WHITE — A SIceich of the Life of Samuel White. 



Diade him take them away. After this they learned to bring in 

 the birds, strung through the nostril with rattan, and then they 

 would string five or six small birds on the one piece of rattan, 

 most of them alive and squeaking, fluttering and crawling, till 

 scarcely one in the bunch had any feathers on the neck or back. 

 The great bird was my great quest, and I offered liberally for 

 them, indeed, extravagant prices for freshly killed birds, for I 

 knew that they were rare and shy, and the natives alone knew 

 their haunts, so with a little exertion and a liberal distribution 

 of tobacco I persuaded hundreds of men and boys to go out 

 and hunt in every part of the islands for specimens. I have had 

 as manv "as fifty men come in at once with birds for which I 

 would have to give four pounds worth of goods to ea,.h man, 

 and amongst others there Avould be two or three of the great 

 birds. Towards the end of my visit I had practically all the 

 men of Aru Islands collecting for me. 



