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versing Palestine twice, he purchased a fine Arab horse at Bethlehem in 

 Judea, and mounting the animal headed for the East. 



His horseback ride took him across Syria and Persia. He spent a year 

 at Teheran, the capital of Persia; rode into Turkestan, returned to the 

 region of Muscat, and thence made his way into India. Making Calcutta 

 his headquarters, he commenced an extended series of collecting tours, 

 devoting his attention mainly to the insect fauna of the regions he visited. 

 He thoroughly explored the foot hills and higher slopes of the Himalayas, 

 collecting in Kumaon. Sikkim, Bhotan and in Eurmah and the Malay pen- 

 insula. His explorations in these regions were diversified by expeditions 

 to Java, Celebes and Borneo. 



Returning to Calcutta, he finally set out for a more thorough explora- 

 tion of the islands of the great archipelago. He visited Bali. Sumbawa, 

 Sumba, Ademara, Solor, Timor, Letti, Timor-Laut, Burn, Ambonia, Bat- 

 chian, Ternate and adjacent islands; thence made his way to Humboldt 

 Bay, on the north shore of New Guinea, exploring along the whole north 

 shore in New Guinea, in the German and Dutch possessions, visiting Jo- 

 bie and Schouten Islands, being the first naturalist to systematically ex- 

 plore these localities. 



Humboldt Bay was visited by the Challenger expedition, but the atti- 

 tude of the natives was so threatening that no landing was made. Mr. 

 Doherty induced the captain of a vessel to put him into the inner bay, 

 which is a beautiful land-locked sheet of water flanked by mountains, 

 one of them rising to the elevation of 9000 feet above the tide. The bay 

 is studded with little islands, upon one of which Mr. Doherty disembarked, 

 accompanied by his four trusted Lepchas, or native butterfly hunters, 

 whom he had brought with him from the mountains of India, and who 

 had been the companions of his journeyings for many years. The natives 

 of Humboldt Bay are exceedingly hostile and the lives of the party were 

 in hourly danger. Mr. Doherty succeeded by a clever manoeuvre in in- 

 spiring them with a wholesome awe of his person. 



It happened that among the swarms of natives that came crowding about 

 the adventurers armed with bows and spears there was a man who had 

 been carried to sea in his boat and had been picked up by the crew of a 

 Malay prau 500 miles away from land. During his stay among the Ma- 

 lays this man had acquired a little knowledge of their tongue, and through 

 him Mr. Doherty was enabled to communicate with the savages about 

 him. 



He took occasion to warn them that any act of hostility would lead to 

 terrible consequences, as he was a mighty wizard, and verified the asser- 

 tion by exploding a dymanite cartridge which he had adroitly slipped into 

 a crevice of a great boulder seven feet in height, which lay by the shore 

 and which was torn to pieces by the explosion. The effect of this dis- 

 play of terrific and apparently supernatural power was wholesome. Mr. 

 Doherty made it a point, after he had assured himself that he had created 

 a monstrous impression, not to take with him firearms, lest the natives 



