A GLANCE AT MINAHASSA. 
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kept, which reminds us of some parts of Java, although this resem¬ 
blance does not go very far, as little save barter is carried on. The 
articles exposed are baskets of a certain size filled with paddy, cabos 
salt, vegetables &c. With money scarcely anything can be purchased. 
From far and near people come here to barter one thing for another. 
Sometimes an exchange is made without a single word passing. 
Perhaps some person has salt and wants fish. He selects some fish 
and places its value in salt, according to his estimate, beside it. The 
owner of the fish does not look at him and remains silent. The 
other now adds more salt by little and little until, at last, the owner 
of the fish pushes the fish to him, and takes possession of the salt, 
and the transaction is concluded. 
Amongst the remarkable things at Tondano are the famous cas¬ 
cade and the lake. Accompanied by the Major of Tuliemambot, 
we walked to the first which, going and coming, may be considered 
a good walk. At a considerable distance we hear the continued 
rush of the water. When we arrive at the pondoppo, which is si- 
tuated at the side of the ravine, and see the roaring water falling 
below with a thundering crash, the seene becomes magnificent. 
The real fall, that is to say so far as the water falls without encount¬ 
ering any obstacle, is about sixty feet. Properly it commences high¬ 
er up, but is there broken and forms another fall, whence it rushes 
to the true fall. The spot on the small bridge above the river where 
the second fall commences is appalling. You feel an irresistable 
shuddering and notwithstanding the spars on which you stand have 
proved their strength, you fear every moment that they will be loos¬ 
ened, the inevitable consequence of which would be that you would 
be at once crushed. At the first fall, some tree trunks, as thick as 
a man’s waist, were thrown into the water, but the eye in vain tried to 
follow them in their course, and we could see nothing more of them 
after their fall. It sometimes happens that small prahus, from 
carelessness, get adrift in the negory above and are brought by the 
current towards the fall, when nothing more is ever seen of them. 
In the ravine the fall forms a basin, across which, although it is ve¬ 
ry slippery, you can run. Formerly on both sides of the precipice 
there hung ladders of rattan by which you could descend below. 
This fall is the commencement of the river which runs into the sea 
at the capital Mena do. 
On our return we went to visit the notorious Kiay Modjo, the 
head priest of Diepo Negoro. He is small and of mean appearance, 
