NATURAL HISTORY 



CHAPTER I. 



CAPE DE V BEDS CAPE OF GOOD HOPE JAVA. 



Porto-Praya A llainbow Aspect of the Village Negro Children 

 The Lion-ant Vegetation of Santiago The Bird of Pharaoh 

 The Fishing Eagle of Africa The Gecko Splendid Sun-set 

 Leave Porto-Praya The Petrels The Dolphin Jelly-fish 

 Beautiful Physalia Double the Cape Simon s Say Scenery 

 Vegetation The Honey-suckers The Fishing Cormorant 

 Reptiles The Sand-Mole The Long- eared Fox Singular habits 

 of a Beetle Insects fertilizing Flowers Leave Simon's Bay 

 Eve on the Indian Ocean Habits of the Pteropods The Straits 

 of Sunda Transparent Crustaceans Fecundity of the Ocean 

 Remarkable Crabs Welcome Bay, Java Scenery Natives 

 Habits of the Plantain Squirrel The Walking-leaf Insect 

 The Carrier-Trochus Animal of Marginella . Page 225 



CHAPTER II. 



BORNEO. 



Arrive at Sarawak Gigantic Orthoptera Remarkable Insects 

 Curious habit of a Beetle Prevalence of certain tribes of Insects 

 Butterflies Insects used as Ornaments A splendid Glow- 

 worm Instincts of Spiders Singular Forms of Habits of 

 The Close-eyed Gudgeon The Fighting-fish of Siam The 

 Organ-fish Curious Blenny Thunder Storm Tree struck by 

 Lightning A Man killed The Crocodile Nondescript Plant 

 Habits of the Musang The Slow-paced Lemur The Wou-Wou 

 The Flying Fox The Pitcher Plant Forest Scenery Exuberant 

 Vegetation Aspect of the Woods by Day Their appearance at 

 Eve Nocturnal chorus of Animals Night Alarms Gigantic 

 Lizard Beautiful Tree-Snake Enormous Cobra Capture of a 



