty little village, and like all the other 



