A run along the beach in the sun until I was dry followed, and then I returned to my awning and read aloud to myself in English, from my medical books and my English-French Testament, simply for the pleasure of hearing my own voice.

I was a very good linguist in those days, and spoke English particularly well long before I left Switzerland.

After breakfast, my dog and I would go out to catch a peculiar sort of fish called the "sting-rae." These curious creatures have a sharp bony spike about two inches in length near the tail and this I found admirably adapted for arrow-heads.

The body of the fish resembled a huge flounder, but the tail was long and tapering.

They would come close in-shore, and I would spear them from the rocks with a Papuan fishing-spear.