Malay Houses at tlie Anchorage, Sarawak 



CHAPTER XIII. 



SARAWAK. 



Entrance to Eiver — Antimony Anchorage — Tamuh-puti — Drift-wood — Town 

 of Kuohing — Former condition of Sarawak— Sir James Brooke — Prospects 

 of the Settlement— The Tuan Muda — The Dyaks; their Superstitions — Miss 

 Burdett Coutts' Estate — Gamhier planting — Flying Sq^uirrel — Flying 

 Lizard — Flying Foxes — Vegetable Productions — Earn — Italian Naturalists 

 — Quadrupeds — Domestic Animals — Dyed Fowls — Eeef at Pulo Barun- 

 dum. 



On the 17th September myjimgle rambles came to an 

 end, and we set sail for the Sarawak Eiver, which we began 

 to approach on the 21st. Tie entrance is marked by the 

 bold promontory of Tanjong Po, a wooded limestone head- 

 land with sandy bays at its foot ; while further westward 

 rises a yet higher point, Tanjong Sipang, — the two including 

 a mountainous peninsula, upon which Mount Santubon, 2712 



