CBBAM. 
the eastward of tlie rivers wKere they have remained ever 
since."* 
The waringin-tree, alluded to by Valentyn, is a variety 
of the FicuSj very closely resembling the banyan-tree of 
the continent of India ; spreading in Hke maimer over a 
large space of ground, the lateral branches sending down 
shoots, which take root, and become supplementary 
trunks. The circumstance of the wilder Papuans taking 
delight in residing among the branches of warin gin- 
trees, whose dense foliage and horizontally spreading 
branches render them well adapted for the purpose, has 
been repeatedly noticed by travellers, but hitherto their 
accounts seem to have been little credited. This tree is 
of peculiar interest in counection with the earlier history 
of the native races of the Far East, as it is regarded with a 
superstitious veneration by all the aboriginal tribes of the 
Archipelago, as well as by those of the northern coasts 
of Australia, and by the lower classes, at least, of the 
Chinese. 
Valentyn's account of a wild people found in the 
interior of Ceram, which is given below, agrees with 
information obtained by the writer within the last few 
years fi-om natives of the south coast of that island, 
except as regards their being cannibals, on which point 
the informants were not unanimons. But all agreed in 
describing them as a particularly small race, of vety dark 
complexion, with black frizzled hair, resembling that of 
the Papuans. " There are yet many other Alfocrs (^Z- 
foereesen) existing in the eastern part of Ceram i as those 
* YalentyB, " Bescliryvinge vaa Amboina," p. 56. 
