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it. I have therefore placed the author's Chapter IX at 

 the end, leaving the other three, all concerned with 

 expeditions, in the original order. The titles of IX and 

 X are unchanged ; XI, without a title, I have called 

 " Animal Life of the Shores : Visit to a Turtle Island." 

 There is a little overlap at the beginning of Chapters X 

 and XI, and it is possible that they were intended to 

 form a single chapter, of which the opening paragraphs 

 had been written twice. Allowing for the slight overlap 

 I believe that the arrangement here adopted will be 

 found convenient. The author's Introduction was never 

 finished. The first sentence had been written by him 

 carefully in ink, all the rest hurriedly in pencil, and the 

 last page on both sides of the paper. 



The illustrations were the chief difficulty. Only for 

 Chapter I was there a full indication of what the 

 author's intentions had been, and even as regards this the 

 material for carrying them out was far from complete. 

 I was confronted with a mass of drawings, finished and 

 unfinished, named and unnamed, and with an immense 

 number of negatives arranged in many series, but without 

 numbers or any other indication by which to identify 

 them with the names on their respective lists. However, 

 by Dr. Hose's kind help, and by means of an album of 

 Sarawak photographs, published in 1905 by him and the 

 author, I was able to make out the subjects of a large 

 number of the negatives. The unnamed drawings which 

 had been prepared specially for the book were identi- 

 fied from internal evidence and by kind help which is 

 acknowledged in the descriptions of the plates. In this 

 way I have done my best to select suitable illustrations 

 and to provide the descriptive legends. At the end of 



