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party, and that would need the German Government's 

 sanction. It is, however, a possible trip of the 

 future. 



Pleased with my work at the Solomon Islands I 

 made my way back to New Guinea and Cooktown, 

 sending forward my collections as usual and taking 

 a spell for some three or four months. 



After this trip to the Solomons I decided to obtain 

 for the trip I contemplated to inland New Guinea a 

 couple of savage dogs, to warn " walk-about " natives 

 that some one was in camp. I had heard that the natives 

 inland on the N.E. coast of Papua were very treacher- 

 ous. But all South Sea Island natives are frightened 

 of a savage dog, and these dogs proved of value in 

 warning off intruders. But as I have said, I rested 

 some three months. 



Then when the fever of travel seized me again I 

 decided to make an expedition to the place under the 

 Stanley Ranges where I had found the female of 

 the Troides chimcera. My purpose was in particular 

 to discover the male of that species. As will be 

 recalled, I had reached the spot previously from a 

 point on the coast called Manna Manna. But now 

 I had heard from a Cingalese native that I could get 

 very much more easily to the same spot by taking off 

 from the coast at a point opposite Yule Island, forty 

 miles west from Manna Manna. 



In 1905 I made my way accordingly from Samarai 

 to Yule Island, and when I arrived at the place which 



