Excerpt from North Borneo: Explorations and Adventures on the Equator A long association with the East, an intimate ao quaintance with the work which has been accomplished in North Borneo, and the fact that, during my official residence at Hong Kong, in connection with the British North Borneo Company, it fell to my lot to report home the death of Mr. Frank Hatton, may perhaps be thought to give appropriateness to the few prefatory words which I am glad to have the Opportunity of addressing to the readers of the latest addition to the literature of biography and exploration. This volume is an unpretentious record of useful and interesting work, and at the same time a tribute from a loving father to a devoted son; a tender in memoriam to a young life, rich in promise, but suddenly cut off by a sad mishap, ere youth had matured into manhood, and when distinction had already been achieved in the paths of science and research. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.