The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo.
By WILLIAM T. HORNADAY,
Chief Taxidermist U. S. National Museum.
One vol., 8vo, pp. xxii. 512, two folding maps and 51 illustrations. Price, $3.00.
THE EXPEDITION AND ITS OBJECT.
The author relates the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo; and certainly no richer hunting-ground could be found anywhere else in the world. Mr. Hornaday is chief taxidermist in the United States National Museum. He was formerly connected with Professor Ward’s Natural Science Museum of Rochester, N. Y., and his expedition to the East was in the interests of that establishment. While his book is in some respects like such works as those which Du Chaillu and Sir Samuel W. Baker have written to delight and interest a multitude of readers, he has imparted a vast amount of information, a large part of which is new and of the greatest moment to the naturalist.
Mr. Hornaday started from New York in 1876. From England he went finally south to India, arriving at Bombay; he went across country to Benares; from here he made an expedition to the north to Cawnpore and Agra. From Benares he worked his way to Calcutta, journeyed down the Bay of Bengal to Madras; southward again, he made a complete circuit of Ceylon, then to the Malay Peninsula, and finally to Borneo, where his adventures with the orangutan were met, ending his two years of fruitful and entirely successful search. The illustrations are many, and most of them are taken from Mr. Hornaday’s own sketches. Though it may seem to be stating much, it certainly may be truly said that a more interesting book of travel and adventures was never published.
“Decidedly the most interesting and instructive book of travel and adventure in the East Indies it has ever been our good fortune to read.”—Baltimore News.
“An entertaining volume.... The author has proved his ability to write a good book of travel.”—Morning Post (London).
“To the naturalist, Mr. Hornaday’s book cannot but be as deeply interesting as to the sportsman and traveller.... It deserved to be distinguished from among the mass of books of sporting adventure.”—Melbourne Argus.