336 TBAYELS IN THE EA^T INDIAX ARCHIPELAGO. 



These birds rarely or ne^^er hear the report of a gun, 

 and therefore have not learned to look on man as a 

 universal destroyer, and the tamene^s they manifest 

 imperfectly charming. Even the black crow, with its 

 hoarse caw, becomes an attractive bird when you 

 find he no longer tries to shun your company, but 

 makes all the overtures he can to be social. 



The road nms along the southern flanks of Mount 

 Klabat, and is slowly ascending fix>m Kemd to 

 Ayar-madidi, which is about half-way across, and then 

 slowly descends again to the western sbore of the 

 peninsula On my right hand was a deep valley, 

 and fine scenery was occasionally revealed thi'ough 

 the foliage of the trees that covered the way. On 

 the opposite side of the valley were many small pro- 

 jecting ridges that have been fonned by denuding 

 torrents, and extend do^vn to the level of the stream 

 that flows out from the lake of Tondano to the ocean 

 at Kema, 



By noon I came to the village of Ayar-madidi, 

 " Hot Water," a name it receives from a neighboring 

 spring, which in fomier times was bot. As it comes 

 out of Mount Klabat, it was probably heated by the 

 volcanic action that raised that great mountain, which 

 is only an extinct volcano. As the volcanic action 

 decreased, the heat passed off, until now, the water is 

 as cool as that of any other stream in the vicinity. 

 Even as late as the 12th of November, 1848, tliis 

 water was described as " cooking hot." According 

 to Valentyn, in the yeai' 1683, a great ei-uption took 

 place in a mountain near Menado, which he calls 

 ** Kemaas,'^ and all the surrounding country was laid 



