D'Entrecasteaux Islands

The natives of the d'Entrecasteaux Islands as I saw them in 1888 afford an excellent illustration.

We caught curl-crested manucode, hooded butcherbirds, helmeted friarbirds, spangled drongo, and several other species we hadn’t seen since working on the mainland or the D’Entrecasteaux Islands.

Tomorrow we sail for the Amphlett Group, small islands northeast of the D’Entrecasteaux Islands.

And then, one day as they dined with the lonely trader of an isolated station in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, he fell from his chair as if poleaxed.

For two months I had been on the d'Entrecasteaux Islands gathering data for the concluding chapters of my book upon the flora of the volcanic islands of the South Pacific.