200 TRAVELS IN THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



tliej are eaten off, the whole structure comes to the 

 ground. A lai'ge L attached to the cmitrolmr^s 

 house, which we have been using lor a dining- 

 rooEDj fell down from this cause the other day. At- 

 terwardj when I came to Macassar, a fine war-steamer 

 of eight himdj'ed or one thousand tons was pointed 

 out to me, which the white ants had succeeded in 

 establishing themselves in, and several gentlemen^ 

 who ought to have known, said that she was so 

 badly eaten by them that she was almost unsea- 

 worthy. 



On another occasion the commandant and I went 

 to the west end of the bay to hunt deer. We started 

 early, and at eight o'clock were already at the mouth 

 of a small stream, which we ascended for a short dis- 

 tance, and a guide then led us through a strip of 

 woods that lined the banks. Our party in all con- 

 sisted of more than twenty, half of whom were sol- 

 diei's, armed with rifles; the others came to start 

 up the game. When we passed out into a level, 

 open prairie, all that had guns were posted about 

 twenty yards apart, in a line parallel to the woods. 

 The others made a long circuit round, and finally en* 

 tered the forest before us. Then forming into a line, 

 they began to drive toward us, shouting with all 

 their might, and making a din homd enough to 

 ft'ifrhten other animals less timid than deer. Packs 

 of dogs, that the natives had brought, were mean- 

 time yelping and howling. Soon there was a crack- 

 ing in the bushes near rae, and at the next in- 

 stant came a female and her fawn, with high, flying 

 leai^ through the tall grass. I carried a heavy gov- 



