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Charles Allen liad obtained a tolerable coUection of 

 birds and insects at Mysol, but for less than he would have 

 done tf I had not been so imfortiuiate as to miss visiting 

 him. After waiting another week or two till he was 

 nearly starved, he returned to Waliai in Ceram, and 

 heard, much to his surprise, that I had left a fortnight 

 before. He was delayed there nioue than a month before 

 he could get back to the north side of Mysol, which he 

 found a raucli better locality, but it wiis- not yet the season 

 for the Paradiae Birds ; and before he had olitaiiied more 

 than a few of the common sort, the luafc prau was ready to^ 

 leave for Temate^ and he was obliged to take tlie oppor- 

 tunity, as he expected I wonld be waiting there for hira. 



This coiiclndes the record of niy wanderings. I next 

 went to Timor, and afterwards to Bourn, Java, and 

 Sumatra, which places have already been described. 

 Charles Allen made a voyage to ]!sew Guinea, a short 

 account of which will be given in my next chapter on 

 the Bii'ds of Paradise. On his return he went to the 

 Sula Islands, and made a veiy interesting coDectiou, 

 which aeuved to tleterinine the linjits of the zoological 

 group of Celebes, as already e.xplaiiied in my chapter on 

 the natural history of that island. His next journey was 

 to riores and Solor, where be obtained some valuable 

 materials^ which I have used in my chopter on the natuml 

 histoiy of the Timor group. He aJterwards went to Coti 

 on tlie east coast of Borneo, from which place 1 was very 

 anxious to obtain collections, as it is a quite new locality 

 aa far as possible from Sarawak, and 1 had heard very 

 good accounts of it. On his return thence to Sonrabaya 

 in Java, he was to have gone to the entirely unknown 

 Sumba or Sandal-wood Island. Most unfortunately, how- 

 ever, he was seized with a terrible fever on his arriviil at 

 Coti, and, after lying there some weeks, was taken to 

 Singapore in a very bad condition, where he arrived after 

 I had left for England. When he recovered he obtained 

 employment in Singapore, and 1 lost his services as a 

 collector. 



The three concluding chapters of my work wiD treat of 

 the Birds of Paradise, the Katui-al Historj^ of the Papuan 

 I&hmds, and the Races of Man in the Malay Archipelago. 



