Original edition of von Rosenberg scientific account on Gorontalo, nowadays a province of Indonesia. In 1862, Rosenberg was appointed by the government of the Dutch Indies to undertake explorative journeys in the Gorontalo area of which this book is the result.
Rosenberg a.o. visits Modelido, the lake of Limbotto, the hot sources of Ayer-Panas, Kwandang, Boné, Toelabollo and the Togean islands. On pages 123-6 the language of the inhabitants is discussed, followed by a vocabulary on pages 126-134. Three drawings of Gorontalo subjects after photographs by Rosenberg (?) are preserved in the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden (Maronier, Pictures of the Tropics, p. 64). Good copy of one of the first scientific descriptions of Gorontalo. Bastin & Brommer 614; Cat. KITLV p. 30; Landwehr, Coloured Plates 417; Tiele, Bibl. 937.