TAX JONG FIASCO. 



lives. Noi-tli of the Sangir islands are the Talaut 

 group. These are the most northern islands under 

 the Dutehj and the boundary of their possessions in 

 this part of the archipelago. 



The steamer Menado, on which I had pre^dously 

 taken passage from Batavia all the way to Amboina, 

 now aiTived at Kema. She bad brought my collec- 

 tion from Aml^oina, Buni, and Temate, and I was 

 ready to return to Java^ for some months had passed 

 since I accomplished the object of my journey to the 

 Spice Islands, and duiing that time I had travelled 

 many hundred miles and had reached several regions 

 which 1 had not dared to expect to see, even when I 

 left Batavia. A whale-ship from New Bedford was 

 also in the road, and when I visited her and heard 

 every one, even the cabin-boy, speaking English, it 

 seemed almost as strange as it did to hear nothing 

 but Malay and Dutch when I first arrived in Java* 

 Many whales are usually found east of the Sangij 

 Islands, and north of Gilolo and New Guinea. 



tTmiuary IQth — At noon steamed out of the bay 

 of Kema and down the eastern coast of Celebes for 

 Macassar. When the sun was settings we were just 

 off Tanjong Fiasco, which foi-ms the northern limit 

 of the bay of Gorontalo or Tomini. As the sun 

 sank beliind tlie end of this high promontory, its 

 jagged outline received a broad margin of g6ld 

 Bands of sti'ati stretched across the sky from noii^h 

 to south and successively changed from gold to a 

 l^iiglit crimson, and then to a deep, dark red as the 

 sunlight fiided. All this bright coloring of the sky 

 wa,^ repeated in the mn, an<l the air between them 



