AMONG PAPUAN PEAKS 
then I would take three hours, and some of the 
natives were always awake for fear of other natives. 
It was very lonely in camp, but we passed the time 
smoking and watching a few sweet potatoes baking 
in the embers. As our own fellows were disaffected, 
it was necessary also to keep them under constant 
observation. From the tent we could watch their 
quarters, and Sam made a bamboo bed in the men’s 
shelter. They, poor fellows, had rather a rough time of 
it, apart from their fears and discontent, for one night 
a tremendous deluge of rain swamped their quarters. 
Next day they went into the forest and cut a large 
quantity of bamboo leaves, with which they made a 
splendid rain-tight roof about 6 inches thick. As 
it would have been a pity to have left without doing 
our best to get specimens of the paradise bird, we 
sent all our shooting boys away and allowed them 
to take a tent with them. The long-tail paradise 
birds frequent the Pandanus trees when they are 
in seed, and when the shooters found a tree in that 
condition they would camp near it and lie in wait 
for the birds. While this little expedition was out, 
Sam, Harry, myself, and a boy remained alone in 
considerable anxiety, for while the guns were away 
none of us had any sleep. 
I cannot say that we had any actual threats, but 
the country round about us was disturbed, and great 
numbers of the Kabadi people, who had been to 
trade with Mafulu, and were returning home, began 
to stream through our camp. They came through 
in strings, at intervals of an hour or longer. Some 
of them carried pigs that they had _ received 
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