II. 

 WHERE TO FIND THE BIRDS OF PARADISE. 



you turn to the map of Asia, you will 

 find a number of islands lying to the 

 south of Malacca, and forming a link 

 between Asia and Australia. 

 These islands are in the very midst of the 

 Tropics. The warm Tropical seas bathe their 

 coasts, and dark dense forests cover many of them 

 from the sea-shore to the top of the highest moun- 

 tain. 



Beautiful birds, and insects of wondrous size 

 and rainbow hues, flit among the deep recesses, 

 almost like creatures of another world. The 

 white man rarely visits this far-off land. The 



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