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not spontaneously clothe themselves and go to church on 

 the appearance of a missionary in their midst. They must 

 be taught to do these things. Mr. Gunther was married 

 to a native wife, and I believe that, to a very great extent, 

 his want of success was due to this. There can be no 

 doubt that the native does not have so much respect for a 

 European who is related to him by marriage as for one who 

 successfully resists the charms of the native beauties. 



It was evident that Mangarang had not suffered as we 

 had in Talisse for want of rain, for the long grass was quite 

 green and there was an abundance of flowering herbs and 

 shrubs in the avenues of coco-nut palms, pala trees {Myris- 

 fica) , nangka trees {Artocarjius), and waringins. There were 

 simply thousands of large convolvulus and hibiscus flowers 

 on all sides, and in some places the ground was covered 

 with the yellow flowers of a species of water-melon called 

 sambiki by the Malays. As a botanist my opportunities 

 there were immense, but then my zeal as a zoologist was 

 also excited by the hundreds of brilliant butterflies and 

 moths that were visiting the flowers, and the slugs and 

 snails that were enjoying their herbaceous repast in the 

 warm damp vegetation. I believe I did right in devoting 

 the short space of time at my disposal to the zoological 

 world, for the shore plants of these small islands are 

 usually the same throughout a given area, and the botanist 

 is very seldom rewarded with anything new or very rare 

 unless he journeys to the mountains and hills of the interior. 

 Insects and land mollusca, on the other hand, often manage 

 to exist in remote islands, which would immediately or 

 rapidly succumb in the struggle for existence in larger 

 islands or continental lands. 



My great prize in Mangarang was a large clumsy 

 brown butterfly {Liphyra hrassolis) with a thick heavy body 

 like a moth. Professor Westwood informs me that some 



