Arrival at Ternate. 515 



teen days before we reached Ternate, a distance of five hun- 

 dred miles only, which, with average winds, could have been 

 done in five days. It was a great treat to me to find myself 

 back again in my comfortable house, enjoying milk to my tea 

 and coffee, fi-esh bread and butter, and fowl and fish daily for 

 dinner. This New Guinea voyage had used us all up, and I 

 determined to stay and recruit before I commenced any fresh 

 expeditions. My succeeding journeys to Gilolo and Batchian 

 have already been narrated, and it now only remains for me to 

 give an account of my residence in Waigiou, the last Papuan 

 territory I visited in search of birds of paradise. 



