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found a mncli better locality, but it was not yet the season 

 for the Paradise Birds ; and before be bad obtained more 

 than a few of the common sort, the last prau was ready to 

 leave for Ternate, and he was obliged to take the oppor- 

 tunity, as he expected I would be waiting there for him. 



This concludes the record of my wanderings. I next 

 went to Timor, and afterwards to Bouru, Java, and 

 Sumatra, which places have already been described. 

 Charles Allen made a voyage to Ifew Guinea, a short 

 account of which will be given in my next chapter on 

 the Birds of Paradise. On his return he went to the 

 Sula Islands, and made a very interesting collection 

 which served to determine the limits of the zoological 

 group of Celebes, as already explained in my chapter on 

 the natural history of that island. His next journey was 

 to Flores and Solor, where he obtained some valuable 

 materials, which I have used in my chapter on the natural 

 history of the Timor group. He afterwards went to Coti 

 on the east coast of Borneo, from which place I was very 

 anxious to obtain collections, as it is a quite new locality 

 as far as possible from Sarawak, and I had heard very 

 good accounts of it. On his return thence to Sourabaya 

 in Java, he was to have gone to the entirely unknown 

 Sumba or Sandal- wood Island. Most imfortunately, how- 

 ever, he was seized with a terrible fever on his arrival at 

 Coti, and, after lying there some weeks, was taken to 



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