CHAPTEE XXXIV. 



NEW GUINEA. — DOKEY. 

 (march to JULY 1858.) 



A FTEE my return from Gilolo to Ternate, in March 

 1858, I made arrangements for my long-wished-for 

 voyage to the mainland of New Guinea, where I antici- 

 pated that my collections would surpass those which I had 

 formed at the Aru Islands. The poverty of Ternate in 

 articles used by Europeans was shown, by my searching in 

 vain through all the stores for such common things as 

 flour, metal spoons, wide-mouthed phials, beeswax, a pen- 

 knife, and a stone or metal pestle and mortar. I took with 

 me four servants : my head man Ali, and a Ternate lad 

 named Jumaat (Friday), to shoot ; Lahagi, a steady middle- 

 aged man, to cut timber and assist me in insect-collecting ; 

 and Loisa, a Javanese cook. As I knew I should have to 

 build a house at Dorey, where I was going, I took with 

 me eighty cadjans, or waterproof mats, made of pandanus 

 leaves, to cover over my baggage on first landing, and 

 to help to roof my house afterwards. 



