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side, and Is tlie residence of the sultan, whose tem- 

 toiy is no less extensive than that of the Sultan of 

 Temate. It includes Tidore, Man, the two eastern 

 peninsulas of Gilolo, Gehi, Misol^ Salwatti, Battanta, 

 and the adjacent islands, the western and north- 

 em shores of the western peninsula of Kew Guinea, 

 and the islands in Geelvink Bay, The population 

 of Tidore and Mari is about se^en thousand five 

 hundred. The former cultivate the flanks of the 

 mountain up to a height of about tlu'ee thousand 

 feet. Above this line is a dense wood, but the 

 pointed summit is quite bare. The income of this 

 sultan consists in his shai-e of the produce obtained 

 on Gilolo, in the sago, massoi-bark, tortoise-shell, 

 tripang, and paradise-birds, whicb are yearly brought 

 from Papua, and the islands between it and Celebes, 

 and in twelve tljonsand eight hundred guilders (over 

 five thousand dollars) paid him by the Dutch Gov- 

 erament, in accordance with the promise made by 

 the East India Company, when they destroyed the 

 spice-trees in his ten'itory. The extension of the 

 empire of Tidore eastward was probably effected by 

 Malays, who migrated iji that direction; for it is 

 stated in regard to Misol that the Papuans, who are 

 now driven back into the interior, occupied the 

 whole island when it was first \asited by Europeans, 

 This tendency to push on toward the coast is the 

 more interesting, because it is generally supposed 

 that, ages and ages ago, the ancestoi^ of the present 

 Polynesian race passed out from this pai-t of the 

 Malay Archipelago into Micronesia, and thence into 

 the wide area they noAv occupy. From the noithern 



