XX. CONTENTS. 



Python Adventure with a Snake Changeable Lizard The 

 Toko The Chichak The Grass Lizard The Bingkaron 

 The Fringed Gecko The Flying Dragon . .251 



CHAPTER III. 



BASHEE AND MEIA-CO-SH1MAH GROUPS. 



Macao Its appearance from the Roads Satan A Marriage Feast 

 Rejoicings over the Dead Exhibition of the Magic-Lanthorn 

 Appearance and Dress of the Women Vegetation Insects 

 Anecdote of a Spider Pirate-Crabs Story about a Land-Crab 

 Beautiful Molluscous Animal Singular Crustacean Sea-Eggs 

 Star-Fish Red-blooded Worms Sharks Meia-co-sJdnmJis 

 Lost in the Woods Scenery A natural Amphitheatre Proposed 

 scheme of abduction Gratitude of the Natives Mountain Scenery 

 The Screw-Pine The Hibiscus, Banyan, Camelia, and other 

 plants Combination of Temperate and Tropical Forms Palms 

 Bamboo Torches Edible Cryptogamic Plant Vegetables 

 Reptiles Blue-tailed Lizard The Diodon Enormous Octopi 

 The Kraken Habits of Cephalopoda Mollusca used as food 

 Modes of defence of Mollusks Enemies of Mollusks New Genus 

 of Dorididae Habits of Crustaceans Insects Glow-Worm 

 The Centipede The Scorpion Spiders Aspect of the Coral- 

 reefs Zoophytes . . . . .285 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO. 



Anecdote of a Python Exploration of Sesarma Curious Cavern 

 A ramble about Samboanga Villages Scenery Vegetation 

 Aborigines of Mindanao The Flying-Fox Remarkable Crabs 

 Habits of Spiders Insects Mindoro Hostility of the Natives 

 Use of the bow and arrow Ylin Poisonous Plant Insects 

 Habits of Molluscous Animals . . . 322 



CHAPTER V. 



THE SOOLOO AND MOLUCCA ARCHIPELAGOS. 



Sooloo Appearance of the People Gigantic drum The Tsjampaka 

 The Sooloos poison the water Their fondness for Pearls Fanciful 

 origin of those concretions The Sultan's fable respecting them 

 Sea-Snakes Origin of " Great Sea-Serpent " Water Spouts 



