CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER II. 



AT LAKE WOKOLO. 



PACE 



The Lake — The people there — Garments — Cultivation — Arms and 

 accoutrements — Marriage — Death rites — Superstitions about the lake 

 — Explanation of its position and of the absence of fish in it — New 

 birds— Great disappointment — Eetum to Kajeli — Thence to Amboina 

 — Compelled to leave the Moluccas — A kind farewell — Leave for 

 Timor 401 



Appendix to Pakt V. .. .. .. .. •• .. •• 409 



PAET VI. 

 IN TIM OB. 



CHAPTER I. 



SOJOUEN AT FATUNABA. 



Arrival at Dilly— Dreadful effects of fever — Search for a site for a house 

 — The town of Dilly an ethnographical studio^Fatunaba — Our 

 residence — The enchanting view thence — Interesting birds and plants 

 — Difficulty with servants — Preparations for departm-e into the in- 

 terior — Dialects .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 415 



CHAPTER IL 



ON THE KOAD TO BIBlgugU, 



Start for the interior— Vegetation on the way — Roads — Camp on Erlura 

 — ^Mt. Tehula — Kelehoko and its flora — Pass a night linder the eaves 

 of a native dwelling— Huts in trees — Bed of the River Komai — Pass 

 a night on Ligidoik mountain — Character of country — Valley of the 

 Waimatang Kaimauk — Singular scene — Unhuried relatives — Burial 

 rites — Grave-sticks — Rites attending a king's death — Swangies — 

 Lose our way — Flora on Turskain mountain — Rajah of Turskain's — 

 Botanical excursions — The rites of the sacred Luli and the choosing 

 of warriors — ^The Rajah .. .. .. .. .. .. 427 



CHAPTER IIL 



IN THE KINGDOM OF BIBKJtTgU. 



Leave for Bibi?ufu— Bridles — A trio of Braves — War and its attendant 

 ceremonies — Rahomali — Luli ground — Bibi9U9u — Harvest fields — • 

 Cultivation — Take the law into my own hands — Connubial rela- 

 tions — Waterfall — Birds— Herbarium — Disquieting news — Mount 

 Kabi^liiki — Move forwArd to Saluki — Native market — ^Description of 



