2g2 CELEBES. [caAP. xvii. 



identical pattern of pale spots. I also found a single 

 specimen of a most curious species with very long ant(iiimi\ 

 Bnt my tinest discovery hei-c was the Cicindela gloriosa, 

 which i found on mossy stones just rising ahove tlie water. 

 After obtaining my first specimen of this degant inject, I 

 xiBed to walk up the stream, watching carefully every 

 moss-covered rock and stone. It was rather shy, ami 

 would often lead me a long chase from stone to stone, 

 beconung invisible every time it settled on the damp 

 moss, owing to its rich velvety green colour. On some 

 days I could only catch a few glim|)ses of it, on others 1 

 got a single specimen, and on a few occasions two, hut 

 never without a more or less active pursuit This and 

 several other species I never saw but in this one ravine. 



Among the people here 1 saw specimens of several types, 

 which, with the peculiarities of the languages, gives me 

 some notion of their probable origin. A striking illustra- 

 tion of the low state of civilization of these people till 

 quite recently. Is to be found in the great divei-sity of their 

 hxuguages. Villages three or four miles apart have sepa- 

 rate dialects, and each group of three or four snch villages 

 has a distinct language quite unintelligible to all tiie rest \ 

 so that, tUl the recent introduction of Malay by the Mit^- 

 sionaries, there must have been a bar to idl free communi- 

 cation. These languages oiler many peculiarities. They 

 contain a Celelves-Malay element and a Papuan element, 

 along with some radical peculiarities found idso in the 

 languages of the Siau and Sanguir islands further north, 

 and therefore probably derived from the lliilippine Islands. 

 Physical characters correspond. There are some of tlie less 

 civilized tribes which have semi-Papuan features and hair, 

 while in some villages the true Celebes or Eugis pliy- 

 siognoray pi^evails. The plateau of Toudano is chieily 

 inhabited by people nearly as white as the Chinese, and 

 with very pleasing semi-European features. The people 

 of Siau and Sanguir mucli resemble these, and I believe 

 them to be perhaps immigrants from some of the islands 

 of North Polynesiiu The Papuan type will represent the 

 remnant of the aborigines, wliilc those of tlie Bugia 

 character show the extension northward of the superior 

 Malay races. 



