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CELSSES, 



On my return, after a seven months* absence, I visited 

 another district to the north of Macassar, which will form 

 the aubject of the next chapter. 



CHAPTER XVr. 



CELEBES 



(MACASSAR. JULY TO NOVEMBER, 1897.) 



I 1{ EACH ED ilacassar again on the 11th of July, and 

 established myself in my old quarters at Maniiijam, to 

 sort, arran^^e, clean, and pack up my Aru collections. • This 

 occupied me a month ; and having shipped them ofif for 

 Singapore, had my guns repaired, and received a new one 

 from Engh^nd, together with a stock of pins, ai'seeic, and 

 other collecting requisites, I began to feel eager for work 

 again, and had to consider where I should spend my time 

 till the end of the year. I had left Macassar, seven 

 moutlis before, a flooded marsh being ploughed np for the 

 rice-sowing. The rains had continued for live months, yet 

 now all the rice was cut, and dry and dusty stubbles 

 covered the country just as when 1 had first arrived there. 



After much inquiry I determined to visit the district of 

 Miiros, about thirty miles north of Macassar, where Mr. 

 Jacob MesraaD, a brother of n^y friend, resided, who had 

 kindly offered to find me house-room and give me assist- 

 ance should I feel inclined to visit hi in, I accordingly 

 obtained a pass from the liesidenfc, and having hireil a 

 boat set off one evening for Maros. My boy Ali was so 

 ill with fever that I was obliged to leave him in the 

 hospital, undtT the care of my fritind the German doctor, 

 and I had to make shift with two new servants utterly 

 ignoi-ant of everything. We coasted along during the 

 night, and at daybreak entered the Maroa river, and by 

 thii2e in the afternoon peached the village. I immediately 

 visited the .Assistant Resident, and applied for ten men to 



