356 A NATUBALIST IN CELEBES ch. xrr 



The venduties in Manado were always looked for- 

 ward to with interest by the inhabitants. The 'friend' 

 who officiated was expected to provide the company with 

 jokes and playful exaggerations of the value of the goods 

 to be sold ; the people laughed and talked over the pijtjes 

 and cigars, and frequently amused themselves by running 

 a trifling article up to a fancy price. 



When the vendutie was over and the mail steamer 

 ' Japara,' which was to take me back to Batavia, was in 

 sight, I paid my final visits to my friends in Manado. 



Sorry as I was to leave Manado and all the kind 

 friends I had made there, I was filled with excitement in 

 anticipation of the many wonderful and beautiful places 

 I was to see in the month's cruise round the Moluccas to 

 Batavia. I may perhaps be allowed to say that my 

 anticipations were fully realised. The wild forest of 

 Gilolo, the fire-mountains of Ternate ajad Motir, the 

 glorious harbour of Amboyna, the milky seas of Banda, 

 Timor, Bali, one of the last remaining homes of Buddhism 

 in the archipelago, and my old friend Makassar, were all 

 beautiful and interesting. I could almost fill another 

 volume with my notes and letters from these enchantiag 

 spots ; but my impressions there, I fear, were only those 

 of an inexperienced globe-trotter, and are hardly worth 

 recording. 



I was pleased to find among the passengers Mr. 

 Graafland and his family, who were leaving Celebes for 

 Amboyna. Dominie Graafland is perhaps better known in 

 Europe for the valuable works he has published on the 

 ethnology of the Alfurs of Minahassa than any of the 

 band of noble and intelligent missionaries who have 

 worked in that favoured land. Having laboured in the 

 country for some six-and-thirty years, he is a master of 

 some of the native dialects. His works are characterised 



