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New Guinea in search of Paradise-birds. 
seemed fairly plentiful in the neighbourhood, judging by its 
continuous calling. I took a short stroll along the track and 
saw some White Cockatoos and Hornbills, and heard some 
Goura Pigeons. I also caught fleeting glimpses of smaller 
birds, with which I was unfortunately unacquainted. Towards 
evening a few carriers came into the camp with three walla¬ 
bies, which they had run down with their dogs. Heni-Keni 
worked hard in skinning one, but soon tired of this business, 
as I was too busy with the birds and could not give him 
much assistance. I boiled the heads of the other two for 
the sake of their skulls, while the men roasted and ate the 
bodies. The third and last day’s march began about 
9 a.m., and we arrived at Madiu about 3 p.m. The track 
was very tortuous and crossed endless ravines, down which 
flowed numerous small streamlets. The jungle became 
grander if possible than anything I had so far seen ; and I 
observed many huge trees with their trunks split up into a 
network of roots some distance above the ground, while others 
were supported by means of huge flying buttresses. About 
midday the rain descended in torrents, and we became 
drenched and thoroughly tired by the seemingly endless 
marching. At the summit of a high hill, cleared of bushes, 
we found a large house into which we entered, while the 
carriers went to a tumbledown shelter or squatted down under 
the flooring of the first building. The view from this spot 
was exceedingly fine—wide and very precipitous ravines and 
mountain-slopes, with hardly a sign of any clearing with the 
exception of the small village of Ihaevala. This lay some 
considerable distance off across a deep valley, and was just 
discernible through the jungle. Far away to the north-west 
stretched several ranges, with Mt. Yule on the horizon. But 
the view was frequently concealed during the day by clouds 
or showers of heavy rain. Next morning I paid off about 
twenty-four carriers with tobacco and large knives, and they 
departed in great haste, whooping with satisfaction, down into 
the valleys immediately below our camping-site. Aihegetta 
arrived in the afternoon with eleven carriers and brought a 
note from Stalker stating that he expected to join me in a 
