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 

 religion, and of the old civilization which had erected the 

 wonderful ruined temples in Java centuries before the 

 Mohammedan invasion of the archipelago. 



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

 passage to Macassar, which I reached the beginning of 

 September, 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 cultivated as rice fields, the only sign of woods being 

 the palms and fruit trees in the suburbs of Macassar and 

 others marking 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 



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