days we travelled on through the forest, and a happy enough time it
was; for my companion was apparently delighted at the idea of his
freedom, and chattered away in a very amiable manner. But toward the end
of the third day we were startled by hearing strange sounds; and on
peering down from the branches, we saw a man. I did not know he was a
man at the time; but I found out to my cost what he was only too soon.
He had some dogs with him, and seemed to be waiting for something, for
he peeped cautiously round a tree every now and then, bidding the dogs
lie close. Then in a moment came a fearful crack from a gun he carried,
and something gave a great roar and a wild snort, and I nearly lost my
senses with the fright. It was all I could do to clutch on by the
branch, my legs shook so with fear; and as for my companion, if it
hadn't been for falling into a cleft in a branch, he would have gone
straight down on to the man's wide-spreading hat. The cry had come from
a boar, which lay dead or dying; and in a very few minutes the man had
fastened something to his legs, and began dragging him away, while the
dogs capered, and danced, and barked round them.

"You may well believe we felt no anxiety to continue our travels, for a
little. There were not many trees near us with fruit that we cared for,
except a cotton-tree; and I ate and ate, wondering why my mother could
have been so stupid as to say its fruit was not safe. But all at once I
began to feel my eyes shutting; and to rouse myself I flew on to
another tree, where my companion soon joined me. Though it was broad
daylight, I was as sleepy as if it had been the dead of night; and I
recollect nothing more, till, on opening my eyes, I found myself in a
dark, dingy place, and heard strange noises--grunts coming from under my
feet, cries from every side; and then such a number of strange-looking
creatures all about, and one quite different in colour from the others
standing near where I was tied; for I soon found I was securely fastened
by the foot."

"That was my uncle," said Herbert; "and he told me how he had found you
and your companion quite stupified with eating the cotton seeds; and
that was a Dyak log-house you were in."

"When I recovered my senses," said the cockatoo, "I had been taken on
board ship, and placed in a large wicker-cage. There were ever so many
more birds in the ship, but I did not see them then, and thought I was
quite alone. However, I had not been