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. Most
unfortunately, however, he was seized with a terrible fever on his arrival at Coti,
and, after lying there some weeks, was taken to Singapore in a very bad
condition, where he arrived after I had left for England. When he recovered he
obtained employment in Singapore, and I lost his services as a collector.
The three concluding chapters of my work will treat of the birds of Paradise,
the Natural History of the Papuan Islands, and the Races of Man in the Malay
Archipelago.