menced any fresh expeditions. My succeeding journeys
to Gilolo and Batchian have already been narrated, and
it now only remains for me to give an account of my
residence in Waigiou, the last Papuan territory I visited
in search of Birds of Paradise. CHAPTEE XXXV.
VOYAGE FROM CERAM TO WAIGIOU.
, .(JUNE AND JULY 1 8 6 0 .)
T N my twenty-fifth chapter I have described my arrival
at Wahai, on my way to My sol and Waigiou, islands
which belong to the Papuan district, and the account of
which naturally follows after that of my visit to the mainland
of New Guinea. I now take up my narrative at my
departure from Wahai, with the intention of carrying various
necessary stores to my assistant, Mr. Allen, at Silinta, in
Mysol, and then continuing my journey to Waigiou. It
will be remembered that I was travelling in a small prau,
which I had purchased and fitted up in Goram, and that,
having been deserted by my crew on the coast of Ceram,
I had obtained four men at Wahai, who, with my Amboy-
nese hunter, constituted my crew.
Between Ceram and Mysol there are sixty miles of open
sea, and along this wide channel the east monsoon blows
strongly; so that with native praus, which will not lay up
to the wind, it requires some care in crossing. In order to