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Wandesi ; no paths there. Reach Dorey and go to Andai. Dutch missionaries and 

 native converts. Slave trade encouraged by the missionaries. Collecting in the 

 island of Ron. Sickness at Andai. Failure to reach Hatam." 



1893. 



" Dangerous expedition to Jobie. We suffer from Beri-Beri. Leave island 

 and return to Ternate by slow degrees. Then to Amboyna, Blacassar, Surabaya, 

 Singapore, Penaug aud Calcutta. Return to Europe by Ceylon and Briudisi. Stay 

 in Italy, Switzerland, Frauce and England. Reach New York July 20th." 



Doherty remained at home for about two years, recruiting his health and 

 energy. He then came to England, aud, among others, paid me a visit in Tring. 

 It was then that Mr. Rothschild and I caused him to develop a new phase of his 

 zoological career by inducing him to collect also birds. When we travelled together 

 in 1888, Doherty often vowed in jest that he would never, never collect birds, seeing 

 the trouble 1 had with guns and ammunition at the Customs, the exjJenses I had 

 with buying powder aud shot in Calcutta, the heavy parcels, the endless work 

 with skinning, drying, labelling — certainly much more trouble than in collecting 

 lepidoptera in pa]iers, and beetles. Now, however, we complained about the great 

 opportunities he would lose to increase ornithological science in going to partially 

 or entirely unexplored islands without collecting birds. He soon became interested, 

 and every ornithologist knows how many imjMrtant ornithological discoveries 

 he made. 



Doherty 's first ctape on his second great Eastern expedition was Java, where 

 he ascended Mt. Arjuno. He made a small bird collection, among which was a 

 remarkable new bird, which I called Stasiasticus montis (Nov. Zool. 1896, p. 540), 

 and collected moths, which he sent to the British Museum. 



He then explored Bali (which had only been touched by Wallace), Sumbawa, 

 Lombok, Satonda, Sumba, discovering new birds on every one of these islands 

 (see Nov. Zool. 1896, where also passages from letters from Doherty are fre(|nently 

 quoted). 



It is remarkable how valuable bird collections the traveller sent home, although 

 the skins (all made by Indian servants) were not good, aud although he complained 

 a good deal of the trouble it caused him. I quote from his first letter : " All the 

 same I am horribly discouraged about birds. In the first place, the authorities give 

 me no end of trouble about my guns. If they would simply make me pay half the 

 value of the guns, and give me a paper permitting me to take them anywhere, I 

 should be delighted. As it is, they have only as yet charged me about three pounds ; 

 but I lost three days in Java over the ' invoer ' and ' uitvoer ' business, and I shudder 

 to think what I paid in carriage hire. It is particularly bad in Soerabaya, as all the 

 authorities live miles from the city, and nobody seems to know who is responsible 

 for guns. And this worry will be continued throughout my travels in ' Netherlands 

 Indie,' though I hope it is particularly bad in Java. Now I speak both Dutch aud 

 Malay very well, and I never lose my temper in my dealings with the authorities. 

 What may happen to a man with a quick temper and no knowledge of Dutch and 

 Malay I cannot for a moment imagine. The funny part is that 1 am very fond of 

 the Dutch personally {not as officials I), and most of these people that worried me 

 so were my old friends — and in the course of these endless negotiations I made 



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