To Ternate. 551 



prau was ready to leave for Ternate, and he was obliged to 

 take the opportunity, as he expected I would be waiting- 

 there for him. 



This concludes the record of my wanderings. I next 

 went to Timor, and afterward to Bouru, Java, and Sumatra, 

 which places have already been described. Charles Allen 

 made a voyage to New Guinea, a short account of which 

 will be given in my next chapter on the birds of paradise. 

 On his return he went to the Sula Islands, and made a very 

 interesting collection, which served to determine the limits 

 of the zoological group of Celebes, as already explained in 

 my chapter on the natural history of that island. His next 

 journey was to Flores and Solor, where he obtained some 

 valuable materials, which I have used in my chapter on the 

 natural history of the Timor group. He afterward went to 

 Coti, on the east coast of Borneo, from which place I was 

 very anxious to obtain collections, as it is a quite new local- 

 ity as far as possible from Sarawak, and I had heard very 

 good accounts of it. On his return thence to Sourabaya^, in 

 Java, he was to have gone to the entirely unknown Sumba 

 or Sandal-wood Island. Most unfortunately, however, he 

 was seized with a terrible fever on his arrival at Coti, and, 

 after lying there some weeks, was taken to Singapore in a 

 very bad condition, where he arrived after I had left for 

 England. When he recovered he obtained employment in 

 Singapore, and I lost his services as a collector. 



The three concluding chapters of my work will treat of 

 the Birds of Paradise, the Natural History of the Papuan Isl- 

 ands, and the Races of Man in the Malay Archipelago. 



