reported—and walking for about an bour through
jungle and over sandstone, we at length arrived on the
top, 1300 feet. Our blasting operations revealed a
condition of things precisely similar to Madanao, the
foot of the hill being composed of limestone, the
sandstone appearing only on the higher parts towards
the summit.
Having no encouragement to continue investigations
in the Marudu, I determined to return to Kino-
ram, and from there make a trip to Sayup, in order
to see the Tampassuk, and get a view of the positions
of the mountains Tumboyonkon and Nonohan-
t-affaioh, with Q 3 reOgard to Kina Balu.
v.
Sept. 14th.—We got away to-day, and going via
Ranao and Timbang Batu, arrived in Kinoram on the
16th, with two buffaloes bringing rice enough to last
us our journey. We are obliged to take rice with us,
as there is none to be had in any of the districts we are
going to. Having had one day’s rest in Kinoram, we
were all ready on the evening of the 17th.
We left Kinoram at nine the next morning, and
travelling on without incident passed through Kias,
where Mr. Beveridge is still hard at work, and shortly
arrived at our old camping-ground in the pouring
rain. From here we branched away to the right, and
ascending a high hill arrived at Nonak: 3 houses;
headman, Kambigging. The place is situated on a
high hill, from where one can get a fine view of Tumboyonkon
and Konohan, which I begin to think are
only the termination of Nabalu.
From Nonak we took a W.S.W. direction, and
shortly afterwards arrived at the road to Kion, which
we followed, leaving the Pandassan3 and Tampassuk
path to the W. Our course now varied from S.W. to
W.S.W., and we were told that we should arrive at Kion
to-night this pleased us very much, although we could
hardly believe it. Crossed the stream Sorab, and then
struck the river Rumalow, a tributary of the Tampassuk,
which I at first mistook for that river. The
Rumalow evidently rises not far from the Kinoram in
Nonohan-t-agaioh, and many of the boulders consist of
aqueous rock. At 11, being at fault for a road, we
had to wait for our buffaloes with the guide. They,
however, soon came up, and we got away again. The
latter part of our way was through tall, cutting grass
—twelve to fourteen feet high—and it was very difficult
to make any way at all. One’s hands got cut, and '
owing to the rain the track was extremely slippery,
and we slid and tore ourselves very much during our
very tedious progress.
Towards evening arrived at Kion Gendokod quite wet
through, as we had been rained on steadily for the last
two hours. We were much disappointed on finding
that this Kion was not the one near Kina Balu; the
true Kion is called Kion Thome. Nonak to Kion about
thirteen miles, general direction S.W.
Having left Gendokod we crossed the Tampassuk
3 Captain Mundy’s narrative of the operations of H.M.S. Iris against
the pirate retreats in the waters of this district is among the most
interesting of Rajah Brooke’s Journal (John Murray, 1848), and contains
a stirring account of the defeat of the native pirates, and the
turning of the picturesque “ nests of the sea-robbers ” at Tampassuk
and Pandassan.
B