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in Dutch New Guinea to collect, but I considered it 

 would cost a lot of money. 



Finally, everything was arranged satisfactorily, Mr. 

 Rothschild behaving, as usual, generously, and I 

 planned to go up the N.E. coast of Papua and go 

 inland from Oro Bay or Mosquito Islands, trying for 

 new Ornithoptera. Then, after doing the Solomons 

 and Santa Cruz, I designed to go inland up the head 

 of the St. Joseph River again and camp at six and 

 seven thousand feet. I made all arrangements to stay 

 away two years, and two new men were engaged for 

 that period. 



I bought the Shamrock, quite the most ambitious 

 vessel I had yet owned. She cost me some 750. 

 I altered her rig from that of a schooner to that of a 

 ketch. Early in 1908 I left Thursday Island for 

 Port Moresby, where I recruited some boys as 

 collectors, and then went up the north-east coast, 

 making a small collection at Collingwood Bay on my 

 way up. 



I stayed about fifteen days at Collingwood Bay, 

 about a mile up the Kimuta River, and did not get 

 anything to make it worth while staying longer. I 

 set nearly a thousand insects and there were about 

 seventy birds skinned. Among lepidoptera I was 

 surprised to get several insects which I had thought 

 only occurred in the mountain districts. 



From Collingwood Bay I made my way to Ora 

 Bay, where I planned to make the next collection. 



