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CHAPTER VI. 



SINGAPORE AND BORNEO. 



Singapore The Sensitive Plant The Nutmeg Tree Gutta Percha 

 Trees yielding Caoutchouc Jatropha Manihot Gambier Useful 

 Plants Lizards and other Animals An Opium-smoker Effects 

 of Opium on the brain Royal Children Curious mode of catching 

 Snakes The Sun-birds A Tree Slug Cerithia Dragon-flies 

 Nondescript Spider Remarkable Caterpillar The Horse-shoe 

 Crab A Land Lobster Borneo Excursion up the Linga 

 Scenery Insects The Long-nosed Monkey Village of Bunting 

 The Balows Dried Human Heads Diseases Excursion to 

 Tungong Native Boar-hunt Singular Fish Crabs and Shells 

 Land-Crabs Habits of Crustaceans. 



ON the 28th of June, 1844, we were again at Singapore, 

 or, as the Malays term it, Singhapura, where we remained 

 sufficiently long for us to examine some of the numerous 

 objects of interest peculiar to this important little island. 

 Rambles, in any direction, always well repay the naturalist; 

 and a walk, even in the immediate vicinity of the town, 

 is very agreeable. In some parts you will find the ground 

 covered with the Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica), and, 

 as you walk along, you leave a quivering track behind 

 you, caused by the shrinking of a thousand leaflets, 

 making you almost believe, with Darwin and Dutrochet, 



