He Was Delayed There More Than A Month Before
He Could Get Back To The North Side Of Mysol, Which
He found a
much better locality, but it was not yet the season for the
Paradise Birds; and before he
Had obtained more than a few of the
common sort, the last prau was ready to leave for Ternate, and he
was obliged to take the opportunity, as he expected I would be
waiting there for him.
This concludes the record of my wanderings. I next went to Timor,
and afterwards to Bourn, Java, and Sumatra, which places have
already been described. Charles Allen made a voyage to New
Guinea, a short account of which will be given in my next chapter
on the Birds of Paradise. On his return he went to the Sula
Islands, and made a very interesting collection which served to
determine the limits of the zoological group of Celebes, as
already explained in my chapter on the natural history of that
island. His next journey was to Flores and Solor, where he
obtained some valuable materials, which I have used in my chapter
on the natural history of the Timor group. He afterwards went to
Coti on the east coast of Borneo, from which place I was very
anxious to obtain collections, as it is a quite new locality as
far as possible from Sarawak, and I had heard very good accounts
of it. On his return thence to Sourabaya in Java, he was to have
gone to the entirely unknown Sumba or Sandal-wood Island.
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