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The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, 

 Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo. 



By WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, 



Chief Taxidermist U. S. National Museum. 



d vol., 8vo, pp. xxii. 512, two folding maps and 51 illustrations. Price, $3,00. 



THE EXPEDITION AND ITS OBJECT. 



THE author relates the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, 

 Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo ; and certainly no richer 

 hunting-ground could be found anywhere else in the world. Mr. 

 Hornaday is chief taxidermist in the United States National Museum. 

 He was formerly connected with Professor Ward's Natural Science 

 Museum of Rochester, N. Y., and his expedition to the East was in the 

 interests of that establishment. While his book is in some respects like 

 such works as those which Du Chaillu and Sir Samuel W. Baker have 

 written to delight and interest a multitude of readers, he has imparted a 

 vast amount of information, a large part of which is new and of the great- 

 est moment to the naturalist. 



Mr. Hornaday started from New York in 1876. From England he 

 went finally south to India, arriving at Bombay; he went across country 

 to Benares ; from here he made an expedition to the north to Cawnpore 

 and Agra. From Benares he worked his way to Calcutta, journeyed down 

 the Bay of Bengal to Madras ; southward again, he made a complete cir- 

 cuit of Ceylon, than to the Malay Peninsula, and finally to Borneo, where 

 his adventures with the orangutan were met, ending his two years of fruit- 

 ful and entirely successful search. The illustrations are many, and most 

 of them are taken from Mr. Hornaday's own sketches. Though it may 

 seem to be stating much, it certainly may be truly said that a more inter- 

 esting book of travel and adventures was never published. 



" Decidedly the most interesting and instructive book of travel and adventure in 

 the East Indies it has ever been our good fortune to read." Baltimore News. 



" An entertaining volume. . . . The author has proved his ability to write a 

 good book of travel." Morning Post (London). 



" To the naturalist, Mr. Hornaday's book cannot but be as deeply-interesting as 

 to the sportsman and traveller. ... It deserved to be distinguished from among 

 the mass of books cf sporting adventure.'* Melbourne Argus. 



" One of the most entertaining and instructive books of its kind t^at has been 

 published." Sun Francisco Post. 



