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trations will, it is believed, add much to the interest and 

 value of the book. They have been made from my own 

 sketches, from photographs, or from specimens ; and such 

 subjects only have been chosen as would really illustrate 

 the narrative or the descriptions. 



I have to thank Messrs. Walter and Henry Woodbury, 

 whose acquaintance I had the pleasure of making in 

 Java, for a number of photographs of scenery and of 

 natives, which have been of the greatest assistance to me. 

 Mr. William Wilson Saunders has kindly allowed me to 

 figure the curious horned flies ; and to Mr. Pascoe I 

 am indebted for a loan of two of the very rare Longicorns 

 which appear in the plate of Bornean beetles. All the 

 other specimens figured are in my own collection. 



As the main object of all my journeys was to obtain 

 specimens of natural history, both for my private collec- 

 tion and to supply duplicates to museums and amateurs,. I 

 will give a general statement of the number of specimens 

 I collected, and which reached home in good condition. I 

 must premise that I generally employed one or two,; and 

 sometimes three Malay servants to assist me; and for 

 nearly half the time had the services of an English' lad, 



