A DECEITFUL AND REFRACTORY G UIDE .
From a drawing by W. H. Margetson. To face page 181.
' I got bearings of three hills. Here are the figures:
(1) bearing 260°, height about 4000 feet, distance
about three miles ; (2) bearing 275°, height 3500 feet,
distance about three and a half miles ; (3) bearing 235°,
distance about six miles. I noted the absence of any
large tributaries to the Labuk; all that we have passed
as yet being very small. . •
Early the next morning I told off a party of men,
with picks and shovels, to search some red river
gravels which had attracted my attention. I used the
remaining shovel myself, but unfortunately with no
valuable result. I found mica and chlorite schists
among the • other rocks. I t has rained a little ever
since we left Elopura, and to-day is showery. We
had to make continual halts, as the men said they
could not work in the rain. Passed a small kam-
pong on the left bank, named “ Konamas,” headman
“ Melana men, fourteen; women, thirty. Near this
village, on the opposite bank, stands “ Buis,” headman
“ H i d a l t h r e e men, ten women. The Dusun
countries inland, but not far from the river, are called
“ Anosyne” and “ Bokis,” both, I was told, populous
tribes. The people at Buis, who are half Dusun and
half Sulu, call themselves “ Orang Rungus.” They
say that near Kudat there are many more men of
their kind. They complained of the Dumpas men
very much, saying that they stole their goods and
swindled them. The headman showed me a common
pin-fire revolver, worth about $5, for which he paid
forty pounds of g u tta ; also a string of beads, worth
about twenty cents, which he had purchased for eight
pounds of gutta. He complained also of the Dumpas
men’s scales and weights, saying that one picul .of