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CHAPTER VII. 



BOKNEO. 



Atitbotvg The Badjows The Illanons Appearance of the Country 

 Wild Men in the Mountains Tampassook Scenery The haunts 

 of Pirates New species of Lantern-Fly Lantern-Flies not lumi- 

 nous A beautiful Flata Gigantic Tent-Caterpillar Habits of 

 certain Ants The dwellings of the White Ants Habits of 

 Scarabi and other Mollusks Brunai The Upas-Tree The 

 Pantai Scenery of the River A deserted Village The Rajah's 

 grave Bats and other Animals Bulungan The Orang Sagai 

 Wild and cultivated Plants Terrestrial Leeches The Nibong 

 Palm Vegetable Tallow Aromatic Barks Plants used for be- 

 numbing Fish Singular mode of fishing Insects Leegeetan 

 Scenery Poisonous Plants Insects Birds Habits of Crusta- 

 ceans. 



ON the 25th of September, the Samarang was again 

 at Singapore, leaving which we arrived at Borneo on the 

 1 3th of October, touched at the Island of Labuan on the 

 22nd, and on the 3rd of November, the ship was towed 

 into the snug little bay of Ambong, our business being 

 to rescue, if possible, an English lady, said to be 

 detained prisoner at this place. The village is miserably 

 poor and dirty, with about fifty houses, and a few 

 squallid, leprous Badjows, or Sea Gypsies, for inha- 

 bitants. So badly off for comforts were these poor 



