CONTENTS 



PAGE 



— Monkeys — The Nasalis and the Shape of the Nose in Man 

 — Birds in Captivity — Snakes — Fascinated Frogs — The 

 Flying Lizard — Flying Animals — The Mammals of Borneo 

 — Big Game in Sarawak . . . . . . .25 



CHAPTER IV 



Missions — Bishop MacDougall — Up the Batang-Lupar — The Bore 

 — Banteng — Christianised Dyaks — Nepenthes Bicalcarata — 

 Simanggan — Undup — The Sea-Dyaks . . . .40 



CHAPTER V 



On the Serambo Hill — Land-Dyak Village and HeadJHouse — 



plninjau porphyritic hllls true and false swifts with 



Edible Nests — Wallace and his Nocturnal Moth-Hunting 



■ — gunong skunyet vegetation of the secondary forests 



— Dyak Pathways — Limestone Cliffs and their Caves — The 

 Durian — Notes on the Land Dyaks . . . . -53 



CHAPTER VI 



Excursion to Mount Mattang — Malay Adzes — Cynogale Bennetti 

 — In Search of a Road to the Summit— Some Methods of Seed 

 Dispersion — Difficulties in Getting Botanical Specimens — 

 How a Forest can be Explored — My Reasons for Climbing 

 Mattang — The " Umbut " — Dwarf Palms — Thin Rotangs — 

 A Lanko — Sudden Storms — Impressions in the Mattang 

 Forest — Phosphorescence and Fireflies — Insects, Flowers 

 and Light — Quop — Flying-Foxes ..... 66 



xiv 



