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isis and many other beautiful species characteristic to that fauna. 

 Comparatively little collecting was done by himself. The natives 

 soon become adept and such things as blumei, isis, etc., are raised 

 by them and they are brought to the collector either in the larval, 

 pupal or adult state. After a sojourn of six months he wandered 

 on to Borneo; but his stay in this land was very short as the 

 material received was limited and unsatisfactory. The natives, 

 in the part of the island where he found hinself, were unaccus- 

 tomed to collecting and were also a very dangerous race of people. 

 He made his escape from the little tribes, after being wounded by a 

 poisoned arrow. He and his companion — a native of Mauritius — 

 got away by a hair's breadth escape in a small boat and made their 

 way to St. Lucia Bay, where they were picked up by a tramp 

 steamer bound for the Philippine uplands. His Borneo trip was 

 an absolute failure and he found himself on the way to the Philip- 

 pines willy-nilly. This field was also disappointing. From there 

 he went to the Island of Palawan especially for Ornithoptera 

 trojana but after he explained the situation to me I understood 

 why trojana is so very rare. It is found only in the Island of 

 Palawan and on this is situated the Government prison. Their 

 favorite spot is a waterfall in the enclosure of the prison and a most 

 diligent search in all other directions would not disclose one single 

 specimien of the much wanted insect. The prison grounds were 

 closed to him and the Commandant could not be prevailed upon 

 to allow him to go inside of the grounds. It seems that a certain 

 prominent collector with whom I had a personal interview 

 several years ago, abused the privileges to such an extent that the 

 Commandant thereafter refused the admittance of any person 

 collecting insects. 



He went back to Manila and there met a planter from the 

 Kei Islands who offered him a position as overseer on his plantation. 

 The wages being fair and, as he was worn out with travels, he 

 accepted the position and remained in Kei Islands for fifteen 

 mionths. The natives are a primitive people, easily controlled, 

 but with a great many nasty habits which are most repulsive 

 to the educated European. They are nude but for the hip cloth. 

 At certain times of the year they gather for a dance in which they 

 make a circle of men and women alternating. They place a pot 

 in the center of the circle into which the women expectorate 



