A NATUBALIST'S WAKDEniNGS 



but we may feel sure that a change of form indicates a eorre- 

 s|ion<ling change of function ; and in discovering its true 

 t'amn tVetref the object of our coutempliitiun ia invested 

 with a halo of interest which it could not otherwise have 

 possessed. 



'i he yellow, short-stamen ed anthers have evidently left their 

 ordinary funetion of lecnndation to Wconie an enticing food-lmit 

 to attract insects to the flower, while the long stamens have 

 varied in form to secure to the utmost their ordinary function 

 by insuring that their pollen shall fecundate not their own 

 but their neigh l>oiir*s stigma. This result, however, would be 

 impossible but for the singularly methodical habits which 

 bees have of visiting in a loug sequence the same sj>ecies of 

 flowers.* 



How fitly jointed together all nature hangs ! 



After I had progressed some distance on the morning on onr 

 way up, I became aware of two men following us who were not 

 of our party. On inquiry T found that they were Ampat Lawang 

 men going to the niuuntain to iuvoke the Dewa. One carried a 

 white pigeon in a cage, and both were dressed with care in their 

 best garments. On arrival at my hut, they adjourned along 

 with my guide to the summit overlooking it. Here they 

 bunied l>enzoin inc^^nse to the Dewa, whom they should have 

 invoked by a prayer, but as none of them could "menhadji" 

 this part of the ceremony had perforce to be dispensed with. 

 Thereafter they made their way to the Kaba peak, which rose 

 on our opposite side perpendicularly out of the crater. There 

 the two were to spend the night in the open air, and let 

 loose their pigeon as an offering to the Dewa, I knew that 

 they must have como on some special mission, aud suspected 

 that the younger man had perhaps set his heart on a fair 

 maiden^ and desired to impress the deity into his suit; or 

 that they had come to solicit a good rice crop in what wixs then 

 an almost famine time ; or that sickness or some grave trouble 

 oppressed them ; but on inquiring of my guide the specific 

 reason, I found that they were earnestly desirous that the 

 Dewa might incline the heart of the magistrate of their district 

 to grant them leave to hold — a cock-fighting touruament! 



The Imt of paudan mats which I had sent men to erect close 

 * ty. Nadit'c, vol, sxiv. jv 30T; xxvi. ]), iiW); xxvii. p, 30. 



