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of the drying paper twicc^daily. Specimens will not dry 

 properly when made into Imndles and enveloped in 

 waterproof coverings ; yet without these coverings the 

 paper carried exposed through this damp country 

 would become a mass of pulp in a few hours. The 

 carriers were careless ; indeed no ordinary care could 

 prevent the packages from coming constantly in 

 contact with the tall grasses and branches of shrubs 

 dripping with wet, that border the narrow tracks lead- 

 ing from one village to another. Three changes of 

 drying paper were in use, but from my constant move- 

 ments it could not be thoroughly dried, although well 

 aired, spread out and hung up in the interior of 

 native houses every night. Henceforth, with the 

 exception of specimens of tender ferns, all other 

 specimens were well withered in the sun and air before 

 they were put into drying paper. To do this, they 

 were carried in open baskets by day and hung near 

 the fires and round the sides of the bure ni sa at night. 

 From the specimens being scattered at night and 

 exposed to the wind by day I lost about 150 numbers 

 (representing as many species of which I had memo- 

 randa) out of a total of 1,150 kinds gathered. 



My next journey was to Naduri, in the province of 

 Macuata, on the north-west coast of Vanua Levu. 

 Walking slowly, collecting all the way and stopping a 

 night at Loma loma, a village in the centre of the 

 island, Naduri was reached on the evening of the 

 second day. On the chart the direct distance from 

 "Wai-wai to Naduri is 18 or 20 miles, but, by the 

 indirect route of the native paths, it is fully 35 miles, 

 On the first day my course lay through the mountains. 

 The path, rough and apparently not much used, ran 

 along streams, up steep ascents and down awkward 



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