2 2 GILOLO. [chap. xxir.
therefore believe it to have been separated from Gilolo
at a somewhat remote epoch; while we learn from its^
natural history that an arm of the sea twenty-five miles
wide serves to limit the range even of birds of considerable
powers of flight.
CHAPTER XXIII.
TERNATE TO THE KAI(5a ISLANDS AND BATCHIAN.
(OCTOBER 1858.)
0N returning to Ternate from Sahoe, I at once began
making preparations for a journey to Batchian, an
island which I had been constantly recommended to visit
since I had arrived in this part of the Moluccas. After all
was ready I found that I should have to hire a boat, as
no opportunity of obtaining a passage presented itself, I
accordingly went into the native town, and could only find
two boats for hire, one much larger than I required, and
the other far smaller than I wished. I chose the smaller
one, chiefly because it would not cost me one-third as
much as the larger one, and also because in a coasting
voyage a small vessel can be more easily managed, and
more readily got into a place of safety during violent
gales, than a large one. I took with me my Bornean lad
Ali, who was now very useful to m e ; Lahagi, a native
of Ternate, a very good steady man, and a fair shooter,
who had been with me to Xew Guinea; Lahi, a native of