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CHAPTER XVI 



The Rotang Yielding Dragon's Blood — Singhi Hill — Notable 

 Palms and Their Uses — Across the Forest — Rotang Jer- 

 nang — Manner of Extracting Dragon's Blood — The Liran — 

 Singular Fungi— A Night Bivouac — Giant Palm Leaves — 

 Dyak Methods of Making Fire — Fishing in Forest Streams 

 —Varied Uses of Bamboos — Mobility of the Toes in Malays 

 and Dyaks — Notes on the Fishes of the Sarawak River — 

 Poisonous Fishes and Singing Fishes — A Thief-Detecting 

 Fish — Fishing with the " Tuba " . . . . . . 231 



CHAPTER XVII 



From Labuan to Bruni on the Rajah's Gunboat — My Malay 

 Servants — Labuan — Mr. H. Low — The Vegetation at Labuan 

 — Ptilocercus Lowii — Kina Balu and its Nepenthes — Bruni 

 — Reception by the Sultan — Decay of the City — Parasites 

 in Oysters — On the Name Borneo — Climates of Bruni and 

 Labuan ......-••• 2 42 



CHAPTER XVIII 



Bintulu — The Mellanaos — Flotsam and Jetsam — Detritus 

 Floating on the Sea — Additions to My Collections — India- 

 Rubber-Producing Creepers— New Sea Plant— Buketans 

 and Pennans — Idols and Tombs of the Mellanaos — Ascent of 

 the Bintulu — The Tubao — Tombs and Houses of the Kayans 

 Big Tapang Planks— A Festival— Curious Musical Instru- 

 ment — Camphor and the Methods of Extracting it — Funeral 

 Ceremonies— Notes on the Kayans— The Upas and the Pre- 

 paration of the Poison — Iron Ore — New and Interesting 

 Plants— A Singular Bird— The Minuang— Affluents of 

 the Bintulu — A Wild Durian . ... • • • 2 5^ 



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