22 Tin: .\Mi:Hf('.i.\ Mrsi:rM jocixai. 



1)( ■(•()! lie SI) soft el led 1 iv liciiii;' liuricd with t lie llr-li in llir (hiiii]) ^.-ind ill, 'it diiIv 

 two skulls and a lew other j)arts ot skeletons were a\ailal)le. 



The Albatross finally left Manila in late October and alter a three days' 

 tiip icached Siliattick Inland, l)rilish North PioiT.eo. Ilei'e 1 had my fir>t 

 experience colleetini;" in a tr()i)ical forest. (Ireat white cainphoi'-wood trees, 

 some stretching up nearly two Inuidred feel, and the " kayu liajali," or 

 kiiiii'-Iree, e:|uall>' as hiuii, were luniii- with \ iiie^ aiul creeix'rs forniinu a 

 tangled network. Talnis were interspersed here and there throujihout the 

 forest and hanana trees were fi'rowin^' in e\"ery little clearing'. Bird notes 

 CDuld 1)1' heai'd. snlxhicd Wccaiise of the ui'eat heiu'ht (»f the ti'ees and sonic- 

 tiiues drowned in the shrillinji of myriads of locusts and beetles. 



The Alt)atross then \isited the Xorth Celehes. In I.inilie .^tiait I 

 collected a nninher of monkeys, a piu' and one of the rare ursine ])halanffers 

 together with a good series of birds among which were four large hornbill.s. 

 Another stop, Ternate, was interesting as the place where many of the 

 paradise birds from New (iuinea are marketed and sent to Paris and London 

 for millinery ])urposes. 



We got to Makassar for (hristmas and were most hos])itably receixcd 

 by the (io\'ernoi' and the l']ui'opean I'esidents of the town. It was here that 

 I met His Hveellency, Haron (^uarles de (^uarles, G()\ernor of the Celebes, 

 who has a splendid nnisenm of his own illustrating tlie anthropology and 

 ethnology of the M:ist Indian natixc tribes. He became intei'e<te(l in our 

 work and \(>ry generously presented to the American Museum a collecticn 

 of ethnological material, otherwise impossible to obtain. 



The .Mbatross returned to the I'hilippine Islands in .!anu;:ry and e\- 

 <-hanging the l''ilij)in() members of the crew for white sailors, ])ut out again 

 in hea\y weather for Formosa and the Loo-Choo Islands, and then made 

 straight for Nagasaki, Japan. Here we were receixcd with iii'ert coi-diality 

 l)y the (io\"ernor and the American ( Onsul and obtained information result- 

 ing in a trip to Shimonoseki where ])ermission was secured from cfhcials 

 of the Oriental Whaling ( Ompany to \isit their stations for the purpose of 

 studying and collecting ( etacean material. 



Returning to Nagasaki, I definitely arranged to lea\(' th.e .\lbatross and 

 t'ventuall\ l'orwai-de(| much of my material to Shimonoseki. h'irst I w<'nt 

 to the whaling station at Shimidzu on the island of Shikoku. So few wliales 

 were taken at this station, h()W(>ver, that I transferred to Oshima, where 

 were taken a splendid blue or sulphur-bottom whale 7'.> feet in length, the 

 jaws alone of which were nineteen feet long, a sei or sardine whah; 40 feet 

 long and a killer of 2(i feet length. After being carefully crated these were 

 ])Ut on board a schooner and sent to .Shimonoseki, wheiict' they were trans- 

 ferred to the llambnru-.\merican linei- .\i-agonia for New 'S ork. \\ itb 



