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few examples perhaps could exhibit this simihwity more than 

 the one under notice ; its pollen moreover being loss friable 

 than that in most species of its family, and singularly viscid. 



I could have spent many months investigating the natural 

 history of this district, but, time being short, I pressed on to 

 reach 3Iuara Mengkulem, whence I hoped to bo able to mal^o 

 an expedition into the Djambi Lands. Using his great influ- 

 ence with its chiefs, the Pangeran of the Ivawas miglit be able 

 to obtain entrance for a white man not a llullandcr, of whose 

 entrance the Sultan Avas naturally extremely jealous and 

 afraid. From Suruknguu the road kept by the nor\\\ side of 

 tlie Itawas river, to the halfway viHage of Pulau Kida, near 

 which is the bovmdary between the diluvium of recent age 

 and the Pala3ozoic strata, which, extending away north-west to 

 Limun, contains the auriferous rocks which have made tluit 



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country ftxmous for the quality and colour of its gold, I passed 

 inany people washing the earth of the high banks of the rivei ; 

 and at a spot some sixty feet above its present bed, opposite 

 where it is obstructed by a cataract a mile and a half in lengthy 

 I saw an ancient mine of the natives. Late in the afternoon 



gkuluni. 



