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met his nostrils that was hard to endure. On investigation he 

 found some dead bodies in stages of decomposition on a sort of a 

 raft. He moved his camp and swung his hammock far enough 

 away to escape these very disgusting natives and their more 

 disgusting habits. The natives do not seem to mind this stench. 

 He brought with him a large supply of canned goods and lived 

 as well as conditions would allow. Only once a month a small 

 steamer would land to supply him with provisions. The natives 

 were entirely nude — had never seen a white man and gathered 

 in large hordes to look the phenomenon over. By experiences 

 gathered in other dangerous countries he found out how it was 

 best to get along with these people and although they were canni- 

 bals he managed each time to escape with his life and often made 

 fast friends with the natives. Clothes were an unknown quantity 

 and handkerchiefs there were none. Often girls of sixteen to 

 eighteen years of age looked a very disgusting sight due to the 

 lack of handkerchiefs. After long journeys with very small 

 financial resiilts, he at least found something which he was after. 

 Although connected with untold trouble, he succeeded in getting 

 a number of paradisea, also a few tithonus. It certainly must 

 be a majestic sight to see these butterflies sweeping down from 

 the side of a mountain to the fiat land, to feed toward evening. 

 In the reed grass, covering the flat land, grows a plant which stands 

 above the reeds a foot or so. This has a small yellow flower, 

 the desired food of the butterfly which he wanted to capture. 

 He built a platform with the reed grass covering him and when a 

 butterfly came along he swept a net about thirty inches in diame- 

 ter. It takes a strong man to handle such a net. They also 

 feed in the early morning but it took from four to flve hours to 

 reach that place, so there was only the evening left in which he 

 could do his work. One day, going through the forest he came 

 to a tree the bark of which the natives use for rope. Upon 

 closer examination of the bark, he found on loosening it that 

 it contained many species of Charaxes, Limenitis, Tenaris, etc., 

 ' so numerous that one coiild hardly insert a pin without impaling 

 one. He never had known where or how to find these species 

 but upon his discovery he had the natives tear away the bark 

 and took many specimens to his delight. All these species were 

 never encountered in open country. He also found that red. 



