Chapter I: Front Matter

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BY
H. DE W.

CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & CO.
_LUDGATE HILL, LONDON E.C._

To
JOHN LANCASTER, ESQ.,
OF
BILTON GRANGE, NEAR RUGBY, WARWICKSHIRE.
This Volume
IS DEDICATED, WITH THE BEST WISHES OF
THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE

Our Plan of Travel Outfitters--Journey to Marseilles--
Departure--"The Inevitable"--Journey Out--Singapore--
Leave for Kuching--The _Aline_--"Talang-Talang"--The
Sarawak River--Kuching--The Bazaar, &c.--Comfortable
Quarters 9

CHAPTER II.

Territory of Sarawak--History of the Country--Raja Brooke
and Muda Hasim--Rebellions in Sarawak--Brooke proclaimed
Raja--Chinese Insurrection--Military and Naval
Establishment--Exports--Progress of Sarawak--Death of Sir
James Brooke 24

CHAPTER III.

Kuching--Society--The Club--Amusements--The _Sarawak
Gazette_--The Bazaar--Health of Kuching--Life in
Kuching--Rats--Preparations for Journey to the Matang
Mountain 36

CHAPTER IV.

Travel in Borneo--Travelling Boats--Leave for Matang--
Our Crew--Alligators--Mosquitoes--Matang Bungalow--The
Garden--Ascend the Mountain--The Waterfall--A Nasty
Jump--View from the Summit--Snakes--Return to Kuching 44

CHAPTER V.

The Rejang Residency--Wild Tribes of the Interior--Start
for Rejang--Timber Ships--Sibu--Attack by Katibus--A
Dinner Party--The Fireship--Kanowit--"Jok"--Kanowits'
Dwellings--Human Heads--"Bones" and "Massa Johnson" 58

CHAPTER VI.

Leave Kanowit--Scenery--War Canoes--Arrive at Kapit--
Wild Tribes--Kayan Burials--Head Feast--Lat--His
Family--Tattooing--The Sumpitan--Kayan and Dyak War
Dances--The Kok-Goo--The Bock Expedition to Central
Borneo--Cannibalism--Return to Kuching 75

CHAPTER VII.

Sport in Borneo--The Orang-Utan--His Habits--Start for
Sadong--A Rough Journey--Sadong--The Fort and Village--L.
Capsized--The Mines--Our Cook--The Abang--Start for Mias
Ground--Our Hunt for Orang--Lost in the Forest--Leave for
Sadong--An Uncomfortable Night--Small-Pox--Manangs--A Dyak
Don Juan--Return to Kuching 93

CHAPTER VIII.

Preparations for Departure--Leave Sarawak--A Squall--A
Dutch Dinner--Batavia--Weltereoden--Life in Java--
Buitenzorg--Koerapan--Dutch Soldiers--A Review--Modes
of Execution in the Archipelago--The World-Wide
Circus--Return to Singapore--Leave for Europe--Gibraltar 114

CHAPTER IX.

Cadiz Custom-House Officers--Spanish Courtship--
Marketplace--Leave for Seville--Jerez de la Frontera--
Seville--Pilate's House--Las Delicias--Triana--Madrid--
Bull Fighting--"Espadas"--A Bull Fight--Frascuelo--
Cruelty to Horses--Leave for Paris--A Stormy Passage--
Home Again--Adieu 128

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