. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . ldsover the soft mud on the river-bank. His boat-house is a polestuck in the mud, and his wharf is a slimy, slipper^, slanting log,reaching down from the top of the bank, across the mud, and intothe water indefinitely. If your Malay is really industrious and en-terprising, he may even go so far as to cut a few rough notchesalong the top of his landing-log ; but even then it is a difficult andperilous feat for a booted European to make a landing just afterthe tide has gone o
. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . ldsover the soft mud on the river-bank. His boat-house is a polestuck in the mud, and his wharf is a slimy, slipper^, slanting log,reaching down from the top of the bank, across the mud, and intothe water indefinitely. If your Malay is really industrious and en-terprising, he may even go so far as to cut a few rough notchesalong the top of his landing-log ; but even then it is a difficult andperilous feat for a booted European to make a landing just afterthe tide has gone out and left a good thick deposit of slippery mudall along the top of the wharf. As we neared the capital a lofty green peak seemed to risefrom just behind the town, but in reahty it was several milesbeyond. It was Matang Peak, three thousand one hundred andsixty-eight feet in height. We passed a number of Malay housesand stragghng villages strung along the banks, passed a flourishingpottery, a warehouse containing a million rattan canes, a numberof small boats and a few large ones, came to some airy European ^ i 11-. ^ ^&. ^j iUin .^ rA « o a >^ SAEAWAK, PAST AND PEESENT. 339 houses, rounded a little promontory and came in sight of the snow-white walls and battlemented tower of the new prison. We passedthe point, the clean white go-down (business house) of theBorneo Company, and next to it the long sheds in which the racing-boats are housed from one New Years Day to the next. Whereverun Englishman goes he takes with him all his national institutions,and from Nova Zembla to New Zealand, wherever two or threeEnghshmen are gathered together, there will they have their an-nual races and regatta ; their club, theatricals, and athletic sports ;their Times, Punch, and Bass pale ale. Forty-six hoiu-s from ourstarting finds us at Sarawak, here known ouly as Kuching—theMalay for Cat—sixteen miles from the sea and four hundredand twenty miles from Singapore. After the Borneo Compa
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