. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Koute by water or the river banks. Land routes. 180 MUes. Kapuas basin was completely dried up. In the Kutei district Bock traversed forests killed by the heat, and destitute alike of vegetation and animal life. Flora. But these are rare exceptions, and on the whole Borneo may be described as one vast forest, so dense and contiguous that, according to one obserA'er, apes might pass from one extremity of the island to another by swinging from branch to branch. The forest growths are interrupted only in some few districts by tracts covered with the herbaceous
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Koute by water or the river banks. Land routes. 180 MUes. Kapuas basin was completely dried up. In the Kutei district Bock traversed forests killed by the heat, and destitute alike of vegetation and animal life. Flora. But these are rare exceptions, and on the whole Borneo may be described as one vast forest, so dense and contiguous that, according to one obserA'er, apes might pass from one extremity of the island to another by swinging from branch to branch. The forest growths are interrupted only in some few districts by tracts covered with the herbaceous alang plant. Although differing little from that of the other large islands, the Bornean flora comprises a few peculiar forms, especially trees yielding good timber, gums,
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