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lory. We paused long enough to hope that these specimens might be 
for us, and then went on ikx to Herr Los 1 house* We had tea with him 
rnd his wife, and were delighted to find that he had already notified 
the natives that we were coming, that the little collection in his 
assistant f s yard was for us, and that he would continue to spread 
news of the expedition to the outlying villages. This is the 
most help we have had to date from any govern ent official, and It 
was indeed heart-warming. We had tea with this friendly Dutch 
couple, and looked at some very good photographs that he had made 
in the interior of the island. 
Proceeding on foot we arrived shortly at the Pasanggrahan, 
and were pleased to find that here a resthouse is called Roemah 
Sobat - the Friendly House. It is a large, *±±w& airy structure, with 
tile floors, cement walls, roof thatched with sago palm, and the 
ceilings and partitions made of the central vein of the sago - a 
sturdy rib that looks like bamboo. A police inspector wa s the 
only other guest here, and we moved into comfortable rooms, 
each one furnished math a bed (made, like so many out here, with 
slats or boards instead of springs), a klambo, a washstand, and 
a table and two chairs. 
We had dinner of nasi goreng, and went early to bed. 
April 24 - Ceram 
Early in the morning we went for a wall along the beach to 
the next village, Eti, about five kilometers away. We were not 
walking on the beach, but taking a path that paralleled it all 
the way. We crossed dozens of little streams, that are brackish 
when the tide comes in, and fresh water between tides. We could 
plainly see Hemiramphis, Perid(thaln/us, Tetradon, Scatophagus, and 
other fish in the clear water. The path led through a dense thicket 
of sago palms and second growth, with an occasional forest tree 
towering above the others. One great tall one spread its branches 
all on one high level, looking like an enormous umbrella . 
Eti proved to be $^nice little native village, with tidy 
small houses made of sago palm. The Rajah 1 s house was plastered, 
with a wide verandah, where we stopped to pay our respects to 
him and to his wife. After smoking a cigareete with the be- 
spectacled old gentleman, we went on a tour of the village, and 
found one black-capped lory, which we bought, popped into a palm 
leaf brsket, and brought home with us . 
We were scarcely inside the Roemah Sobat when a troop of 
small boys began bringing in one animal after another. Purple 
lories, red lories, a tame green lory with a brown head, a white 
cockatoo, two small boas, one burrowing sna I e , turtles, white 
fruit pigeons (very young : have to be fed by hand) , a big cuscus, 
a medium sized cuscus (also tame) - a most heartening collection 
for our first day . B. would start out to make the rounds of the 
village. Every time he found that a native had a pet he would 
have him bring it to us, and all the st#ll hoys in the village 
would follow them in. All they needed was a bra ss band for the 
triumphal procession. 
The cages that we brought with us from Ambon are already 
full. The turtles are turned loose upon the floor of an empty room . 
Pigeons are sitting on top of cages. The coclatoo and the green 
