1046 The American Naturahst. [December, 
and the same paucity of species and lack of expected genera 
was noticeable. While we were here, baskets of fruit called cara- 
g0 were brought to us, of a kind entirely new to me, but appar- 
ently identical with a well-known Bornean fruit. They were 
hanging in clusters, and each fruit was of the size of a small 
orange, and strawberry red and covered with soft red spines. On 
opening the thin shell, which was much after the manner of the 
Chinese Zichi, there was found a mass of light-colored, juicy pulp 
surrounding a large flattened seed. The fruit was excellent in 
quality, and appeared worthy of cultivation, theugh the circum- 
stances may have had something to do with our appreciation of it. 
Weat the same time heard of another fruit, not yet ripe, but so 
abundant and rich that the wild tribes got fat upon it. This was 
called w/z, and from the description as well as the name must be 
the durian of the farther east. The next day Pedro, our guide, 
arrived,—a man of some consequence, and an owner of land 
and buffaloes. He came mounted upon a water buffalo, and with 
a boarspear as a weapon. The river now narrowed to fifty or 
sixty feet of water, and a broad bar of coarse sand or shingly 
gravel on one side, and on the other a low bank of ten or fifteen 
feet, reaching up to the level forest above. The stream appeared 
to approach gradually nearer the mountains, which were. in plain 
sight on the right. Little clearings were scattered along the 
river for several miles, and our progress was so slow that as we 
neared the last of these the afternoon was half spent, and we 
stopped for the night. The next morning another Indian, Antonio, 
a famous crocodile hunter of the Catuiran, who had heard of our 
trip, joined himself to our party in the hope of meat and pay. 
We now entered the unbroken wilderness, and Pedro led the way 
along the sand-bar on his buffalo, and I followed him on foot with 
-my gun, while Mateo and Juan came with the canoe. The 
river was now made up of curious reaches of deep and sluggish 
water, of half a mile or so in length; and then there would be a 
shallow rapid for a few yards, over which the water roared as it 
dashed down, and where our men had to take hold of the canoe 
and by their force drag it up into the quiet water above. As the 
heat of the day came on the sand and gravel became as hot as 

