MENADO. The tongue of land in the north of Celebes, known administratively under the name of the Dutch Residency of Meuado, comprehends all the northern extent of the island, from the bay of Palos in the west to the Cape of Taliabo in the east, and comprises the great bay or arm of the sea of Gunong-tello, which stretches in a westerly direction between the two peninsulas. The Residency includes under its jurisdiction the whole federative states of Minahasa, the small kingdoms of the northern coast, the very ex tensive districts in the west part of the Peninsula, where Government exercises sway, besides the islands of Sangir and Talaut to the north, as well as the lesser islands of the west coast and the large gulf of Tomini. In 1882, 3Ienado, Minahasa, and Gorontalo had an area of 1267.2 Dutch geo graphical square miles, with 776 Europeans, 231,357 Indigenes, 2356 Chinese, and 52 others. The Alfoura population are in the elevated and woody parts of Kayeli, Toradja, and Tomeiku.
Near Menado is a race called Biutek, strong but intractable, who have hitherto resisted all efforts to improve them. Sonic of the less civilised tribes have semi-Papuan features and hair, while in some villages the true Celebes or Bugi physiog nomy prevails. The plateau of Tondano is chiefly inhabited by people nearly as white as the Chinese, and with very pleasing semi-European features. The people of Siao and Sangir much resemble these, and Mr. Wallace believes them probably to be immigrants from some of the islands of North Polynesia. The Papuan type will represent the remnant of the aborigines. The languages con tain a Celebes - Malay element and a Papuan element, along with some radical peculiarities derived from the Siao and Sangir Islands farther north, and therefore probably derived from the Philippine Islands.—J. I. Arch.; Wallace; Horsb.