Their action is perfectly smooth and easy, and the traveler in the hammock, by shutting his eyes, might imagine himself swinging in a cot on board ship on an almost waveless sea.
After two days traveling they got on to higher ground, and here they camped for some time, Mr.Goodenough slowly recovering strength, and Frank busy in adding to their collections.

In this he was in no slight degree assisted by the Fans, who, having nothing else to do, had now come to enter into the occupation of their employers.

A good supply of muslin had been brought, and nets having been made, the Fans captured large quantities of butterflies, the great difficulty being in convincing them that only a few of each species were required.

They were still more valuable in grubbing about in the decaying trunks of fallen trees, under loose bark, and in broken ground, for beetles and larvae, a task which suited them better than running about after butterflies, which, moreover, they often spoilt irreparably by their rough handling.
Thus Frank was able to devote himself entirely to the pursuit of birds, and although all the varieties more usually met with had been obtained, the collection steadily increased in size.
Frank himself had severe attacks of fever, but none of these were so severe as that which he had had on the day of the death of the leopards.
At the end of a month Mr.Goodenough had recovered his strength, and they again moved forward..