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We had got beyond the range of money, and they received their 

 wages in cloth, tobacco, and knives. We left two hunters behind 

 us with strict injunctions to search for the Ehipidornis and full- 

 plumaged specimens of the Eed Bird of Paradise, and at the same 

 time made arrangements to send Lokman — a lazy rascal who never 

 shot more than six birds a week — in a prau with another hunter 

 to Salwatti Island. They carried a letter to the Eajah of Samati, 

 requesting him to send out natives to try and secure us living 

 specimens of the Twelve-wired Paradise Bird, and intimating our 

 intention of visiting the island on our return. To our friend the 

 Eajah of Waigiou, who, accompanied as usual by his little boy, had 

 come to bid us adieu, we gave some Japanese silk and a few 

 l;)ottles of Hollands. The old gentleman was pleased, but evidently 

 had something on his mind. At last it came out. " Could we 

 give him an old coat, or even a pair of trousers ?" A long course 

 of travel has made me intimate with several kings and other such 

 exalted personages, but most of them have disdained these garments 

 like the rest of their subjects, and we did not carry them among 

 our "trade." A search among our wardrobes was, however, at 

 length successful, and as we slowly moved from our anchorage 

 en route for Geelvink Bay, the Eajah stepped on board his prau 

 amid a burst of tom-tom playing, carrying a pair of Savile Eow 

 inexpressibles beneath his arm. 



