VICISSITUDES 
by precipices. It was strongly stockaded, and we had 
a stiff clamber to get tothe top. To enter the stockade 
we had to pass through the outer native house before 
gaining access to the centre of the village, a sort of 
compound. The stockade was closely built, only a 
few bars being left loose for ingress and egress, — 
and the entrance could easily be shut in case of 
attack. 
A march lasting from 6 a.m. till 12.30 P.M. brought 
us back to Dinawa, where we found all well and in 
good order, except our plants and one of the birds. 
A “magnificent,” a really beautiful specimen of that 
species of paradise bird, which one of my boys had 
brought in, and which we had hoped to keep in a 
cage, had died, probably because when its captor 
brought it into camp he slung it head downwards 
from a pole, and kept it in that position several 
hours. We were heartily sorry to lose so fine an 
example of the kellelo, as the Papuans call that 
variety. . 
Two days after our return to Dinawa camp, Sam 
rejoined us. He had much to tell, for the times had 
been rather stirring with him. My head man as well 
as I had received the polite attentions of the Baw- 
boi chieftain, who had sent in to say that he was not 
afraid of Sam and his gun, and that he would cut off 
his head and eat him. After this overture Sam was 
careful to camp at the bottom of the hill, but our 
adversary did not give up hopes of a Cingalese dinner. 
A message came from another village that if Sam 
would go there he would be presented with a pig; 
but he knew the Papuan too well. He replied to 
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