A Clin imiali Hoy in the Tropics. 39 



all the lime on the natural history of the country, and sellinj^ 

 his collections to pay his expenses. From Ceylon he went to 

 Calcutta. He had letters to the Indian Museum and also to 

 British officers, who invited him to go on elephants to visit 

 the Queen of Burma ; each elephant had a retinue of seventy 

 men to cut paths and drive away tigers. An elephant can go 

 almost any where, but a path nuist be cut, as the bamboos 

 and other vegetation would sweep the rider off, if not cut out 

 of the way. They were royally received by her Majesty, the 

 Queen, who chewed tobacco and expectorated into little 

 dishes, and passed it around for her guests to taste, as a great 

 mark of esteem ! Dohert}' says, " I made up my mind I would 

 die before tasting it." On his return to Calcutta, he obtained 

 permission from the government to visit the Andaman 

 Islands, and was kindly received at the penal settlements on 

 Chri.stmas, 1884. In attempting to go over to another one of 

 these islands in a small boat, he was fired on by the natives, 

 and his Chinese boatman killed with a poisoned arrow, but he 

 landed, and with a liberal use of presents, made friends of the 

 natives, and secured fine collections of the insect fauna. He 

 went to the Nicobar Islands, and afterwards again to the 

 Andamans. In 1885 he collected butterflies at Madras and 

 Bombay. In 1886 he visited Benares to write up the old 

 wares, china and brasses, and the old idols in the Mogul 

 temples, for the London Times. Writing from Sarti, he says, 

 " I came here on an elephant with a guard of Sepoj's, and am 

 catching lots of butterflies. I never saw bamboo used for 

 such a variety of purpo.ses as here. A Coolie is now boiling 

 my tea in a joint of it. These people use it for most every 

 thing." While in Benares he engaged some Lepchas, who are 

 the mo.st skillful butterfly catchers in the world. He says, "the 

 two pests of this country are tigers and the deadly cobra, and 

 I. am always obliged to keep a bold face while in the jungle, 

 so as to set a good example to my native collectors. There is 

 not so much danger from tigers, when one stands erect with a 

 butterfly net in his hand, but when we are stooping, raking in 

 the leaves, we are in great danger." He came down the 

 Mala}' peninsula (coming overland from Calcutta to Penang), 

 where he was laid up, covered with sores and boils on the 

 soles of his feet, so he could not walk. When he recovered, 

 he went to the island of Java, and from there to Celebes, and 



