S4 BORNEO, [ciiAP. IV. 



rhinoceros, but saw none of the animals. We, however^ 

 kept a lire up ail night in case any of thuse creatui^s 

 should visit us, aiid two of our men declared that they did 

 one day see a rhinoceros. When our rice was finished, and 

 our boxes full of specimens, we returned to Ayer-Panas, 

 and a few days afterwards went on to 5ilalacca, and thence 

 to Singapore. Mount Ophir has quite a reputation for 

 fever, and all our iriends were astonished at our reckless- 

 neas in staying so long at its foot ■ but we none of us 

 suffered iu the least, and I shall ever look back with 

 pleasure to my trip, as being my first introduction to 

 mountain scenery iu the Eastern tropics. 



The meagrenesg and brevity of the sketch I have here 

 given of my visit to Singapore and the Malay Peninsula 

 is due to my having trusted chiefiy to some private letters 

 and a note-book, which were lost ; and to a paper on 

 Malacca and Moimt Ophir which was sent to the Eoyal 

 Geographical Society, but which was neither read nor 

 printed owing to press of matter at tlio end of a session, 

 (iLid the MSS- of which caunot now be found. I the less 

 regret this, however, as so many works have been written 

 on these parts ; and I always intended to pass lightly 

 over my travGls in the western and better known portions 

 of the Archipelago, in order to devote more space to the 

 remoter districts, alxmt which hardly auytliing has been 

 written in the English language. 



CHAPTER IV. 



BORNKO — TUE ORASfi-DTAJf. 



IABRIVED at Sarawak on November Ist, 1854, and 

 left it on January 25th, 1856. In the interval I 

 resided at many different localities, and saw a good deal of 

 the Dyak tribes as well as of the Bornean Malays. I was 

 hospitably enteitamed by Sir James Brooke, and lived in 

 his house whenever I was at the town of Sarawak in the 



