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A NATURALIST'S WAA^J)E]tINOS 



could not but raise strange reflections in the breast of a 

 European traveller. 



As still another day of waitinj^ for the horses for the 

 continuance of our journey— to the kingdom of Bibi^upu — had 

 to be passed here, I was not disapjxiintcd at the opportunity 

 thus afforded of increasing my herbarium along the slopes 

 of Eusconna, whose summit commanded a view of btitli seas 

 — the Tam-feto or female sea on the north, and the Tam- 

 manni or male sea (as the natives have named them), to the 

 south — and of the peak of Kabulaki, the highest mountain 

 of all Eastern Timor, The mountains of Turskaln were every- 

 where covered with a rich carpet of green grass, which gave 

 them a most pleasant and fertile appearance^ and on which 

 thousands of sheep might be pastured with great profit. 



