GOOD-BYE TO DINAWA 
the antenne and legs of our specimens would be 
easily jarred, and very probably shaken off. The 
butterflies did not require such care, for each specimen 
was wrapped in paper and laid in sago boxes. Inside 
the wooden cases we placed the moth boxes proper, 
and in other two cases we laid our birds. Outside 
everything we pasted paper, treated with arsenic, to 
keep out insects when we should come to the lower 
ground, for the tiny ants at Port Moresby are legion 
and can penetrate the smallest aperture; once the 
ants enter a naturalist’s collection, woe betide it! 
Our only trouble during these packing operations was 
that we had not any nails small enough, for the huge 
ones we had brought from the coast very often split 
the wood. 
During our last fourteen days at Dinawa we had 
one small gleam of good fortune in our collecting, for, 
curiously enough, we had quite a run of good nights 
with the moths. The nights were dark and misty, 
and we very often had sufficient success to encourage 
us to remain on the verandah and work until the small 
hours. 
The second morning after the day we had our first 
news of Gaberio there was more calling, and shortly 
we heard that our follower was still at Kea-ka-mana, 
and that he had after all decided to go to the Kebea, 
and would return that way. The next day, while we 
were hard at work on our packing, we heard that 
Gaberio was on the Kebea—very pleasant news—for 
he was right in the heart of the best locality for the 
blue bird of paradise and for heterocera. ‘There was 
another reason why this news was encouraging, and 
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