CONTENTS 
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Introduction : The Use of Metaphor in Natural History—Protection, partial . 1 
CHAPTER I 
SOME EARLY REMINISCENCES 
William Spence—Trovey Blackmore—Stainton—Diaries—Wimbledon—Rugby 
—Natural History Society—Rannoch—Oxford—Canada—Peak of Tenerife 
—Spectre of the Brocken. 5 
CHAPTER II 
INDIA AND CEYLON, 1903-4 
Equipment—Simla—Foothills of the Himalaya—Butterflies at rest—Attacks 
of foes—Khaibar Pass—Malakand—Lahore—Delhi—Kamaon—The Mutiny 
—False heads of Butterflies—Suburbs of Calcutta—Darjiling—Buddhists— 
The Plains—Southern India—The Nilgiris—Butterflies drinking—Decoys 
—Ceylon—Mimicry—Adam’s Peak ..35 
CHAPTER III 
CHINA, JAPAN, CANADA, 1904 
Penang—Pidgin English—Singapore— Hongkong—Flowers — Macao—Pirates 
—Canton—Nagasaki—Russian War—A Country Inn—Mixed Fauna—Kyoto 
—The Nakasendo—Nikko—Yokohama—Japanese reflections—Ocean yarns 
—British Columbia—The Rockies—Montreal.122 
CHAPTER IV 
ALGERIA, 1905 
Guyotville—Biskra—Oases—Suleiman bin Arbi—Life in the Desert—Severity 
of the Struggle for Existence—Hammam Meskutine—Hammam R’lhra— 
Scent in male Cleopatra—Bees and Wasps—Blidah—Apes.154 
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