so that it was secured just at the right time. His name is coupled with a very beautiful pitcher plant, Nepenthes Rafflesiansis, from Borneo, and other botanical discoveries, one of which was an enormous vine growth from the same country. 66 Another Chinese characteristic very prominent are the small rowing boats, partially covered. These are generally known as sampans," very light to pull and handle. They are frequently rowed by women, sometimes a mother with her picaninny on her back plying for hire at the landing places. Many of these celestials form quite a water population, although nothing to compare with such cities as Canton, where half the inhabitants are like water fowl. SINGAPORE KOLEHS. SAILING BOATS.-"Kolehs," "Koleh Panjail" Malay name. These fishing boats are full of character, very long and narrow, rigged with a large sprit-sail and jib or staysail, and frequently a small mizen is set with a legof-mutton or jib head; the bow comes up to a heavy head with a corresponding stern post. The European fashion of regattas is warmly taken up wherever Englishmen go, and as a Crown colony Singapore must have a regatta, and that is the time to see "kolehs" at their best. The English in their love of water and anything in the way of water sports not only encourage their own idea of what boats should be, but do all in their power to mature the native ideas and models, by giving prizes to the local craft, an encouragement of which the Malays very readily avail themselves, whilst they are quick in taking up any improvement they see either in handling or tuning up a boat for racing purposes. Probably, for instance, they have seen some Englishman in his one rater at Singapore leaning over on the weather side with his feet under the "stringer” and his body over the gunwale to windward, as outside ballast; they adopt it at once, with this difference, that putting their feet on the gunwale and hanging on to the runners or shrouds the whole weight of the body becomes outside ballast to windward as shown in the illustration. How quickly fashions spread. In America the crew will lie out on boards; the “stringer" method to hold and support the legs comes from Sydney, and the Bourne End week in England of small raters affords many details of the same principle applied to obtain outside weather ballast. This is not the only sympton of native teachableness. of canvas, and garbs his pet to profusion. He likes plenty He loves the rush of waters with a roaring wake, with spray well over the bow, and he gets it; and if they do turn turtle, he can swim, and he likes it, being fairly amphibious and |