CHAPTER VI 
VICISSITUDES AND A DIGRESSION 
The Drought affects our Work—Butterflies begin to Fail— 
Forest Fires—We descend to the St. Joseph River—A Tempo- 
rary Camp—A Wonderful Native Suspension Bridge—River 
Scenery—Native Methods of Fishing—Dull Weather and 
Little Success in Collecting—A Comic Incident—A Native 
besieged by a Wild Pig—War—Native Hostility—A Chief 
threatens to Cook and Eat our Heads—Strict Guard kept 
on Camp—The Bird of Paradise—Papuan Game Laws— 
Natives’ Interest in Writing—Further Stay at the St. Joseph 
Impracticable—A Flood destroys our Bridge—A Visit to a 
Native Village—Curious Means of Ingress—Return to Dinawa 
—My Cingalese Headman’s Experiences—He evades Native 
Treachery—Sudden Growth of a New Township. 
