X PREFACE 



out the light of experience it is inij)ossible to imagine 

 how much of interest and delight there is in store for the 

 student of man's primitive condition. However, as the 

 captain of Long Iram said to me in Long Pahangei, 

 "One must have plenty of time to travel in Borneo." I 

 have pleasure in recording here the judicious manner in 

 which the Dutch authorities deal with the natives. 



On a future occasion I shall hope to be able to pub- 

 lish a detailed report on several of the novel features of 

 my Bornean collections, especially as regards decorative 

 art, the protective wooden carvings called kapatongs, 

 the flying boat, etc. 



The first collections sent to Norway ran the risks in- 

 cident to war. Most of them were rescued from the 

 storehouses at Antwerp after the German occupation, 

 through the exertions of the Norwegian Foreign OtTice, 

 though a smaller part, chiefly zoological, appears to 

 have been lost in Genoa. Count Nils Gyldenstolpe, of 

 the Natural History Museum, Vetenskapsakademien in 

 Stockholm, who is determining the mammals collected, 

 informs me that so far a new species of flying maki 

 and two new subspecies of flying squirrels have been 

 described. 



To further my enterprise, liberal gifts of supplies were 

 received from various firms in Christiania: preserved 

 milk from Nestle & .Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co., 

 tobacco from Tiedeinann's Fabrik, alcohol for preserving 

 specimens from Loitens Braenderi, cacao from Freia 

 Chokolade Fabrik. A medical outfit was presented by 

 Mr. L. Sisscner, Apotheket "Kronen," Christiania, and 



