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kangaroo on board at Gessir, which is now 
playing such havoc in the doctor’s pretty gar- 
den that we must put it in spirit. 
At Banda we visited, as usual, Bin Saleh’s 
shop, and were tempted to buy some half-dozen 
skins of the twelve -wired bird of paradise — a 
creature lovelier than I had imagined among 
the feathered tribe. During the night passage 
from Banda our boxes had been opeued, and 
these, with a skin of the king-bird, extracted. 
Tins last we much regretted. While lying at 
Aru, Lopez went a day’s journey to the haunt 
of this lovely bird, and delighted us by bringing 
back two specimens in perfect condition. 
On the whole, however, we have not suffered 
much loss from theft, although constant petty 
pilfering goes on. In Tenimber a pair of stock- 
ings disappeared, a theft from which but small 
advantage could have been derived, for to wear 
them would have been to proclaim the tliiefs 
guilt. The loss we most mourned was a large 
knife which had been H.’s constant companion 
during his travels in the archipelago. It had 
been given him by his friend, Mr Boss, in the 
Keeling Islands, and had served him in all 
sorts of work, from hewing his way in a Su- 
matran forest to carving a fowl. The very 
