FROM KEMA TO EENADO. 



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While tliey were telling me these stones I thouglit 

 of the danger to which I must often have been nncon- 

 sciously exposed while wandering mile after mile 

 through the jungles on Burn, never suspecting that, 

 before I left the archipelago, I myself should be 

 forced into a deadful combat mth one of these mon- 

 sters, and in such a place that one or the other must 

 die on the spot. 



Ihe next day we returned to Kema^ and I began 

 my journey orer the peninsula to Menado, and thence 

 up to the plateau in the interior, 



Decemhm' 2Qth. — At 9 a. m. started on horseback, 

 the only mode of travelling in the Minahassa, for Mena- 

 do, the largest village in this peninsula of Celebes, and 

 the place where the Resident of this region is located. 

 I went there first, in order to see the Eesident and 

 obtain lettei^s to the officials of the interior. The 

 distance jfrom Kema to Menado is about twenty milea 

 The road is made only for cai-ts, but nearly all the 

 way it is lined mth shade-trees, and in several places, 

 for long distances, they meet overhead so as to form 

 a eontia\ious covered way, thus aifording to those 

 who travel to and fro an admirable shelter from the 

 hot sunshine and heavy showers. Among these trees 

 were many crows, Cbnms eiiki^ not shy as they always 

 are in our coimtiyj but so tame that I frequently rode 

 within ten yai'ds of where they were sitting without . 

 causing them to move. Numbers of a bright-yellow 

 bii'd, about as large as our robin, were seen among 

 the branches, and on the ground another somewhat 

 larger than a blackbird, Dwmms^ with a long, lyi-e- 

 shaped tailj and a plumage of shining blue- black. 



