EDITOR'S PREFACE 



desirous of information concerning the political and social condition 

 of Sarawak at the present day the author has added a special 

 chapter. 



A word is necessary regarding this English presentment of the 

 original Nelle Foreste di Borneo. It is not a literal translation of the 

 latter. Somewhat liberally paraphrased by Professor Giglioli, 

 it has at the same time undergone various emendations and 

 additions at the hands of the author, while some appendices 

 of more or less purely botanical interest have been omitted. For 

 the English rendering the present writer is in great measure 

 responsible. He has derived considerable enjoyment from the 

 book, for it recalled pleasant memories of his own experiences 

 as a wandering naturalist in Bornean jungles some twenty years 

 ago. What would he not have given for the companionship in his 

 journeys of so skilled a botanist and so enthusiastic a nature-lover 

 as the author of this volume ! 



F. H. H. GUILLEMARD. 



Cambridge, October 1904. 



