136 BORNEO. [chap. v. 



I never afterwards lived in a solitary jungle-house with a 

 low boarded and whitewashed verandah, so constructed as 

 to prevent insects at once escaping into the upper part of 

 the house, quite out of reach. After my long experience, 

 my numerous failures, and my one success, I feel sure that 

 if any party of naturalists ever make a yacht-voyage to 

 explore the Malayan Archipelago, or any other tropical 

 region, making entomology one of their chief pursuits, it 

 would well repay them to carry a small framed verandah, 

 or a verandah-shaped tent of white canvas, to set up in 

 every favourable situation, as a means of making a col- 

 lection of nocturnal Lepidoptera, and also of obtaining rare 

 specimens of Coleoptera and other insects. I make the sug- 

 gestion here, because no one would suspect the enormous 

 difference in results that such an apparatus would pro- 

 duce ; and because I consider it one of the curiosities of a 

 collector's experience to have found out that some such 

 apparatus is required. 



When I returned to Singapore I took with me the Malay 

 lad named Ali, who subsequently accompanied me all 

 over the Archipelago. Charles Allen preferred staying 

 at the Mission-house, and afterwards obtained employment 

 in Sarawak and in Singapore, till he again joined me four 

 years later at Amboyna in the Moluccas. 



