nt watch over his cat family, and to severely punish any
offender. Perhaps in time they will learn to employ the python as a
rat-catcher, for the python is not surpassed for this purpose.

The forest trees are much like those of the adjacent islands. There are
no very large animals, those peculiar to Celebes being the tailless
baboon and the "pig-deer," which has tusks and curving horns.

Parts of the interior of Celebes still remain unexplored and are said to
be inhabited by cannibals and head-hunters.

Macassar is the capital and chief city. It is situated in the southern
part of the southwestern peninsula, and in commerce ranks next to the
largest cities of Java. Its trade totals upward of three million dollars
annually.

The principal exports of the island are coffee, rice, nutmegs, cloves,
dammer, copal, rattan, copra, tobacco, trepang, and tortoise-shell;
coffee greatly outranking all the other products.

CHAPTER XXXIV

BORNEO AND PAPUA

Hot, damp, and swampy along the coast lowlands; rugged and fairly
pleasant in the high plateau lands--that is Borneo, an island as large
as the State of Texas. Borneo has a great future, however, when a race
of civilized people can be found who can inhabit it, for it is even more
unhealthful than Sumatra.

But the wealth is there--diamonds that are rather poor in color, gold,
copper, iron, coal, and petroleum. That is a good list, and it remains
only to find a people who can live there and make the great wealth of
the island available to the world. Perhaps it may be the Japanese--less
likely the Chinese, for they are content to trade with the natives.
Possibly it may be the Filipinos--for some of the Filipinos, especially
the Moros, are the descendants of Borneo peoples.

Safe it is to say that the native tribes will not accomplish this
result, for they are among the most debased and disgusting savages on
the face of the earth. Many of these tribes are Malays governed by
chiefs, or dattoes. Some of the tribes near the coast carry on a crude
sort of farming, which is encouraged by the Chinese merchants who buy
their produce. Some of the interior tribes just live, being both lazy
and vicious. For food, there is an abundance of bananas and meat. As to
the meat, it makes little or no difference about the kind; any animal
whose flesh has become putrid is relished.

The most interesting natives of Borneo, however, are the Dyaks, the
people from whom the Moros of the