He missed however, and let go, and the snake got under a dead trunk close by.

It was again poked out, and again the Bouru man caught hold of its tail, and running away quickly dashed its head with a swing against a tree, and it was then easily killed with a hatchet.

It was about twelve feet long and very thick, capable of doing much mischief and of swallowing a dog or a child.
I did not get a great many birds here.

The most remarkable were the fine crimson lory, Eos rubra--a brush-tongued parroquet of a vivid crimson colour, which was very abundant.

Large flocks of them came about the plantation, and formed a magnificent object when they settled down upon some flowering tree, on the nectar of which lories feed.