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CHAPTER XIII 



Start for the Kapuas Lakes — Dyak Gallantry — On the River 

 Kantu — Native Tobacco Manufacture — Carding and Spinning 

 Cotton — Brass Workers — Curious Fishery — Rains and Floods 

 —Trial by Water — Ancient Jars — Flooded-out Insects — 

 Down the Kantu Again — Navigation in the Forest — In the 

 Umpanang — Strange Fishes — Black Water — On the Lakes — 

 — The Formation of Coal in Borneo — On the Lampei Hill 

 — Lake Plants— Hungry Dogs — Journey Back — Botanical 

 Results of the Excursion — Dyak Names — Freshwater Alg;e 

 — Orchard Herbs at Marop — Good Cattle Food . . .169 



CHAPTER XIV 



Different Species of Orang-Utan — Their Habitat, Food, etc. 

 —Peculiarities and Habits — The Sumatran Orang — An 

 Orang Foitus — Borneo and the Precursors of Man — Adapta- 

 tion to Environment — Variability of Species — A New Theory 

 of Evolution — Conditions Necessary for the Evolution of 

 Man and the Anthropoids — The Humanisation of the Anthro- 

 poids — The Place of Origin of Man . . . . .194 



CHAPTER XV 



The Malay Sampan — Excursion to Tanjong Datu — Pulo Sampa- 

 dien — The Dugong — A Pirate's Nest — Ascent of Tanjong 

 Datu — Lost in the Forest — Dyak Dogs — The Domestic Cat 

 of Borneo — The Westernmost Extremity of Borneo — Marine 

 Alg,e — The Return Journey — An Enchanted Hill — An 

 Unexpected Nocturnal Visit — Dangerous Food — At Lundu — 

 My First Attack of Malaria — Rivers Between the Lundu 

 and the Sarawak ........ 



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