III.
A BUNDLE OF LETTERS AND THE MASSACRE OF WITTI.
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On the 'way—Sharks and divers—Ceylon and Singapore—Bungalow
life at Labuan—^Social amenities—Witti—In Borneo
—-Expeditions in the interior—Tropical floods—“ Impossible
to go on; impossible to go hack ”—Letters from home
—An eventful day—Head-hunting—To Kinoram for a little
rest—Food and dress—Missionary work—Homan tic scenery
—The perils of travel-—Assassination of Witti and an
exploring party—Sketch of Witti’s career—Thoughts of
home—Last letters. ' . .7 .. ' . ' 63
IV.
DISASTER AND DEATH.
Good news—Five days later—Sad letters—“ A bright, fearless,
brave life ”—On the Segama River—Hunting in the jungle
" —The fatal accident—A devoted following—The silent
passenger—Tropical seenery—Bornean highlands and the
mountains of Pisgah—Inquest and verdict—A jungle ceme-
tery—The pathetic story told by Governor Treacher. . 95
la t t II.
DIARIES AND REPORTS OF EXPEDITIONS, OFFICIAL
PAPERS AND OTHER CHRONICLES.
I.
L IFE AT LABUAN.
The smallest British colony—Four miles from the great island
of Borneo—The North Bornean Malays—A native house—
The Flings-—The humming-birds of the East—The carpenter
bee and the mason-wasp—Coal Point—A deserted pit—
Pig-shooting—The goat-sucker—A monkey comedy—
Snakes—Native music.—A brilliant sunset with a dark,
cloud over Borneo—Looking forward . • • . 1 1 9
II.
ON THE SEQUATI AND KURINA RIVERS.
First impressions of exploration—A novel experience—Making
a Malay house—Working and watching—Digging for oil—
“ Orang Dusuns ”—Astonishing the natives—Flying foxes
—-Exploring and sporting—Tropical vegetation Lost in
the jungle—Pangeran Brunei—A sick chief—Trading with
the Dusuns—“ Never seen a white man before ”—Searching
for coal—Christmas-day on the equator—The slave
question—Protecting a fugitive—An anxious night—The
New Tear and a dark outlook—A Dusun house—“ I was
simply a nine days’ wonder —Keeping away- evil spirits—
“ Well, well, sir ! ”—Native women at work—Strange and
. picturesque scenes—Discoveries of coal and iron—Riding
on buffaloes—-Tropical floods—A perilous situation—
Geology of the Binkoka district . . . . . 135
III.
UP THE LABUK RIVER AND OVERLAND TO KUDAT.
Tropical forests—-A mysterious chief—Native ideas of gold—
—Discovery of a hill of pure talc—Leeches and rattans—-
Sin-Dyaks—A river accident—Head-hunters on the watch
—“ Like men with tails ”—Omens— “ Terrible news A
strange ceremony luckily concluded—A lovely scene—
“ The giant bills of Borneo”—Collecting upas juice—
Mineral prospects—Initiated into the brotherhood of the .
Bendowen Dusuns—“ Oh, Kinarringan, hear u s ! ”—Talking
to a dead man’s ghost—Tattooed heroes, and marks
denoting a coward—Rice harvests—“Only iron pyrites ”—
More brotherhood ceremonies—A model kampong—Hardships—
Inhospitable Ghauaghauaor Tunfoul men—Aghastly
scene—Not head-hunting, but head-stealing—Pig-killing,
and a dead man—Promise of minerals in the Sugut rivers—