He Introduced Me To Mr. L. Duivenboden (Whose Father
Had Been My Friend At Ternate), Who Had Much Taste For Natural
History; And To Mr. Neys, A Native Of Menado, But Who Was
Educated At Calcutta, And To Whom Dutch, English, And Malay Were
Equally Mother-Tongues.
All these gentlemen showed me the
greatest kindness, accompanied me in my earliest walks about the
country, and assisted me by every means in their power.
I spent a
week in the town very pleasantly, making explorations and
inquiries after a good collecting station, which I had much
difficulty in finding, owing to the wide cultivation of coffee
and cacao, which has led to the clearing away of the forests for
many miles around the town, and over extensive districts far into
the interior.
The little town of Menado is one of the prettiest in the East. It
has the appearance of a large garden containing rows of rustic
villas with broad paths between, forming streets generally at
right angles with each other. Good roads branch off in several
directions towards the interior, with a succession of pretty
cottages, neat gardens, and thriving plantations, interspersed
with wildernesses of fruit trees. To the west and south the
country is mountainous, with groups of fine volcanic peaks 6,000
or 7,000 feet high, forming grand and picturesque backgrounds to
the landscape.
The inhabitants of Minahasa (as this part of Celebes is called)
differ much from those of all the rest of the island, and in fact
from any other people in the Archipelago.
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