CHAPTER VH 



BAITDA, 



Two montlis had now passed sinoe I ai'rived 

 at Aiuboina^ and I had not only collected all tbe 

 shells figured in llumpliins's "Eariteit Kamer" which 

 I had come to seek, hut more than tvnGe as many 

 species besides, I was therefore ready to visit some 

 other locality, and turn my attention to a different 

 branch of natui-al histoiy. Dmiiig all the time I 

 had been gathering and arranging my collection, Gov* 

 eiTior Arriens had frequently lionored me with a visit, 

 and, as I was finishing my work, he called again, this 

 time to give me a pleasant surprise. He liad a fine 

 steam-yacht, of three or four hundred tona It was 

 necessary that he should go to Bauda, and he took it 

 for granted that I would accompany him. If I had 

 planned for myself^ what could I have desired more ; 

 but he added that, when his yacht, the Telegraph, re- 

 turned, there would be an item of business for her to 

 do on the north coast of Ceram, which I should also 

 visit, though alone, and that, when she i-^tumed to 

 Amboina a second time, we %vould go together to Ter- 

 ^ nate, and, taking the Resident stationed there, proceed 

 to the north coast of Papua — royal programme. 



