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THE ARU ISLANDS .-- SECOND RESIDENCE AT DOBBO.
(MAY AND JUNE 1857.) DOBBO was full to overflowing, and I was obliged to occupy the court-house where the Commissioners hold their sittings.

They had now left the island, and I found the situation agreeable, as it was at the end of the village, with a view down the principal street.

It was a mere shed, but half of it had a roughly boarded floor, and by putting up a partition and opening a window I made it a very pleasant abode.

In one of the boxes I had left in charge of Herr Warzbergen, a colony of small ants had settled and deposited millions of eggs.