3S2 BOURU, [chap. iKvr, 



stopping places a single addition to my colleoLiona worth 

 namiiig. At Wahai, which I reached on the 15th of June, 

 I was hospitably received by the Commandant and my old 

 friend Ilerr Uosenherg, who was now on an official viait 

 here. He lent me some money to pay niy men, and I was 

 luclry enonf^h to obtain three others willing to make tho 

 voyage with roe to Temate, and one more who was to 

 return from ilysol. One of my Amboyna lads, however, 

 left me, so that I was still rather short of hands. 



I found here a letter from Charles Allen, who was at 

 Silinta iu Myaol, anxiously exiiectinj^ me, as he was out of 

 rice and ot!ier necessaries, and was short of insect-pins. He 

 was also ill, and if I did not soon come woidd retujn to 

 Wahai. 



As ray voyage from this ydace to Waigiou was among 

 islands inliahited by the Papuan race, and was an event- 

 ful and disastrous one, I will narrate its chief inci- 

 dents in a separate chapter in that division of my work 

 devoted to the Papuan Islands. I now have to pass over 

 a year spent in Waigirni and Timor, in order to describe 

 my visit to the island of Bourn, which concluded my 

 explorations of the ^loluceas. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



Bomiu. 



(mat akd juke ISai. Map, p. S92,) 



I HAD long wished to visit the large island of Boimi, 

 which lies dne west of Ceram, and of which scarcely 

 anything appeared to l>e known to naturalists, except 

 Ibat it contained a babirasa ver}' like that of Celebes. 

 I therefore made arrangements for staying there two 

 months after leaving Timor Delli in 186 1< Tliis I could 

 conveniently do liy means of the Dutch mail -steamers, 

 which make a monthly round of the Moluccas. 

 Wc arrived at the harbour of Cajeli on the 4th of May; 



