The Lost Island

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 16, 26 July 1892, Page 4

The Lost Island

♦— T '.The island which is reported to have disappeared in an eruption last week, and the name of which seems to have been variously described as Sangi, Sangir, Sanguir, may (says the Lyttelton Times) be classed the principal of the small island as belonging to Celebes. Sanguir ig__or was— situated midway between Celebes and Mindanao, in latitude 3deg 28min N. and longitude 125deg 44min E. The length of the island is given as 40 miles, with an ayerage breadth of 10 miles. Both Sain and feanguir have been noted fpr their active volcanoes, and on 2fid March, 1856, the latter was 'devastated by a great eruption, which killed 2000 people. The Dutch had a settlement on the island, but abandoned it. The people are allied to those of the Menado district^ but speak a peculiar language, which is the same in Sain and ftanguir, T^ e y wear a peculiar costume, consisting of a long robe reaching from the neck to the 'ankles, but this is probably only a form of ceremony. According to Professor Milne^ the islands are within a seismic band ot great intensity, somewhat resembling a horseshoe in form, which curves round to the southward of Borneo, and takes in Java and Sumatra,