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make a sudden outward sheer and lie cannot quickly 

 disengage himself from the tracking- rope by slipping 

 the toggle, which connects it to the tracking band on 

 the shoulder, he is very likely to be dragged over the 

 cliff. A sullen plunge, and in the river by which he 

 has made his livelihood he finds his grave. Bodies are 

 frequently seen floating about, but they are carefully 

 avoided l)y the natives. This crew, with an assistant 

 collector sent out from home, a German named Krichel- 

 dorfF, and my cook-interpreter and bo}^, made with 

 myself twenty-one hands on board — close packing for 

 such a small craft — but before going very far I was 

 oblio-ed to increase the number. 



I now had the lockers and shelves in the cabin 

 well stocked with boxes of a suitable size for holding 

 such specimens as I hoped to obtain, and these, with 

 about seventy butterfly nets for distribution among the 

 local collectors I intended to engage, chemicals, medi- 

 cine, botanical drying paper, papers for Lepidoptera, 

 and tins for Coleoptera, took up a good deal of room, 

 and the remainder was taken up by tinned provisions, 

 photographic apparatus, clothing, and my guns and 

 ammunition. The firearms consisted of a 12- and 

 a 4-bore shot guns, a small collecting gun, and a Win- 

 chester repeating rifle. Bamboo tracking ropes of 

 great length and several sizes were coiled away in the 



