316 GiWLO. [chap. xxn. 



making good collection^ in this place. Nothing wiis tu 

 he found in eveiy direction hut interminable tracts of 

 reedy gniss, eight or t<.'n feet high, traversed by narrow 

 paths, often almost impassable. Here nud there were 

 clumps of fruit trees, pa'^che.s of low wood, mid ahundaiiee 

 of plantations and rice grounds, all of \\ liich are, in troijieal 

 regions, a very desert f-jr the entoniologiiit. The virdn 

 fove&t that 1 was in search of, existed m\y on the feunmiit^i 

 and on the steep rocky sides of the momitains a long way 

 off, and in iiuiccessihlc situations. In the suburbs oF tlie 

 village 1 found a fair nundiL^r of bees and wasps, and some 

 small but interi-sting beetles. Two or three new birds 

 were obtained by my hunters, and by inces-?ant inquiries 

 and promises I succeeded in getting the natives to brint* 

 me some land shells, among whielj was a very fine and 

 handsome one. Helix pyrostoma. I was, however, com- 

 pletely wasting my tin^e here conijiared with wiiat I mi;4ht 

 be doing in a good locality, and after a week returned to 

 Ternate, quite disappointed with my fii*st attempts at col- 

 lecting in Gilolo. 



In the country round about Sahoe, and in the interior, 

 there is a hirge population of indigenes, nundters of whom 

 came daily into the village, bringijig tlieir juoduce for sale, 

 whde otbois were engaged as labourers Liy the Chiufse 

 and Terntite traders. A careful examiuatioii convinced mt' 

 that Uiese peojde are radically distinct from all tlie Malay 

 races. Their stature ajid their features, as well as their 

 disposition and habit.s, are almost the same as those of the 

 Papuans; their hair is somi-Papuan— neither stt^ight. 

 Bmootli, and glossy, like all true Malays', nor so frizzly and 

 woolly as tlie ]ieri\"ct rajm.-in type, Init always erisjj, 

 waved, and lougli, sueh as often occurs among the tnie 

 rapuans. but never atuong the Jlalays. Their colour 

 alone is often exactly that of the Malay, or even lighter. 

 Of course there has been intermixture, and there occur 

 occasionally individuals which it is ditlienlt to classify ; 

 jut in most cases the huge, somewhat aquiline Jiose, with 

 dongated a]jex, tlie tall stature, the waved hair, the bearde 1 

 lace, and haiiy body, as well iis tlie less reserved manuer 

 and louder voice, unmistakeably proclaim the Papuan 

 type. Here then 1 had discovered the exact buundary line 



