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which would have been about its duration but for the 
thunder storm, we remained where we were for the 
night. 
That afternoon the Indians of the place, seeing our 
interest in catching butterflies exhibited various clever 
ways of entrapping these insects. To catch those of yellow 
hue they picked and laid on the ground the flowers of a 
yellow bignonia (B. chic'ka) ; and this proved a most suc- 
cessful plan. Equally successful were they when they 
laid decaying banana-skins on the ground to attract the 
large blue Morphos ; but an attempt to attract 
certain red species by displaying the ripe red fruit 
of the faroah plant (Bixa or el land) was not suc- 
cessful. Then, these methods of enticing the insects 
were completed by inverting a round quake (a 
wide-mouthed basket of very open wicker-work) 
over the bait, taking care to raise the quake so that 
its lower edge was some inches from the ground. 
The butterflies attracted by the flowers, made their 
way under the raised edge of the quake, and when 
the Indians approached flew, not out under the edge 
of the quake, but upward into the top, where they 
were captured. 
Three hours walking the next day, through forest 
which cannot be called pathless only because there 
was some sort of track, generally but not always just 
discernible to Indian eyes, where the two parties which 
had previously visited Mount Russell had passed, 
brought us to a place on the side of a hill, overlooking a 
deep tree-lined valley, where two or three trees had been 
cleared away and two benabs erected by our precursors* 
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