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Ms staff, a gentleoiau who had previously beeu gov- 

 ernor of the Moluccas, carne to this place while the 

 others were resting at Tondano, and committed sui- 

 cide by plunging headlong into the deep canal above 

 the high fall Only a shoi*t time before, he had dined 

 with the whole company and seemed very cheerful^ 

 but here, probably in a moment of unusual despon- 

 dency, he made the fatal leap. 



Continuing in the way that followed this crooked 

 stream, I occasionally beheld the high top of Mount 

 Klnbat before me. Several large buttei^ies flitted 

 to and fro, their rich, velvety blue and green coloi's 

 seeming almost too bright to be reaL At the eighth 

 paal we came to the native village Sawangan, and the 

 chief showed me the bmial-place of his people pre- 

 vious to the ai'rival of Europeans. Most of the 

 monuments consist of thi*ee separate stones placed 

 one on another. The lowest is square or oblong, and 

 partly bmied iu the earth. Its upper sm^face has 

 been squared off that the second might rest on it 

 more fii'mly. This is a i-ectangular-parallelopipedon, 

 one or two feet wide and two-thirds as thick, and 

 from two to three feet high. It is placed on end on 

 the fii'st stone. In its upper end a deep hole has 

 been made, and in this the body of the deceased is 

 plaeed. It was covei'ed by the thii-d stone of a tri- 

 angular form when viewed at the end, and made to 

 represent that part of a house above the eaves. It 

 projects a little beyond the perpendicular stone be- 

 neath it. On the sides of the roof rude %ui-es of 

 men, women, and childi-en were carved, all with the 

 knees drawn up against the chin and cla.*^ped by tha 



