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This led to the discovery that the museum's own Tmesisternus laterimaculatus, captured 15 years before on an uninhabited New Guinean island, was missing. At Gilmour's home Scotland Yard found 5,141 missing bugs. The hot beetles, insisted Gilmour, had merely been borrowed for further study. But this, decided a magistrate, scarcely explained why the student had sold 16 museum specimens to other collectors. He gave Gilmour three months' opportunity to study roaches in a local jail...
Santa Isabel on the Island of Fernando Po is the Guinean Capital. Starting out with his secretary and a small suite. Governor General Don Gustavo de Sostoa, a popular veteran of the Spanish colonial service in Morocco, had been inspecting small islands for days. He came at last to Annobon, wrung the trusty Sergeant's hand, sat down to a festive, tropical dinner and prepared to endure the native dance. Shrill native pipes squealed, drums throbbed. Black men began to dance and no one noticed white Sergeant Castilla...