GILOLO is one of the Molucca Islands. Its north end is in about lat. 2° 23' N. It has a long mountainous coast, high bold land, with three remarkable peaks. The indigenes live in the north of the island. Their stature, their features, as well as their dispositions and habits, are almost the same as those of the Papuan. Their hair is semi Papuan, always crisp, waved, and rough, such as often occurs ainong the true Papuans but never among the Malays. Their colour alone is often' exactly that of the Malay, or even lighter. In most cases, the large, somewhat aquiline nose, with elongated apex, the tall stature, the waved hair, bearded face and hairy body, as well as the less reserved manner and louder voice, unmistakingly proclaim the Papuan type. Here is the exact boundary between the Malay and Papuan race. It is only in the Northern Peninsula that these Papuan indigenes exist, the whole of the rest of the island, with Batchian and the other islands westward, being exclusively inhabited by Malay tribes like those of Ternate and Tidore. The
Galela race are natives of a distriet in the extreme north of Gilolo, but they are great wanderers over the Archipelago. They are a very fine race, remarkably energetic and industrious, of light complexion, tall, and with Papuan features, coming near to the drawings and descriptions of the true Polynesians of Tahiti_anuj Owyhee. They build large and roomy -praliu With outriggers, and settle on any coast or island they take a fancy for.
They catch turtle and trepang, hunt deer aud wild pigs and dry tho meat, and cut down the forest aud plant rico or maize. Patti gigas, a large ground thrush of Gilolo, is one of the most beauti ful birds of the East. Its plumage is a velvety black above, breast of pure white, shoulders of azure blue, and belly of vivid crimson. Char inosyna plaeentis of Gilolo is one of the smallest and most beautiful of the brush-tongued lories. Coetia d'Urvillei a rare and beautiful day-flying inoth.—llorsburg'h; Bik-more ; Wallace, ii. pp. 2, 3.