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Excerpt from A Naturalist in Cannibal Land Mr. Meek's connection with the Tring Museum dates back from the time when he tried his hands at ranching in Queensland. The collections he sent home from that country - and which I acquired from his father - pleased me so much that I gladly accepted his offer of making for my museum collections in the Papuan countries, being confident that A. S. Meek had the pluck and power of endurance necessary for a collector in those unexplored regions. My expectations have been amply fulfilled. The places visited have been numerous, the collections exceedingly rich in novelties and, last but not least, our intercourse with the traveller has always remained most pleasant. When A. S. Meek left Queensland for New Guinea about the middle of the nineties, most of the places he proposed to visit were very little known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.