ABSTRACT
"Malaya's nectared mangustin" has been by all writers placed at the head of the native lists of fruits, its delicious and delicate flavour having gained it a place in the estimation of Europeans over the rich and luscious Durian. Many of the snakes of Borneo are unknown to European naturalists. The largest of the snake tribe are the different kinds of the 'ular sawah', found in damp and marshy places: they are called boa by Europeans. The joints of the tail are crooked, so that the tail appears, as it were, tied in a knot, nor can the animal itself straighten it: this breed being mixed with the European for some generations does not entirely lose this remarkable deformity. The bread fruit is well known; two kinds exist in Borneo, but neither are esteemed by the natives or Europeans.
