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and I preserved the skins of four of them on our 

 homeward voyage. 



About two hundred butterflies, moths, and 

 other insects were also obtained. 



The most interesting islands visited during our 

 sojourn in the West Indies were Martinique, 

 famous for its volcanic eruptions in 1902, and the 

 Cayman Islands, which have been but seldom 

 visited by a natiiralist. 



Third Voyage. 



It was not until the autumn of 1905 that I again 

 set out in the " ValhaUa " on my last and, 

 perhaps, most interesting voyage. 



On this cruise we had a somewhat larger party, 

 for besides Lord Crawford, the Hon. Walter 

 Lindsay, Dr. A. Dean, and myself, Mr. E. G. B. 

 Meade-Waldo was invited to accompany us for 

 the purpose of collecting insects, and thus I was 

 able to devote my whole time to birds, mammals, 

 fishes, and reptiles, with the consequence that 

 examples of several new species were obtained. 



We sailed from Cowes on 8th November, 1905, 

 and, after calling at Las Palmas, ran down amongst 

 the South Atlantic Islands to the Cape of Good 

 Hope ; thence northwards through the in- 

 hospitable waters of the Mozambique Channel to 

 Madagascar and the little-known islands which 

 lie to the north-west. After visiting the 

 Seychelles we returned home via the Suez Canal, 



