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has ever seen, and the account of which I suspect has origi- 

 nated in some mistake. The captain told me he had made 

 a detailed survey of part of the south coast, and if the coal 

 arrived should go away at once to Humboldt Bay, in lon- 

 gitude 141° east, which is the line up to which the Dutch 

 claim New Guinea. On board the tender I found a 

 brother naturalist, a German named Eosenberg, who was 

 draughtsman to the surveying staff. He had brought two 

 men with him to shoot and skin birds, and had been able 

 to purchase a few rare skins from the natives. Among 

 these was a pair of the superb Paradise Pie (Astrapia 

 nigra) in tolerable preservation. They were brought from 

 the island of Jobie, which may be its native country, as it 

 certainly is of the rarer species of crown pigeon (Goura 

 steursii), one of which was brought alive and sold on board. 

 Jobie, however, is a very dangerous place, and sailors are 

 often murdered there when on shore ; sometimes the 

 vessels themselves being attacked. Wandammen, on the 

 mainland opposite Jobie, where there are said to be 

 plenty of birds, is even worse, and at either of these 

 places my life would not have been worth a week's pur- 

 chase had I ventured to live alone and unprotected as at 

 Dorey. On board the steamer they had a pair of tree- 

 kangaroos alive. They differ chiefly from the ground- 

 kangaroo in having a more hairy tail, not thickened at 

 the basCj and not used as a prop ; and by the powerful 



