However, he had not found any insect which was fit to enrich his collection.

Even the "pyrophores" obstinately refused to show themselves to him, and attract him by the phosphorescences of their corselet.

Nature seemed truly to mock the unhappy entomologist, whose temper was becoming cross.
For four days more the march toward the northeast was continued in the same way.

On the 16th of April the distance traversed from the coast could not be estimated at less than one hundred miles.

If Harris had not gone astray--and he affirmed it without hesitation--the Farm of San Felice was no more than twenty miles from the halting place of that day.