Pursuing my search to Sydney I was doubly fortunate in finding a firm who were expecting these very articles in a consignment due them from the States within a fortnight.

I settled down in strictest seclusion to await their arrival.
And now it will occur to you to ask why I did not cable, during this period of waiting, to the Association; demand aid from it.

Or why I did not call upon members of the University staffs of either Melbourne or Sydney for assistance.

At the least, why I did not gather, as Throckmartin had hoped to do, a little force of strong men to go with me to the Nan-Matal.
To the first two questions I answer frankly--I did not dare.

And this reluctance, this inhibition, every man jealous of his scientific reputation will understand.