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Title: Ornithological miscellany
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Rowley, George Dawson, 1822-1878 Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill Walther, T., lithographer Allen, Edgar W., lithographer Smith, J., lithographer Erxleben, J., lithographer Hanhart, Michael, printer of plates Hanhart, N, printer of plates Chase, Robert William, former owner. DSI Mackintosh, Duncan Robert, former owner. DSI Mintern Bros., printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Trübner and Co., Bernard Quaritch, R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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is from a fine photograph of the spot. The Chinese kampong, orquarter, contains about 1000 Chinese ; the rest of the population is about3000. On Thursday, the 26th of August 1875, the chief place of theMinahassa, in the north of Celebes, Menado, was attacked by a band ofmutineers. In the morning, at 8 oclock, there arrived from the west three nativeprauws in the roadstead of Menado, and forty-eight men came ashore, all inwhite clothes, with red girdles and turbans, and armed with lances and swords. After having said a short prayer, the band entered the village, thewhole time dancing and shouting. All this did not much awaken theattention of the inhabitants, as it is common in Menado that the rajahsbelonging to the district should pay a visit to the Resident in this style.But soon the intention of the visitors became apparent; for they killed andwounded several persons in the market. They then tried to surprise thesmall fort which Menado possesses, but were driven back by the soldiers
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