in a foreign country. Our own policy, namely, that of wholeheartedly enlisting the assistance of the natives, while it is efficient in a country where a stick of tobacco is an article to be conjured with, would be severely harrowed in a country like Australia or Spain where the natives are people like ourselves. There are those believing in the native policy, however, who would attack Australia or Spain, indeed, have attacked both Australia and Spain, with ample and not too expansive results. Likewise there are exponents of the opposite school operating in regions abounding in cheap and resourceful labor who are convinced that this labor is no good to them and deprive themselves of it. It is with the de- sire of experimenting on the success of both sides that we are obtaining the help of the natives up here; for the policy of Mr. Beck has always been to avoid the natives in pursuit of bird specimens, using them only for purposes of food supply, and the catching of live specimens. In the course of a few days after Dr. Drowne had explained to the natives what things could be brought in from the bush to receive a portion of tobacco, there appeared representations of nine different villages, Kupci, Binkumi, Kino, Chinga, Mokontoro, and Katikia on this side of the mountain, and Mosinau, Moroni, and Kokere on the other. The villages mentioned fabricate a network of sixty-four square miles. The result of Dr. Drowne's conversation was still