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was afterwards conducted round the ship, and was evidently struck with the superior 
comfort of the style of living in comparison with his own. 
The day was employed in surveying the harbour, in taking astronomical and magnetic 
observations, in observing the tides and exploring the islands. There was a large 
number of cocoanut trees by the villages on the beaches, and numerous bread fruit and 
sago trees, sago being the staple food of the natives (see PL XXVII.). 
The houses of the village of the Ki Doulan were all raised on posts, except the 
Mohammedan Mosque, which building shows a curious development of the high-peaked 
Malay roof into a sort of half tower, half spire, representing no doubt an equivalent of 
the dome (see PI. XXVI.). Under the eaves of the houses baskets were hung up for 
the fowls to nest in. 
Some boys were playing near the village, and, as a toy, they had a very ingeniously 
made model of a spring gun, or rather spring bow, a trap by which a large arrow is shot 
into a wild pig, on its setting loose a catch. A boy who acted as guide, and wore a 
turban, placed his hand upon it and said, :e Mohammed,” and explained to Captain 
Tizard that the small boys at play, whose heads were bare, were heathen ; he was 
evidently very proud of his religion. 
The Ki Islanders, besides arrows like those of the Arrou Islanders, use others which are 
peculiar. They are light, thin narrow strips cut out of the long leaves of what is believed 
to be a species of Carina. The strips are so cut that the stiff midrib of the leaf forms the 
shaft of the arrow, and portions of the wings of the leaf are left on at the base of the 
arrow to act as feathers ; the point is simply sharpened with the knife. These leaf 
arrows when dry are hard and stiff, and are very easily made by a few strokes of the 
knife. A large bundle of them is carried by the archer, and they are shot away at a 
bird in the bush without the trouble being taken to find them again, as in the case of 
other arrows. They are so small and light that they make very little show in their flight, 
and no noise ; and a youth was seen to shoot at least a dozen of them, at a large Nutmeg 
Pigeon, without the birds doing more than move its head, and start a little as they flew 
by almost touching it. These Nutmeg Pigeons ( Carpophaga concinna ) are very large 
heavy birds ; some of those shot weighed 2 lbs., and a considerable supply was obtained. 
A Fruit Bat ( Pteropus melanopogon ) and several Lizards ( Varanus indicus, Hemi- 
dactylus sp., Cyclodus sp., and Heteropus sp.), as also several of the Scincidse, were 
obtained. 
A large collection of insects was made, of which the following species are new : — 
Lepicloptera, 1 Hamadryas niveipicta, Lampides cetherialis, Terias photoprhila, Papilio 
thomsonii, Parnphila moseleyi ; Coleoptera, 2 Pelops gularis; Hymenoptera, 3 Braeon 
stigmaticus, Dielis wallacei. 
] A. G. Butlers, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist,., ser. 5, vol. xiii. p. 191 et seq., 1884. 
r C, 0. Waterhouse, Ibid., p. 279. W. F. Kirby, Ibid., pp. 404, 407, 
