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the naked Nagas. Great collection of motlis made witli our invented baits. 

 Concerts of howling monke\-s. Needham and his government of the wild tribes. 

 Lancashire miners at Margherita. Canadian oil-well prospectors. Farewell to 

 Hartert. I leave for Calcutta in December. Write a paper on Assam butterflies 

 for the Asiatic Society." 



1889. 



" Expedition to Lower Teuasserim, Mergui, ami Tavoy. The Karens. Elephant 

 ridiug, numerous tigers. Incursions of outlaws from .Siamese frontier. Expedition 

 to Naga Hills. Second visit to Margherita. Difficnlt journey up the Dhausiri 

 Valley in a wilderness of mud. Reach Koliima, the cajntal of the Naga Hills, 

 (iurklui ontjiosts. Naga tribes — Angami, KackJia, and Thota — noble savages. 

 Trip to Khonoma and Kenoma and the Zulla Valley. Great catch of Armandia 

 Udderdalii. Trip to Manipur. Narrow escape from death in stone-trajjs and various 

 pitfalls. Savage conduct of Manipuris toward subject tribes. Subsequent massacre 

 in Manipur. Return to the Assam plains and Calcutta. Write paper on 

 Teuasserim lepidoptera." 



1890. 



" Third visit to Ferak, Malay Peuinsula (January — February). Then to Rangoon 

 and the independent Karen conntry. Abandoned sanitarium of Thaudanng. Great 

 catch of Stirtophtlialma loidsa at Petichaung. Lose nerve from constant presence of 

 tigers. Expedition to Mandalay and up the Irawaddi. Difficult journey to the 

 Ruby Mines. Bernardmyo and the soldiers there— fine fellows. Great collection 

 of beetles. Nearly shot by mistake for Buchanan the F.O. Dangerous journey to 

 Momeit. Down the Irawaddi to Prome, the most charming river-trip in the world. 

 Singapore to Batavia. Visit to Soekaboemi, the Dutch health resort, aud to 

 Buitenzorg, the Governor General's palace. Failure in collecting. Then to Kroe, 

 iu Sumatra. Trip to Miva, in the mountains, and to Marang, on the coast. 

 Enormous surf. Trip to the little-known island of Engauo, where I catch many 

 new insects. Return to Singapore. Fourth trip to Perak ; 30,tJ0U beetles taken. 

 Leave Penang for the tributary state of Renang, in Siam, governed by Sinkoug, a 

 Chinese Raja who owns the whole country. Impossible to cut a canal across the 

 Isthmus of Kra. SimUarity of Siamese and Burmese. Visits to Maldwini and 

 Victoria." 



1891. 



" Return to ('alcutta. Write papers on Sumba, Sumbawa, and Engauo, on new 

 Lycaenidae and on the anatomy of the Danaidar. Leave for Java with four men. 

 Eruption of Sm^ru (my Lepchas lose their reputation for veracity, because they tell 

 of flying fish, sea on fire, smoking mountains). Trip to Pulo Laut, bad weather 

 there. Then to Banjermasiu, Borneo. Drag canoes up the Martapura river and 

 shoot the rajnds down it. Serious illness of our whole party. Miss the Surabaya 

 steamer, which leaves ten days before its time. Moths at Suugai Tabok. Chedi 

 has cholera. Departure for Surabaya, Java. Tungkyitbo in hospital there. His 

 death at sea. Reach Macassar, Celebes, and all recover. Great catch of butterflies 

 in Maru and Bugis country. Robbed at Petunuang Asn6. Trip to Cayi. Scenery 

 at Bantunurang. Leave for Sumbawa. Ride on horseback over the Donggo 



