CHAPTER III. 



THE FRUITS OF BORNEO ANIMATED NATURE THE RHINOCEROS 



THE TAPIR THE BEAR DEER THE KIJANG AND PALANDOK THE 



PANTHER VARIETIES OF CATS ANECDOTE OF AN ORANG UTAN 



MONKEYS ALLIGATORS THE ALLIGATOR DOCTOR THE MODE 



OF OPERATION LIZARDS SNAKES AND VIPERS THE COBRA AND 



FLOWER-SNAKE INSECTS FISH AND FISHING ESTABLISHMENTS 



BUFFALOES HARES GOATS PIGS DOGS DOMESTIC FOWLS. 



THE fruits of the Indian islands since their first 

 discovery, have been held in the highest esteem, and 

 though neither care nor expense has been spared in 

 endeavouring to cultivate them in other countries, as 

 India, Ceylon, and the West Indian islands, they have 

 never succeeded, though the fruits of these countries 

 grow with the greatest luxuriance in the Archipelago. 

 " Malaya's nectared mangustin" has been by all 

 writers placed at the head of the native lists of fruits, 

 its delicious and delicate flavour having gained it a 

 place in the estimation of Europeans over the rich and 

 luscious Durian. In my opinion, though both of these 

 are exceedingly fine, the Lansat (Lancium), when well 

 ripened, has a peculiar aromatic flavour combined 

 with all the delicacy of the mangustin, which renders 

 its firm, transparent, and jelly-like pulp much more 

 agreeable. The ' mangustin,' or, as the natives call it, 



