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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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116 ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS

the Sangi Islands, &c.; and at this moment he is in Europe, and occupied in
writing a book on Celebes in general.
Mr. van Musschenbroek was always remarkably ready to sustain and
help every scientific traveller in the Dutch possessions—he himself
being a very good zoologist, botanist, and linguist, and therefore knowing
the wants of such travellers by his own experience. ‘The Leiden
Museum possesses a good many of his collections made in the East; and
Mr. von Rosenberg, indeed, could not do better than attach his name to a
bird of the rich Papuan fauna.

As this bird has been named after Mr. Musschenbroek, a woodcut of
his residence (a large house in the town of Menado, situated on the right, in
the Chinese quarter) is here given, with an account of the attack upon it.
It is from a fine photograph of the spot. The Chinese "kampong," or
quarter, contains about 1000 Chinese ; the rest of the population is about
3000.

" On Thursday, the 26th of August 1875, the chief place of the
Minahassa, in the north of Celebes, Menado, was attacked by a band of
mutineers."
" In the morning, at 8 o'clock, there arrived from the west three native
prauws in the roadstead of Menado, and forty-eight men came ashore, all in
white clothes, with red girdles and turbans, and armed with lances and swords.
" After having said a short prayer, the band entered the village, the
whole time dancing and shouting. All this did not much awaken the
attention of the inhabitants, as it is common in Menado that the rajahs
belonging 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 and
wounded several persons in the market. They then tried to surprise the
small fort which Menado possesses, but were driven back by the soldiers
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THE CHINESE KAMPONG, OR QUARTER IN MENADO, CELEBES.
(THE DUTCH RESIDENT'S HOUSE IS ON THE RIGHT.)


ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. 117

with shots, and now proceeded to the Resident's house, which some years
since was left without military protection.
" The Resident, Mr. van Musschenbroek, was not at home, but in the
Government Office. About thirty men entered the house, and destroyed
everything in their way. The doors,
hastily closed, did not keep them back
a long time ; and no doubt they would have killed Mrs. van Musschenbroek
and her children, had not this lady contrived to keep them a short while
aloof by her calmness and firmness. Soon fourteen soldiers from the fort
arrived. The band now turned against these, but were driven back and took
to their heels to reach the prauws, two of which had been taken in the
meanwhile by a Dutch captain. Now the-inhabitants of Menado began to
pursue the rebels, and also captured the last prauw. ‘Twenty of the forty-
eight men were killed, and all the others made prisoners.
eight men were killed, and all the others made prisoners.
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