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RIVULETS. 
back witli a black-and-red pattern. Stripping off a 
portion of the loose and partially-detacbed bark, I 
was momentarily startled by the appearance of a 
little, nimble, dusky, splay-footed, flat-bellied gecko, 
a sort of lizard, Avhich was instantly taken up and 
made a prisoner, not, however, alas ! without the 
loss of his tail, which fell off in the struggle. A 
couple of yellow centipedes were more fortunate in 
their attempt to escape; dropping on the ground, 
they vanished in a most desperate hurry. Numerous 
shining, smooth thousand -legs” were coiled up in 
the rotten wood, and under the damp, close-laid 
masses of bark were the flattened forms of several 
strange bark-beetles. 
This wild tiger-haunted corner of Java is per- 
meated by small trickling rivulets which flow 
beneath the undergrowth. * Stooping down to talvo 
a drink at one of these (for the thermometer here 
stands at 90° in the shade), I noticed something 
which made me start. Eobinson Crusoe, when lie 
saw ‘‘ the print of a man's foot in the sand,” could 
not have been more completely taken aback than I 
