Instead of being far better than the Aru Islands, it was in almost everything much worse.

Instead of producing several of the rarer Paradise birds, I had not even seen one of them, and had not obtained any one superlatively fine bird or insect.

I cannot deny, however, that Dorey was very rich in ants.

One small black kind was excessively abundant.

Almost every shrub and tree was more or less infested with it, and its large papery nests were everywhere to be seen.
They immediately took possession of my house, building a large nest in the roof, and forming papery tunnels down almost every post.