203 TRAVELS IN THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



em end of tlie island from the eastward. The west- 

 ern third is again divided into two unequal peninsulas 

 by the bay of Tanuno. The westernmost is called 

 Howamowel^ or " Little Ceram and is connected with 

 the middle peninsula, Kaibobo, by an isthmus leas 

 than a mile broad. Kaibobo is again connected with 

 the eastern two-thirds of the island by an isthmus 

 about three miles broad. The whole island is really 

 but one great momxtain-chaiQ, which sends off many 

 transverse ranges and spurs, and the only low land it 

 contains is east of the bay of Amahai, along its south- 

 ern shore. In the western peninsula the mountains 

 do not have any considerable height, but in the 

 middle one some peaks attain an elevation of five 

 thousand or six thousand feet, and in the middle 

 part of the eastern peninsula Mount Nusaheli is sup- 

 posed to rise more than three thousand metres (nine 

 thousand eight hundred and forty-two English feet) 

 above the sea. Over all these elevations stretches one 

 continuous and unbroken forest. So great a part of 

 the whole island is unknovra that various and widely- 

 different estimates of its population have been made.* 

 Some of its peaks now became visible through the 

 oiist, and soon we were in Elpaputi Bay^ and, chang- 

 ing our coui'se toward the east, entered a small inlet 

 called the bay of Amahai, At the head of this bay 

 is the small village of the same name, containing a 

 population of thirteen hnndi'ed souls. The conf/ro- 



* In 1854 the western part that ia moluded in the residency of EiJa 

 was sappoaed to contain a popnlation of two tliousimd four hundred and 

 Bixty-eight; the middle peninsula and the bay visited on this voyage, 

 twenty-four thousand one hondrcd and ninety-four ; the northern iMMat 



