CHAPTER X 
UPS AND DOWNS 
THE day after I had settled the business with Kafulu, 
I sent Sam on to the Kebea to collect Lepidoptera, so 
that we might be working two different localities and 
elevations at the same time. On April 26 Harry left 
Ekeikei to fetch Sam back with the collections he had 
made, for we had decided to go back to Hall Sound 
and send home our specimens, which the humid 
atmosphere was threatening to spoil. In due time 
they returned, and after I had examined the results 
of Sam’s labours, I arranged with him to return to 
Foula, where he had been collecting, while my son 
and myself went down to the coast. 
The journey down was not very eventful, but one 
night we spent at Bioto Creek will always remain 
memorable to us. At Bioto we put all our cases on 
board a canoe, and set out with two natives to navi- 
gate the overladen craft to Pokama. As we did not 
leave until late we were forced to spend the whole night 
in the creek. In our crazy vessel, weighed down 
almost to the water's edge, for she had only three 
inches of free board, we lay close inshore, under dense 
mangrove trees. Sleep was impossible, for we were 
assailed by mosquitoes and other discomforts; added 
to this we had to endure the stench of mud, the hoarse 
cry of the mound-builder, the clacking of myriads of 
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