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"
I
do
not
agree
with
you
,
friend
Ned
,
for
I
see
only
parrots
there
.
"
"
Friend
Conseil
,
"
said
Ned
,
gravely
,
"
the
parrot
is
like
pheasant
to
those
who
have
nothing
else
.
"
"
And
,
"
I
added
,
"
this
bird
,
suitably
prepared
,
is
worth
knife
and
fork
.
"
Indeed
,
under
the
thick
foliage
of
this
wood
,
a
world
of
parrots
were
flying
from
branch
to
branch
,
only
needing
a
careful
education
to
speak
the
human
language
.
For
the
moment
,
they
were
chattering
with
parrots
of
all
colours
,
and
grave
cockatoos
,
who
seemed
to
meditate
upon
some
philosophical
problem
,
whilst
brilliant
red
lories
passed
like
a
piece
of
bunting
carried
away
by
the
breeze
,
papuans
,
with
the
finest
azure
colours
,
and
in
all
a
variety
of
winged
things
most
charming
to
behold
,
but
few
eatable
.
However
,
a
bird
peculiar
to
these
lands
,
and
which
has
never
passed
the
limits
of
the
Arrow
and
Papuan
islands
,
was
wanting
in
this
collection
.
But
fortune
reserved
it
for
me
before
long
.
After
passing
through
a
moderately
thick
copse
,
we
found
a
plain
obstructed
with
bushes
.
I
saw
then
those
magnificent
birds
,
the
disposition
of
whose
long
feathers
obliges
them
to
fly
against
the
wind
.
Their
undulating
flight
,
graceful
aerial
curves
,
and
the
shading
of
their
colours
,
attracted
and
charmed
one
's
looks
.
I
had
no
trouble
in
recognising
them
.
"
Birds
of
paradise
!
"
I
exclaimed
.
The
Malays
,
who
carry
on
a
great
trade
in
these
birds
with
the
Chinese
,
have
several
means
that
we
could
not
employ
for
taking
them
.
Sometimes
they
put
snares
on
the
top
of
high
trees
that
the
birds
of
paradise
prefer
to
frequent
.
Sometimes
they
catch
them
with
a
viscous
birdlime
that
paralyses
their
movements
.
They
even
go
so
far
as
to
poison
the
fountains
that
the
birds
generally
drink
from
.
But
we
were
obliged
to
fire
at
them
during
flight
,
which
gave
us
few
chances
to
bring
them
down
;
and
,
indeed
,
we
vainly
exhausted
one
half
our
ammunition
.
About
eleven
o’clock
in
the
morning
,
the
first
range
of
mountains
that
form
the
centre
of
the
island
was
traversed
,
and
we
had
killed
nothing
.
Hunger
drove
us
on
.
The
hunters
had
relied
on
the
products
of
the
chase
,
and
they
were
wrong
.
Happily
Conseil
,
to
his
great
surprise
,
made
a
double
shot
and
secured
breakfast
.
He
brought
down
a
white
pigeon
and
a
wood-pigeon
,
which
,
cleverly
plucked
and
suspended
from
a
skewer
,
was
roasted
before
a
red
fire
of
dead
wood
.
While
these
interesting
birds
were
cooking
,
Ned
prepared
the
fruit
of
the
bread-tree
.
Then
the
wood-pigeons
were
devoured
to
the
bones
,
and
declared
excellent
.
The
nutmeg
,
with
which
they
are
in
the
habit
of
stuffing
their
crops
,
flavours
their
flesh
and
renders
it
delicious
eating
.
"
Now
,
Ned
,
what
do
you
miss
now
?
"
