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and the dolphins left the ship ; this fish kept a long* time near the 

 ship. They said it was the (F. missing in M. S.) which has the 

 beautiful shagreen for its skin. 



13. — We had very bad weather last night, heavy storms 

 with thunder and lightning. Early in the morning I saw a 

 snake of about two feet long pass the ship ; it was very thin 

 and had a slim little head, its colour was bright yellow, with 

 narrow dark blue stripes across the body. Towards midday I 

 had the opportunity of seeing another specimen of the same kind. 

 This had only very narrow blue stripes about three lines wide, 

 while the yellow was as wide as a fing'er. 



I saw to-day the high mountains of the continent and also 

 those of Pullu Parah, which we passed towards midday; although 

 we were very far from them, we could distinctly see that they 

 were covered with trees up to their very tops, and also more 

 inland there were big forests. The word of Pullu is the Malay 

 name for island. We passed Pullu Din-Din in the afternoon, 

 having Pullu Samlong* straight before us, and Pullu Scharf at 

 our right ; the latter is an uninhabited island on the left of the 

 continent. 



14. 15. 16. — We had continued contrary winds from the 

 East and South East, strong gusts of rain, which kept us for three 

 days near the Sambilangs islands. (Pulau Sembilan.) I had to 

 limit my observations to whatever object chance might lead past 

 our ship, amongst these was the Papilio argenor. Some speci- 

 mens were driven on board by the violent rain, they were some- 

 what different from the description Linne gives. The upper 

 wings had black veins on the surface and near the edge there is 

 a spot on each of them. There are three oblong clubshaped wide 

 stripes going from the base towards the inner edge, they are of 

 a faint bluish white colour. At the lower edge there are seven 

 fine stripes between the veins, they are somewhat larger at the 

 top, but very fine towards the edge of the wing, and finish off 

 before reaching the ends of the wings, those at the inner edge 

 are more like fine dots. All these stripes and dots are broader 

 and whiter on the lower side. The lower wings are black on the 

 top at the base, but afterwards they are white with black veins, 

 which looked like an irregular wide band across the wings slanting 

 towards the inner side. 



* Pulau Sembilan. t Fulau Jara. 



