CONTENTS. 



— The watering-place — A narrow escape — Pig-hunting — Our life in Sulu — 

 Climate — Unhealthiness of Jolo — The Spaniards and the Sulus — Jummentados 

 — Return to Meimbun — Sulu praus — Carving — Photographing the Sultan — 

 Meimbun market — Ancient chain armour — New species of birds — Revisit Parang 

 — Pearl-divers — Lukut Lapas — Captain Schiick— Products of the estate — Jungle 

 fowl — Tobacco cultivation ...... Page 42 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE SULU ISLANDS {confAnucd). 



We visit the Panglima Danimang — Battle between the Panglima and ilaharajah 

 Tahil — The Panglima shows his teeth — An unpleasant predicament — The 

 convicts in Jolo — A serio-comic drama — Pangasinan Island — A bull-fight — 

 Siassi Island — Cholera epidemic — Lapac — Leave for Tawi-tawi Island — The 

 Spanish settlement at Tataan — An unpleasant companion — Tawi-tawi pirates — 

 Fauna and flora of the Philippines and Borneo contrasted — Consideration of 

 the Sulu fauna — The Sulu Archijielago zoographically purely Philippine — The 

 Sibutu Passage forms the boundary line — The Sulu language — History of Sulu 

 —Treaty of 1885 . . . . . T . Page 65 



CHAPTER V. 



BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 



The ]>ritish North Borneo Company — Its formation — Land grants from the Sultans 

 of Brunei and Sulu — Territory acquired — Sandakan Bay — Elopura — Poorness of 

 the soil — Silam — Ascend the Sigaliud River — Narrow escape of the Vigilant — 

 Forest scenery — Graves of the Buludupis — Legend of the origin of the tribe — 

 Birds of the jungle — Exports of Sandakan — Edible birds' nests — Sport in North 

 Borneo — Proceed to Kudat — Murders at Bongon — Visit to Bongon with H.II.S. 

 Fly—hu'A caught in spider's web — We are presented with a "while man" — 

 Leave for Banguey Island — The German Borneo Company — Massacre of the 

 English at Balembangan in 1775 — The Abai and Tampassuk Rivers — Gaya — 

 Kimanis — Terrible epidemic of cholera— Floods — Advantages of Sarawak. 



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