of North Polynesia. The Papuan type will represent the
remnant of the aborigines, while those of the Bugis
character show the extension northward of the superior
Malay races.
As I was wasting valuable time at Panghu owing to the
bad weather and the illness of my hunters, I returned to
Menado after a stay of three weeks. Here I had a little
touch of fever, and what with drying and packing away
my collections and getting fresh servants, it was a fortnight
before I was again ready to start. I now went eastward
over an undulating country skirting the great volcano of
Klabat, to a village called Lempias, situated close to the
extensive forest that covers the lower slopes of that mountain.
My baggage was carried from village to village by
relays of men, and as each change involved some delay, I
did not reach my destination (a distance of eighteen miles)
till sunset. I was wet through, and had to wait for an
hour in an uncomfortable state till the first instalment of
my baggage arrived, which luckily contained my clothes,
while the rest did not come in till midnight.
This being the district inhabited by that singular animal
the Babirusa (Hog-deer) I inquired about skulls, and soon
obtained several in tolerable condition, as well as a fine one
of the rare arid curious “ Sapi-utan ” (Anoa depressicornis).
Of this animal I had seen two living specimens at Menado,
and was surprised at their great resemblance to small
cattle, or still more to the Eland of South Africa. Their
Malay name signifies “ forest ox,” and they differ from very
small high-bred oxen principally by the low-hanging dewlap,
and straight pointed horns which slope back over the
neck. I did not find the forest here so rich in insects as
I had expected, and my hunters got me very few birds,
but what they did obtain were very interesting. Among
these were the rare forest Kingfisher (Cittura cyanotis),
a small new species of Megapodius, and one specimen of
the large and interesting Maleo (Megacephalon rubripes),
to obtain which was one of my chief reasons for visiting
this district. Getting no more, however, after ten days’
search I removed to Licoupang, at the extremity of the
peninsula, a place celebrated for these birds, as well as for
the Babirusa and Sapi-utan. I found here Mr. Goldmann,
the eldest son of the Governor of the Moluccas, who was
superintending the establishment of some Government saltworks.
This was a better locality, and I obtained some
fine butterflies and very good birds, among which was
one more specimen of the rare ground dove (Phlegsenas
tristigmata), which I had first obtained near the Maros
waterfall in South Celebes.
Hearing what I was particularly in search of, Mr.
Goldmann kindly offered. to make a hunting-party to the
place where the “ Maleos ” are most abundant, a remote
and uninhabited sea-beach about twenty miles distant.