500 KE^ GUINMA. [chap, kxxiv. 



skin-draease. The old chiet seemed much pleased with 

 his present, find promised (through an interpreter I 



brought \yith me) to pro- 

 tect my men when thej 

 came there shooting, and 

 also to procure me some 

 birds and animals. While 

 conversing, they smoked 

 tobacco of their own grow- 

 ing, in pipes cut from a 

 single piece of ^\'ood with 

 a long upright handle. 



Wb had arrived at Do- 

 rey about tlie end of the 

 wet season, when the whole 

 country was soaked witli 

 moisture. The native paths 

 were so neglected as to be 

 often mere tunnels closed 

 over with vegetation, and 

 in such places thtre wiuj 

 always a iearlul accumula- 

 tion of nuid. To the naked Papuan this is no obstruction 

 He wades through it, and the next watei-course makes him 

 clean again ; but to mysell", wearing boots and trousers, 

 it was a most disagreeable thing to have to go up to 

 my knees in a niud-hole every morning. The man 1 

 brouglit with me to cut wood fell ill soon after we anived, 

 or 1 would have set him to clear fresh paths in the worst 

 places. For the first ten days it generally rained every 

 afternoon and all night; but by going out every hour 

 of fine weather, I managetl to get on tolerably with my 

 rollections ol' Im-ds and insects, finding most of tho.^ 

 collected by Lesson during his visit in the OogitiUe, as 

 well as many new ones. It appears, however, that iJorey 

 is not the place for Birds of I*aradise, none of the natives 

 l>eing accustomed to presi rve theui. Those sold liere are 

 all brought from Amberbaki, about a hundred miles west, 

 where the Doreyans go to trade. 



The islands in tlie bay, with the low lands near the 

 coast, seem to have been Ibrmed by recently raised coral 



