My collections during our four days' stay at Ke were as follow:--Birds, 13 species; insects, 194 species; and 3 kinds of land-shells.
There are two kinds of people inhabiting these islands--the indigenes, who have the Papuan characters strongly marked, and who are pagans; and a mixed race, who are nominally Mahometans, and wear cotton clothing, while the former use only a waist cloth of cotton or bark.

These Mahometans are said to have been driven out of Banda by the early European settlers.

They were probably a brown race, more allied to the Malays, and their mixed descendants here exhibit great variations of colour, hair, and features, graduating between the Malay and Papuan types.

It is interesting to observe the influence of the early Portuguese trade with these countries in the words of their language, which still remain in use even among these remote and savage islanders.
"Lenco" for handkerchief, and "faca" for knife, are here used to the exclusion of the proper Malay terms.

The Portuguese and Spaniards were truly wonderful conquerors and colonizers.