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    350 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    Life Formerl H.M In . Tli 'S E Y Charge ...

    weakness supporters of of these table- poor turning tribes 1 . irit Even - now ing s and ome what of us not are ! ardent

    Under iC Social Life of , the sp Sea rapp Dayaks , , " the following * anecdote deserves a place among the noble deeds of women : —

    ins " tance Of the than warmth the following of married : the affection story ha I have with been his never to wife ld before heard in the , a but more it is s river triking worth _,

    in a repe place ating boat notorious . remarked Ipan , for a B man alau 4 1 h - c eating hief j , was alli gators bathing en a — ver when large lndra animal Lela , swimming a Lingga Malay , passing up the

    a , y w stream ould fol . ' low Up on hearin got g safel this y , u I p p , bu t t o middle ld he , stop is w of p ing the to stream g wash o up his the feet d steps disa , was and seized red he

    from by th view e alli . gator His , wife dragged , hearing into a the cry , turned round , and see , in an g her husband ppea ' s fateinto the rivershrieking' Take me also' and dived down at the

    , sprang , , , could spot where induce she her had to come seen the out of alli the gator water sink with She swam his prey about . _^ N " diving o persuasion in all

    die the with places her most husband dreaded at from last her , being friends a resort came . of _down ferocious and forcibl reptiles , , seekin moved g to er ; y

    to their house . " In 1858 Mr . St . Johnaccompanied by Mr . LowColonial

    Treasurer of , Labuan , ascended , the mountain of Kina Balu , , which is above 13000 feet in height . Amongst the natives the greatest

    surprise seems , to have been created by the coming of the explorers . Some conjectured that thirst for goldcopper , or precious stones ,

    , might account for their appearance in the neighborhood . One knowing individual guessed they were seeking the Lagundi tree ,

    whose fruit , when eaten , gives youth for countless years . The magnificent view from the mountain top calls forth our

    author _' s descriptive powers in full vigor . from edge "A this of face pointed view of granite rocks rounded , ; sweep while mass ing . on steep Here the farthest ly and up there for left above small the runnels 3 southern , 000 feet of peak water to a rugged looked passed

    a nooks over the . The granite rocks surface were , and often patches at an ang of le brushwood of nearly forty occup degrees ied the , so sheltered that I themat firstwith woollen socksand when

    worn was forced throug the skin to h , ascend with and left bare a feet bleeding , . It was and , a sad tender alternative surface , . as , After the roug hard h stone they work wore were we

    away , , writing reached in the it spot was where not the read Mr most , . as Low I returned had left it a in bottle unopened the , summit and to found its resting it intac ascend - t p — lace the .

    Lio abrupt atural w's G ravine wall -ully bars is , with one the of towering Climbing perpendicular singular on spots this rocks on look either over . side a We , deep till a chasm roug an h

    surrounde n d on three side way s b . y precipices , so deep , you that the eye could not reach , the bottombut the twitter of innumerable swallows could be distinctly

    pointed a heard sheer , as out preci they ; to pice flew me , b of in y . Mr flocks several . Low b thousan elow from . the There d cocoa feet , was and -nut no this grove descending was on the the here banks deep : fiss it of was the ure

    the Tampasuk very spot when where we were he had reclining left the there bottle , and . I proved was now that anxious he had to remembered reach one throug of those h peaks a thicket which of rhododendrons are visible from , bearing the sea a ; beautifu so h we descended l blood at -colored first Low while ' s flower G-ully , ,

    continued and made our to skirt way to the the rock westward y ridge . that It was rose roug to our walking right ; but , graduall we y incline entirelof immense slab

    leaving this , we advanced up an composed y s

    350 Notices Of Books.

    350 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/62/