CHAPTER XXII 



CELEBES, THE MOLUCCAS, NEW GUINEA, TIMOR, 

 JAVA, AND SUMATRA 



Having been unable to find a vessel direct to Macassar, I took 

 passage to Lombok, whence I was assured I should easily 

 reach my destination. By this delay, which seemed to me at 

 the time a misfortune, I was enabled to make some very in- 

 teresting collections in Bali, and Lombok, two islands which 

 I should otherwise never have seen. I was thus enabled to 

 determine the exact boundary between two of the primary 

 zoological regions, the Oriental and the Australian, and also 

 to see the only existing remnant of the Hindu race and reli- 

 gion, and of the old civilization which had erected the wonder- 

 ful ruined temples in Java centuries before the Mohammedan 

 invasion of the archipelago. 



After two months and a half in Lombok, I found a pas- 

 sage to Macassar, which I reached the beginning of Septem- 

 ber, and lived there nearly three months, when I left for the 

 Aru Islands in a native prau. The country around Macassar 

 greatly disappointed me, as it was perfectly flat and all cul- 

 tivated as rice fields, the only sign of woods being the palms 

 and fruit trees in the suburbs of Macassar and others mark- 

 ing the sites of native villages. I had letters to a Dutch 

 merchant who spoke English as well as Malay and the Bugis 

 language of Celebes, and who was quite friendly with the 

 native rajah of the adjacent territory. Through his good 

 offices I was enabled to stay at a native village about eight 

 miles inland, where there were some patches of forest, and 

 where I at once obtained some of the rare birds and insects 

 peculiar to Celebes. After about a month I returned to 



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