CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
The Borneo Hunters and Explorers 1
CHAPTER II.
A Voyage Up the Sarawak River 10
CHAPTER III.
Something About Borneo and Its People 19
CHAPTER IV.
A Speculation in Crocodiles 29
CHAPTER V.
A Hundred and Eight Feet of Crocodile 39
CHAPTER VI.
The Voyage Up the Sadong To Simujan 48
CHAPTER VII.
A Spirited Battle With Orang-outangs 58
CHAPTER VIII.
[x]A Performance of Very Agile Gibbons 67
CHAPTER IX.
A Visit to a Dyak Long-House 77
CHAPTER X.
The Manners and Customs of the Dyaks 87
CHAPTER XI.
Steamboating through a Great Forest 96
CHAPTER XII.
A Formidable Obstruction removed 106
CHAPTER XIII.
The Captain's Astounding Proposition 115
CHAPTER XIV.
Down the Simujan and up the Sarawak 125
CHAPTER XV.
On the Voyage to Point Cambodia 134
CHAPTER XVI.
An Exciting Race in the China Sea 143
CHAPTER XVII.
The End of the Voyage to Bangkok 153
CHAPTER XVIII.
Louis's Double-Dinner Argument 163
CHAPTER XIX.
[xi]A Hasty Glance at Bangkok 172
CHAPTER XX.
A View of Cochin-China and Siam 181
CHAPTER XXI.
On the Voyage To Saigon 191
CHAPTER XXII.
In the Dominions of the French 201
CHAPTER XXIII.
A Lively Evening at the Hotel 211
CHAPTER XXIV.
Tonquin and Sights in Cholon 221
CHAPTER XXV.
Several Hilarious Frolics 231
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Voyage across the China Sea 241
CHAPTER XXVII.
Some Account of the Philippines 250
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Description of an Earthquaky City 260
CHAPTER XXIX.
Going on Shore in Manila 270
CHAPTER XXX.
[xii]Excursions on Shore and up the Pasig 280
CHAPTER XXXI.
Half a Lecture on Chinese Subjects 290
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Continuation of the Lecture 300
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The Conclusion of the Lecture 310
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Sight-seeing in Hong-Kong and Canton 321
CHAPTER XXXV.
Shang-Hai and the Yang-tsze-Chiang 332
CHAPTER XXXVI.
The Walls and Temples of Pekin 342
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THE BORNEO HUNTERS AND EXPLORERS
The Guardian-Mother, attended by the Blanche, had conveyed the tourists, in their voyage all over the world, to Sarawak, the capital of a rajahship on the north-western coast of the island of Borneo. The town is situated on both sides of a river of the same name, about eighteen miles from its mouths.
The steamer on which was the pleasant home of the millionaire at eighteen, who was accompanied by his mother and a considerable party, all of whom have been duly presented to the reader in the former volumes of the series, lay in the middle of the river. The black smoke was pouring out of her smokestack, and the hissing steam indicated that the vessel was all ready to go down the river to the China Sea. Her anchor had been hove up, and the pilot was in the pilot-house waiting for the commander to strike the gong in the engine-room to start the screw.
Just astern of the Guardian-Mother was a very[2] trim and beautiful steam-launch, fifty feet in length. The most prominent persons on board of her were the quartette of American boys, known on board of the steamer in which they had sailed half round the world as the "Big Four." Of this number Louis Belgrave, the young millionaire, was the most important individual in the estimation of his companions, though happily not in his own.
Like a great many other young men of eighteen, which was the age of three of them, while the fourth was hardly sixteen, they were fond of adventure,—of hunting, fishing, and sporting in general. They had gone over a large portion of Europe, visited the countries on the shores of the Mediterranean, crossed India, and called at some of the ports of Burma, the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Celebes, and had reached Sarawak in their explorations.
They had visited many of the great cities of the world, and seen the temples, monuments, palaces, and notable structures of all kinds they contain; but they had become tired of this description of sight-seeing. When the island of Borneo was marked on the map as ..
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