Muruns to get fowls. Up stream to day, Mr. Beveridge
obtained a piece of quartz containing iron pyrites and
copper in small quantities, and also some quartz which
evidently comes from a vein running through serpentine.
In the afternoon specimens of quartz containing iren
pyrites with traces of copper sulphide were brought
from the next ravine.
In our ravine the sun climbs over our ridge at
about 9 a.m., and sets behind the other ridge at 3.30
p.m. Even in the middle of the day it is cold, and the
men were always huddled up in their blankets,. The
thick foliage prevents any warmth getting down to us,
while the torrent, from whose banks we are only a few
yards distant, creates a cool breeze. The roar of this
stream reminds one of two or three locomotives at very
high pressure blowing off steam, and any conversation
has to be carried on in very loud tones. To-night it
rained in torrents, and everything got very wet, as my
waterproof sheets are useless, and we have no big
leaves. As night drew on the pitchy darkless reminded
one of a coal-mine heading.
Oct. 10th.—Men returned from Muruns with, a very
little ric e ; nothing else to be had. The Muruns people
threaten to fell trees across the path between this and
Kino ram, making their excuse the sickness at Bongon;
but if they do so, it will be out of mere spite. Blasting
towards the top of Tumboyonkon revealed limestone
cropping out there. Mr. Beveridge had an attack of
fever, and my leg is now so bad that I cannot walk.
Oct. 12th.—How I got back to Kinoram I can hardly
tell, but I know that I was in great pain all the way.
A buffalo took me to Bongon on the 13th, and on the
15th I arrived at Kudat quite done up.
The elevations which appear in this report are only
approximations, but I am now in a position to determine
the various altitudes by observation, and in
my second Kinoram report I shall give the observed
heights.
THE HOUSE AT PAMPANO-, MAEUDU E IV E R .4
jFrom a Sketch by Frank Hatton. (See page 235.)
4 This is taken from a sketch-book that came home in Frank’s
boxes. It contained several other water-colour drawings, but the
Pampang house was the only finished one. The mountain of Tum-
boyon'kon had evidently a great charm for him. His sketch-book
contains the commencement of a careful drawing of it from the river,
and the beginning of a close study of the highest elevations of Kina-
Balu, with a suggestion, of sunset in the- sky.