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good harvest of insects, and in some respects I was not 

 disappointed. Beetles became much more numerous, and 

 under a thick bed of leaves that had accumulated on some 

 rocks by the side of a forest stream, I found abundance of 

 Carabidse, a family generally scarce in the tropics. The 

 butterflies however disappeared. Two of my servants 

 were attacked with fever, dysentery, and swelled feet, just 

 at the time that the third had left me, and for some days 

 they both lay groaning in the house. When they got a 

 little better I was attacked myself, and as my stores were 

 nearly finished and everything was getting very damp, I 

 was obliged to prepare for my return to Macassar, especi- 

 ally as the strong westerly winds would render the passage 

 in a small open boat disagreeable if not dangerous. 



Since the rains began, numbers of huge millipedes, as 

 thick as one's finger and eight or ten inches long, crawled 

 about everywhere, in the paths, on trees, about the house, 

 — and one morning when I got up I even found one in my 

 bed ! They were generally of a dull lead colour or of a 

 deep brick red, and were very nasty-looking things to be 

 coming everywhere in one's way, although quite harmless. 

 Snakes too began to show themselves. I kilied two of 

 a very abundant species, big-headed and of a bright green 

 colour, which lie coiled up on leaves and shrubs and can 

 scarcely be seen till one is close upon them. Brown 

 snakes got into my net while beating among dead leaves 



