318 EXCURSIONS IN NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA. Cnuap. XI. 
the sole occasions on which I could add to my collections, whilst on these 
barren sands. Only two of these trips afforded incidents worth relating. 

Night adventure with Alligator. 




















The first, which was made to the interior of the wooded island of 
Catua, was not a very successful one. We were twelve in number, all 
