CHAPTEE IV. 



BORNEO — THE ORANG-UTAN. 



T ARRIVED at Sarawak on November 1st, 1854, and 

 left it on January 25th, 1856. In the interval I 

 resided at many different localities, and saw a good deal of 

 the Dyak tribes as well as of the Bornean Malays. 1 was 

 hospitably entertained by Sir James Brooke, and lived in 

 his house whenever I was at the town of Sarawak in the 

 intervals of my journeys. But so many books have been 

 written about this part of Borneo since I was there, that 

 I shall avoid going into details of what I saw and heard 

 and thought of Sarawak and its ruler, confining myself 

 chiefly to my experiences as a naturalist in search of shells 

 insects birds and the Orang-utan, and to an account of a 

 journey through a part of the interior seldom visited by 

 Europeans. 



The first four months of my visit were spent in various 

 parts of the Sarawak River, from Santubong at its mouth 

 up to the picturesque limestone Mountains and Chinese 

 gold-fields of Bow and Bede. This part of the country 



