340 TRAVELS IX THE EAST INDUN AfiCniPELAGO. 



style. It is situated in the middle of a large, ol>long 

 lawn^ that is smTomided with a row of trees much 

 like our locust-trees, and which are now in full hloom, 

 Near the gate ai^e a guard-house and long series of star 

 bles. Dismounting here, I walked up to the broad 

 piazza, where the major sat smoking his pipe in the 

 Butch style, and discussing iu the Butch langnage 

 the state of the weather, the crops, and sucli things 

 as interested the Butclmien of those lands. His 

 manners were polished, and he received me in a most 

 stately way. His Mends were going to Menado, so 

 that I should have companions the rest of the way. 

 Our dinner was in European style, which seemed the 

 more remarkal>le to me because it differed so much 

 from the w^ay I had been entertained by the rajahs 

 of the Moluccas. In our dining-room was a fine 

 series of pictures representing scenes in that most 

 charming tale, " Paul and Virginia." We were just at 

 the foot of Mount Klabat, but we could not see its 

 summit on account of thick rain-clouds that covered 

 its sides, and now and then rolled down and poured 

 out heavy showers over the village. As one of these 

 floated away to the east, the sun came out brightly 

 and changed the falling drops into a remarkably 

 broad and brilliant rainbow, which seemed sus- 

 pended from the cloud, and floated along with it in 

 a most magical mannei-. 



Here I saw for the first time the plant from 

 which *'manilla hemp" is manufactured. It is a 

 species of banana, Musa texUUs^ and grows to a 

 height of twelve or fifteen feet. It appears to be 

 indigenous, and can be raised here from the seeiL 



