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Updated: May 11, 2025
Jabizri crawled off the Doctor's finger to the ground and looked about him. He stretched his legs, polished his nose with his front feet and then moved off leisurely to the westward. We had expected him to walk UP the mountain; instead, he walked AROUND it. Do you know how long it takes a beetle to walk round a mountain? Well, I assure you it takes an unbelievably long time.
Chee-Chee scaled up the sheer wall of the slab and examined the top of it where it leaned against the mountain's side; I uprooted bushes and stripped off hanging creepers that might conceal a weak place; the Doctor got more leaves and composed new picture-letters for the Jabizri to take in if he should turn up again; whilst Polynesia carried up a handful of nuts and pushed them into the beetle's hole, one by one, for the prisoners inside to eat.
The Doctor got frightfully excited. He took off his hat to use as a net, swooped at the beetle and caught it. He nearly fell down a precipice on to the rocks below in his wild hurry, but that didn't bother him in the least. He knelt down, chortling, upon the ground with the Jabizri safe under his hat.
They approached so silently and so cautiously that I neither saw nor heard them coming till I found them crouching beside me on the sand. One sight of the snail changed the Doctor completely. His eyes just sparkled with delight. I had not seen him so thrilled and happy since the time we caught the Jabizri beetle when we first landed on the island.
It's an old dodge when you're short of ink but highly unsanitary What an extraordinary thing to find tied to a beetle's leg! I wish I could talk beetle language, and find out where the Jabizri got it from." "But what is it?" I asked "Rows of little pictures and signs. What do you make of it, Doctor?" "It's a letter," he said "a picture letter.
Rolled around the middle section of its right foreleg was something that looked like a thin dried leaf. It was bound on very neatly with strong spider-web. It was marvelous to see how John Dolittle with his fat heavy fingers undid that cobweb cord and unrolled the leaf, whole, without tearing it or hurting the precious beetle. The Jabizri he put back into the box.
We turned and found that he was pointing to the Jabizri, who was now walking UP the mountain at a much faster and more business-like gait. "Well," said Bumpo sitting down wearily; "if he is going to walk OVER the mountain and back, for more exercise, I'll wait for him here. Chee-Chee and Polynesia can follow him."
Well, there's one good thing about it: I shall be able to get some Jabizri beetles." "What are Jabizri beetles?" "They are a very rare kind of beetles with peculiar habits. I want to study them. There are only three countries in the world where they are to be found. Spidermonkey Island is one of them. But even there they are very scarce."
All these little things put together mean a message But why give a message to a beetle to carry and to a Jabizri, the rarest beetle in the world? What an extraordinary thing!" Then he fell to muttering over the pictures.
The very palms Bowed down their heads In welcome to the coming King. The shy Jabizri brings him picture-words Of great distress. See how he tears the mountain like a yam! See how the lost ones Dance forth to greet the day! He waved his hand and lo! Lightning leapt from cloudless skies; The sun leant down; And Fire was born!
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