300 TRAVELS IN THE EAST INDUK AKCBIPELAGO, 



peaks were seen. After tliis destruction it was again 

 settled, and in 1855 ita population numbered six 

 tliousand. In 1862 it again burst forth, destroying 

 nearly every one on the whole island. So great a 

 quantity of ashes was thrown out, that at Temate, 

 about forty miles tlistant, they covered the ground 

 to the depth of from three to four inches, and neai-ly 

 all the vegetation, except the large trees, was de- 

 stroyed. A similar devastation caused the severest 

 sufleriog within all that radius. But this eruption, 

 fearful as it was, could not he compared to that of 

 Mount Toniboro, already described. 



North of Makian is Motir, a deep cone of trachyt- 

 ic lava, about one thousand feet in height. During 

 the next night we passed between the high, sharp 

 peak of Tidore on the right and that of Temate on 

 the left, and, enteiing a large, well-sheltered bay, an- 

 chored off the village, situated on the eastern declivi- 

 ty of the latter mountain. This morning m the sun 

 rose the scene was both chartuing and impoisiug 

 —imposing, while we looked upward to the lofty 

 siunmit of this old volcano and watched the clouds 

 of white gas rising in a pei-pendicular column high 

 into the sky, until they came up to a level whei*e 

 the air was moving, and at once spread out into a 

 broad, horizontal band, while the sun was pouring 

 down a perfect flood of bright light over the high 

 crest of the ancient peak and the city on its flanks ; 

 charming as we looked below the level water-line on 

 the shore, and beheld the whole grand sight above, 

 perfectly miiTored beneath in the quiet sea This 

 was the tii'st mountain, whose flanks ai'e cultivated, 



