paid off his carriers. What few things he brought with him were hung up on our steps, and with the departure of his camp followers and the restoration of the quiet of the Sabbath, we found ourselves possessed with a totally novel endowment, a guest for dinner. Mr. Fordyce turned out to be actually the most attractive person in the Territory of New Guinea, barring, perhaps, Esson of Arawa. Outside of giving us a brief of his experiences in the most abstract way, he switched the conversation off himself and never permitted it to get back again. We had a most enjoyable afternoon and evening and inaugurated a discussion in which we tossed the reputation of nations around in a most cold-blooded manner, lying on our backs and blowing smoke into the darkness. January 9th. Mr. Fordyce set out early for Arawa Plantation. He took with him very kindly some letters to Messrs. Ebery and Walsh, the storekeepers, and his carriers going north will be our carriers coming south again with the supplies we have sent for at Kieta. They have agreed to carry up rice, biscuits, flour, tinned meat, jam, and condensed milk. With them we sent our first shipment of birds, one hundred and twenty specimens packed up in a camphorwood box and destined for Mr. Esson. The camphorwood box is one that I bought from the Chinaman in Kieta for eleven shillings. It has served as a writing desk, dining room chair, bird skinning bench, and reading table. Besides holding together all my heterogenious possessions, tobacco, tooth-paste, socks,