Tondano

It is placed on a small level spot, from which there is an abrupt wooded descent down to the beautiful lake of Tondano, with volcanic mountains beyond.

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After dinner and coffee, the Controlleur went on to Tondano, and

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The plateau of Tondano is chiefly inhabited by people nearly as white as the Chinese, and with very pleasing semi-European features.

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Tondano, who was returning home from one of his monthly tours, and who had agreed to act as my guide and companion on the journey.

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One had been left at Tondano with fever and diarrhoea, and the other was attacked at Langówan with inflammation of the chest, and as his case looked rather bad I had him sent back to Menado.

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The descent is a long one, so that I estimated the village to be not more than 1,500 feet above the sea, yet I found the morning temperature often 69°, the same as at Tondano at least 600 or 700 feet higher.

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A few days after the earthquake I took a walk to Tondano, a large village of about 7,000 inhabitants, situated at the lower end of the lake of the same name.

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Controlleur of Tondano, and the next morning at nine, left in a small boat for the head of the lake, a distance of about ten miles.

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From Lotta we had an almost continual ascent for six miles, which brought us on to the plateau of Tondano at an elevation of about

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Tondano, with houses and verandahs gleaming in spotless whiteness among green spaces and luxuriant trees, appears a typical Dutch town, incongruous but picturesque.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings