396 A NATUBALIST'S WANDERfNOS 



palm cut down and arranged for m by the Al^furog. Un* 

 fortunately for the quick progress of our marcli, my Crermati 

 companion, unaccustomed to travel, was easily fiitigued, and 

 botli tlie native chiefs were dcTOtees of the opium pipe, and 

 were constimtly finding all manner of excuses for a halt too 

 readily acquiesced in by Mr. Bergmann. No sooner was the 

 order given than their blankets were at onee spread on the 

 ground, and the smithing narcotic produced. 



Next day we journeyed through Kussu>gras3 i^elds, with 

 scarcely a vestige of forest, and only sparse belts or hnv scrub 

 of Mdalmica and Mela^toimt without haTing the satisfaction of 

 seeing a single bird or insect. The country now began to rise 

 in successive steps, first over a height of 500 feet, down 4U0 

 feetj to rise again 600 feet 



On the third day we were compelled to camp at noon on the 

 banks of the Klal>a, on another of those excuses — that no 

 other stream could be reached witliiii the day's march — which 

 the Rajah of Xajeli, who had never gone the road in his life, 

 was constantly making to enable him to resume his soiwritic 

 smoke. The Klaba, like all the Other streams we had crossed, 

 was making for the Apn. The valley was set with more chimps 

 of trees and cycads than any of those we had yet traversed, 



A short way behind I had observed tall bamboo spikes 

 bristling thickly among the grass, for the purpose evidently of 

 catching deer and pig driven towards them by firing the grass 

 in a wide semicircle around them. After our hnts — made of 

 the bark of ComnierBonia eckitMta, a very abundant tree 

 there — ^were erected, I started with my hunters and some of 

 the Al^furus as beaters, in hopes of securing a hannch of 

 venison for onr larder. We were fortunate in meeting within 

 an hour with two little henls, from the second of which 1 secured 

 a fine young stag. While it was being prepared, I scoured the 

 bed of a dry stream behind the camp, and caught numerous 

 fine Tiger Beetles (Cechiddidm) and many sjiecies of a Tenarky 

 a butterfly closely resembling the Tenaris urania of Amboina, 

 but being much paler, I have separated it by the name 

 T, huruensh. 



Next day another very short march was made, a halt being 

 called on the pretext that a ridge of the mountain in front of 

 lis was Kiii ng or tabwed. As we could not piiss over it before 



