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With perspiration streaming from every pore except where the pores were stopped by mud he dashed after "bootterflies" with the wisdom of Solomon and the eagerness of a school-boy, and not until the shades of evening began to descend did his true position flash upon him. Then, with all the vigour of a powerful intellect and an enlightened mind, he took it in at a glance and came to a sudden halt.
He tasted and, like Mr Wallace, "became a confirmed Durian-eater" from that day. "Ve draw near to zee region vere ve shall find zee bootterflies," said the naturalist, during a pause in their luncheon. "I hope we shall be successful," said Nigel, helping himself to some more of what may be styled Durian cream.
With perspiration streaming from every pore except where the pores were stopped by mud he dashed after "bootterflies" with the wisdom of Solomon and the eagerness of a school-boy, and not until the shades of evening began to descend did his true position flash upon him. Then, with all the vigour of a powerful intellect and an enlightened mind, he took it in at a glance and came to a sudden halt.
In this arrangement the professor, much against his will, was compelled to accept the lightest load in consideration of his liability to dart off in pursuit of creeping things and "bootterflies" at a moment's notice.
A sigh of satisfaction broke through the naturalist's moustache on hearing this. "Zen I vill ve vill, you and I, Mister Roy, go after ze bootterflies to-morrow!" "But we must push on," remonstrated Van der Kemp, "for preparations to resist an attack cannot be commenced too soon." "You may push on, mine frond; go ahead if you vill, but I vill not leave zee bootterflies.
It is dancherous to disobey zee Rajah ant I am sorry very sorry zat I cannot show you zee bootterflies to-day. No matter. Better lock zee next time!" Although Professor Verkimier had promised to return at once, he was compelled to encamp in the forest, being overtaken by night before he could reach the river and procure a boat. Next morning they started at daybreak.
It need scarcely be said that his name is Verkimier. There is no accounting for the tastes of human beings. Notwithstanding all his escapes and experiences, that indomitable man of science still ranges, like a mad philosopher, far and wide over the archipelago in pursuit of "bootterflies ant ozer specimens of zee insect vorld."
"You see zee vonderful variety of ornizological specimens I could find here, ant zee herbareum, not to mention zee magnificent Amblypodia eumolpus ant ozer bootterflies ach!-a leetle mor' feesh if you please. Zanks. My frond, it is a great sacrifice, but I vill go avay viz you, for I could not joostify myself if I forzook you, ant I cannot ask you to remain vile your life is in dancher."
In this arrangement the professor, much against his will, was compelled to accept the lightest load in consideration of his liability to dart off in pursuit of creeping things and "bootterflies" at a moment's notice.
You know vell zat I vill die if need be for zee Rajah. Ve must all die vonce, at least, and I should like to die if I must die in a goot cause. What cause better zan frondship? But you say joost now zere is no dancher. Vell, I vill go ant see zee bootterflies to-morrow. After zat, I will go ant die if it must be with zee!"
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