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slope and saw three homerus and a few blossoms on a bush. I 

 climbed up but they were out of reach, and after sitting for 

 some time with my mouth watering, I gave up and started 

 home. When I had gone a mile I stopped and began to reflect. 

 I had found homerus at last. Why not stick to them until 

 dark, so back I went. The same three were around the tree, 

 and I sat far below in the path watching and slapping mos- 

 quitoes. I think I hypnotized them, for after a while one came 

 floating slowly down through the air. I saw he was approach- 

 ing the road, so ran to be just beneath him. When he reached 

 the road he followed it for some 30 yards, I behind him, and 

 at last he dipped down and I had him. In two hours I caught 

 five more. I then had to return as the way was long and road 

 rough. I came in done up but happy. The next day I was too 

 sore to move, but the second da}^ we packed up our camp cots 

 and satchels and went up into the pass to a small cluster of 

 negro huts within 1% miles of our locality. We hired a hut 

 at $1.00 a week, got servant 25 cents per day, chickens 25 cents 

 a piece, bread, vegetables and eggs, and set in housekeeping. 

 The morning we arrived I caught fine male Pap. thersites, the 

 only one I got. We kept on up to my locality and got before 

 4 o'clock 6 more homerus. The next day, Sunday, July 13, we 

 got 15, and July 14 got 6 ; on 15th it rained heavily and we 

 got but. 2. It rained every day and nearly all the time, but we 

 caught them between showers. On night of July 15 we had 

 36 — no females so far. Next morning my brother went down 

 to Bath for mail, I up mountain alone, homerus hardly appeared 

 before 8.30. I timed them this morning to see how often they 

 appeared. Here is record. One at 8.40, first seen ; one at 

 8.45, one 8.50, one 8.52, one 8.55, one 9.C0, one 9.02, one 9.03, 

 another 9.03, one 9.05, one 9.08, one 9.10, one 9.22, when I 

 left to go to a better spot, as these were all out of reach and 

 kept on out of sight. The mountain side was slippery from 

 rain. I slipped and my heel was torn off and shortly after had 

 another slip. Fell only two feet, but sat on sharp stake which 

 penetrated my trousers, side of my leg, four inches up into my 

 rectum and broke off. Of course for the first second I was 

 sick, but got stick out easily and started back ; lost consider- 



