20 Saccharum spontaneum with silvery plumes plentiful also on raod sides and old cultivated grounds. Malino is used as a week-end holiday resort by the wealthier Europeans and Chinese of Makassar. There is an accomodation house set in spacious grounds planted with pines, silver wattle, young Grevillea robusta and other trees and shrubs. And of course there is a bright green swimming pool. April 11th. Left Makassar at 5 PM on the "Van Imhoff" with 9 coolies, 2 cooks mates, 2 months stores for 20 woolies and some few extra articles of supplies for besides cargo and personnel from Sourabaya. Have in all about 50 tons of cargo on board. An interesting sight on the Makassar waterfront are scores of native-owned, two masted sailing craft of about 30 tons which ply along the coasts and as far as Singapore. Have on board about 20 first class passengers including Jacobs, the new assistant manager resident for North New Guinea, going to his station at Manokwari; a young Russian radio-man (Fedoroff) going to Babo, the usual small bunch of commercial travellers (for Ambon), a Pentecostal missionary with wife and four big children going to Ambon and later New Guinea, and a Dutch Protestant mission sister bound for Lemri. Various grades and shades of colored people occupy other classes of accomodation and in the fourth and lowest is another Pentecostal missioner, a single man (Alberta or Saskatchewan) bound for Ambon. April 14th. Reached Ambon at about 7.30 AM after a smooth and uneventful passage. Ambon is the administrative centre for all of the Indies east of Celebes and Timor. It is a very old town, small but flourishing at present as the import centre for development in New Guinea. It is being developed as a navy and commercial airport and armed with 15" guns for defence. 800 extra soldiers are said to be stationed