during my travels in
Indo-China. His Excellency J. J. Jusserand, French Ambassador at
Washington and his Excellency Phya Prabha Karavongse, Siamese Minister
at Washington, provided me with letters which obtained for me many
facilities in French Indo-China and in Siam. Nor am I unappreciative of
the many kindnesses shown me by James R. Bray, Esq., of New York City;
by Austin Day Brixey, Esq., of Greenwich, Conn.; and by Dr. Eldon R.
James, General Adviser to the Siamese Government. I also wish to
acknowledge my indebtedness to A. Cabaton, Esq., from whose extremely
valuable study of Netherlands India I have drawn freely in describing
the Dutch system of administration in the Insulinde. I have also
obtained much valuable data from "_Java and Her Neighbors_" by A. C.
Walcott, Esq., and from "_The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe_" by Ernest
Young, Esq.

E. ALEXANDER POWELL.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. MAGIC ISLES AND FAIRY SEAS 1

II. OUTPOSTS OF EMPIRE 25

III. "WHERE THERE AIN'T NO TEN COMMANDMENTS" 50

IV. THE EMERALDS OF WILHELMINA 74

V. MAN-EATERS AND HEAD-HUNTERS 99

VI. IN BUGI LAND 126

VII. DOWN TO AN ISLAND EDEN 143

VIII. THE GARDEN THAT IS JAVA 163

IX. PROSPECT RULERS AND COMIC OPERA COURTS 189

X. THROUGH THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE TO ELEPHANT LAND 208

XI. To PNOM-PENH BY THE JUNGLE TRAIL 246

XII. EXILES OF THE OUTLANDS 270

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A _real_ wild man of Borneo _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Hawkinson taking motion-pictures while descending the
rapids of the Pagsanjan River in Luzon 10

Members of Major Powell's party landing on the south
coast of Bali 10

The bull-fight at Parang 22

Dusun women 60

Dyak head-hunters of North Borneo 60

The Jalan Tiga, Sandakan 70

A patron of a Sandakan opium farm