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obtained from a few small wells near the beach ; and as 
the people live high up on the hills, they rarely, if ever, 
use water for any purpose but for drinking. They are 
brown Papuans with frizzly hair, and are pagans, but 
from much association with the Bugis and Goram traders 
have obtained some small tincture of Mohammedanism. 
Tior, the Nusa-tello, and Tionfoloka islands complete 
the chain between Ceram and the Ke group. They 
appear to be inhabited by a mixed race chiefly Papuan 
in character. 
13. The K6 Islands. 
This small but compact little archipelago lies between 
5° and 6° S. Lat., and consists of three chief islands— 
Nuhu Ju-ud or Great Ke, Nuhu Eoa or Little Ke, and 
Ke Dulan. They came formally into the possession of 
Holland as far back as 1665; but so little were they 
explored up till 1886, when they were surveyed by Cap¬ 
tain Langen, that not only their outline, but even their 
number, was unknown. Their entire surface is covered 
with the densest jungle, and they are tolerably thickly 
peopled as compared with many islands in these seas. 
Though there are no active volcanoes, old craters have 
been found both on Ke Dulan and Ju-ud, and severe 
earthquakes have occurred. The islands differ consider¬ 
ably. Ju-ud or Great Ke is long, narrow, and elevated; 
in shape like a club or bludgeon, its head lying to the 
north. Although 64 miles in length, its average breadth 
is not more than from 1 to 3 miles. It is said to be 
composed of sandstones and granites, but its northern 
peaks—the highest of which is 2200 feet—are probably 
volcanic. A long and narrow channel, apparently of 
deep water, separates this island from the others, which 
