The northern series of the Serawatti Islands contains, besides a few smaller islands, four larger ones, Roma, Demme, Nibs, and Scree. The three last mentioned contain active volcanoes, which constitute the connecting link between the volcanoes of the Sunda Islands and those of the 111alaccaa. Boma is about 24 miles in circumference, and has en anchorage on the south and another on the north-west coast. The surface is a succession of bills and valleys. The island is covered with trees, except on the south coast, which alone is inhabited and cultivated. The inhabitants have made some progress in civilisation. The nrticles of export are wax, amdal-wood, edible birds'-ncets, and great quantities of tortoiso-shell. Damma is mountainous, but not very high, except the Peak of Demme, near the north-east coast, which always emits smoke : at its base them are hot-springs. It is not very fertile, and the inhabitants live mainly on the produce of their cocoa-nut and sago plantations, cultivating only a little maize, yams, and sweet potatoes. Game, wild hogs, and umauy kinds of birds nre very abundant. Nile is a round mass of rocks rising with a steep ascent from a deep sea. Them is a volcano on the east side, and on the north side an anchorage for small vessels. Its productions for export are bogs, fowls, and cocoa-nute, which are brought to Banda by the islanders themselves. Sim°, or Serra, is_likowise a ma of voloanle rocks: in 1693 there was • terrible eruption, in whisk • part of the mountain subsided, and a lake was formed filled with burning matter. The population Is smelt Among the Inhabit acts of these islands are several converts to Christiaulty.
The Troimakr Islands are situated between V 30' and 8° 20' S. lat., 131' and 132' 20' E. long., and consist of one largo iehuol, Timorlaut, and three of moderate size, Cerra, Larrat, and Vordate, and a great number of smaller islands. The channels between these 'sleuth con tain many ttepang-banks. Tisiorlasa extends nearly 90 miles from south to north, and is 40 miles wide in the broadest part. The surface is rather undulating than hilly, and it Is surrouoded either by reefs or by mud-banks: which extend to a considerable distance from the shores. The natives are very iuhospitable to stranger...
Cerra, which lies west of Timorlaut, is very populous. The inhabit ants are the traders of this group of islands, and export their cattle and other domestio animals, and also tortoise-shell and trepang to Banda. Larne, a considerable island, to the north of Timorlaut, resemble it in surface. rordute, north-east of larrat, contains lofty bills, and is described as very fertile, and rich in all the products of these islands, except cattle. It is very populous. Sago-trees and cocoa-nut trees are abundant.
The inhabitants of the Tenimber Islands, like the inhabitants of Matti, might be taken for Euroleau.. if their complexion was lighter. Their dwelling*, are from 20 to 30 feet long, from 12 to 15 feet wide, and divided into several rooms. They have vessel., about 50 feet long and from 10 to 12 feet wide, which are constructed with great skill, thengh without any iron. They pay also great attention to the culti vation of the ground.
The most eastern group of the Lesser Sunda Islands are the Arno foloods, which consist of one largo island, called Kobrore (70 miles long and about 30 miles wide on an average), and two other considerable islands, Trento, and Mykor, which lie west of Rohrer°, and are divided from it by • narrow strait. To the north of Kobrore and 3Iykor are eight or ten islands of moderate size, of which Waninicr, Wokan, and Iledyier are the most remarkable. All these islands are moderately elevated, and they have a slightly undulating surface. The ehanuele which divide them from one another are narrow, and the tides in them are very irregular. Cultivation Is limited to the planting of sago-trees and the raising of yams. Rice is imported from Banda. Of domestic animals there are only hogs, goats, and fowls. The bird of paradise is found only here and in New Guinea ; the feathera are an article of export. The principal articles of export are trepang, mother-of-pearl ahelle and tortoise-shells. The imports are coarse cotton-cloth of different colours, coarse cutlery, copper-wire, coarse China goods, arrack, anis-spirits, gongs, very email red corals, and some other minor articles. Foreign vessels visiting the ialands go to Dobo, a port un the island of Waminer. (ARROO ISLANDS.]