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fever, of abandoning New Guinea, and before I left 

 Nadi I had made arrangements for my camp to be 

 shifted to the Trobriand Islands. When I arrived at 

 Cooktown I was very ill and found it difficult for 

 some time to take any nourishment, but still I only 

 remained there sufficiently long to send on my col- 

 lections to the Hon. Walter Rothschild, and then I 

 took the Myrtle back to Samarai. 



