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Cousin Benedict carried all his curious collection of insects in a special box. In this collection figured, among others, some specimens of those new staphylins, species of carnivorous coleopters, whose eyes are placed above the head, and which, till then, seemed to be peculiar to New Caledonia.
I have been rather fortunate in conquering one of those new staphylins which till now had only been found some hundreds of miles further, in New Caledonia." At that moment Dingo, who was playing with Jack, approached Cousin Benedict, gamboling. "Go away! go away!" said the latter, pushing off the animal. "To love cockroaches and detest dogs!" cried Captain Hull. "Oh! Mr. Benedict!"
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