NORTH BORNEO. 
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the use of this large brightly-coloured claw is I am unable to say, unless it, when folded 
across the front of the crab, successfully blocks up the burrow; they have also a tiny 
feeding-claw with which they shovel the green slimy weed to their mouths. There is 
another species with eyes sticking out from its head like the antennae of a butterfly : this 
species is beautifully adorned with cobalt-blue ; its whole occupation seems to be to eat as 
much green weed as possible, and it is a true vegetarian, and indignantly thrust away a 
piece of raw beef with which I was fishing. In the deeper pools amongst the mud may 
at times be seen a curious large boiled-looking lobster: this crustacean is very shy, moving 
about and vanishing into the mud on the least sign of alarm. I several times made 
collections of some of the little warrior crabs, which I put in a tin pot to carry them ; but 
the battle waged in this small space was so fierce that some seventy claws and legs were 
ownerless before I got back to my house. Insects of course we have in Labuan in plenty. 
The large bronze-blue-winged carpenter-bee bores neat holes into the poles of the 
bungalow, and, as I remarked before, has a particular spot on which it 
rests ; one bee I noticed for over a month always settled on the top of a 
bamboo-paling with no intention of boring a hole in it. The well-known 
mason-wasps build large edifices of mud on the poles which support the 
roof, filling the three cells into which these lumps of cow-dung and mud 
are divided with benumbed caterpillars and spiders, which live to be slowly 
devoured by the fat maggots or pupse of the wasp. Ant-lions drill hundreds 
of small pitfalls below the house, into which numerous ants are always 
tumbling. 
The rains are now nearly over, and we may expect a month or two 
of fine weather before the longer wet season sets in, which commences 
towards the middle of October and lasts until the middle of January ; but the 
same dates do not apply to more than a few hundred miles of any territory 
in the Archipelago—a range of mountains in some islands causes the wet 
season on one coast, while the other hardly gets a drop of rain. 
I had now two servants—a native, named Jumbol, as cook and general 
servant; and a boy of about ten years old, who was a friend of Jumbol’s: a 
dirtier urchin never breathed; he neither washed nor combed his hair, 
and was covered with that most disagreeable skin-disease “ kurrup.” I do 
not know why I ever accepted his services, but somehow his monkey-like 
appearance was interesting. I even made a drawing of him (see illustration 
facing p. 42), which took some time, as he seldom sat still, and one day 
wanted to wear a Turkish fez, another his dirty mop of hair would be tied 
up wuth rag, which suited him best. This boy fetched wood and water, 
and was named Boukar. The best and most faithful follower I had was a 
Kadyan named Nyhan ; this man acted as my bird-collector, and remained 
in my service until I returned home. 
KADYAN 
woman’s 
PADDLE. 
