CHAPTEK YTII 
CELEBES 
1. General. 
Celebes is the fourth island in magnitude in the Eastern 
Archipelago, being surpassed only by New Guinea, 
Borneo, and Sumatra. It has Borneo—from which it is 
separated by the Makassar Strait—on the west, and the 
scattered islands of the Moluccas on the east. On the 
north it is washed by the Celebes Sea, which intervenes 
between it and the Philippines, while to the south an 
island-dotted stretch of ocean of no great depth—the 
Flores Sea—separates it from the island of that name 
and others of the Sunda chain. It thus occupies a 
position midway between the great Malay islands on the 
one hand and the Papuan group on the other, belonging, 
as will be seen, to neither of these divisions, but exhibit¬ 
ing zoological and other peculiarities of a most marked 
and interesting nature, which serve to isolate it in a 
remarkable manner from every other island in the 
archipelago. 
In shape Celebes is one of the most fantastic and 
curious islands in the world, although Gilolo to the east¬ 
ward seems almost a replica upon a smaller scale, and 
Borneo, as has already been mentioned, must in former 
