winding than formerly. . . . Banks now composed of
a conglomerate similar to the Kinoram, one that is
igneous and metamorphic rocks cemented by silica.
The men complain very much of “ Limantungs,” a
kind of leech. . . . At 1.30 saw houses floating down
stream. '¥ e have often heard of the Americans
rolling their houses, but these people fasten their
prahus together, make a raft, and then build their
bouses on the top. When sickness prevails, this is the
way the people forsake their countries.. , . . Kina-
batang stones, specimens of the 17-th. Sandstones,
ferruginous nnd fire clays. Also on the 18th. . . .
At 4.55 halted for the n ig h t; bar. 29.9. Sained in
torrents Just as we wanted to cook, and miserable
enough it was.
Jan. 20th.—Got away at 6.15, 280°. . . . At 7.25 got
to our first-carangan, D. 210° S.W., and one mile per
hour. At -7.50 passed a tributary on the left, ten
fathoms wide at mouth. Our course 260° (W.). . . .
Vast deposits of mud, formed of detritus, brought
down by the river, in which are imbedded canes,
sticks, and other vegetable matter in regular stratifications—
the future coal-beds of Borneo. Might
account for sandstones, as tat Siquati, containing
veins of a light coal. Where river bares itself, water
trick!ino- from banks much impregnated with oxide of
iron. . . . At 4.13 entered the Quamut, D. 300°
N.W., and stopped at the police-station. Elevation
to-day* 100 feet. The place Quamut is a miserable
hole ; and as it rains in torrents every day, I can’t see
how we can get to Silam. . . .
Jan. 21st.— Quamut is a lonely police-station at the
junction of the Kinabatangan and Quamut rivers, but
in the latter. After the wild scenes in Kinoram and
around Kina Balu, this country is flat and uninteresting,
and, from a mineral point of view promises, so
far, nothing. Rained very heavily all day. r Lamog ”
stream below Lukan, straight for Segama.
Jan. 22nd.—Left Quamut at 6.50; got back to
Kinabatangan at 7, and continued our course up
stream, D. 28° (N.E.). Could get no prahus and no
guide at Quamut, so thought it best to go on to
Pinungah and try there. . . . At 3.47 passed a large
tributary on the left (right bank), about twenty fathoms
wide, and, indeed, the. same as the Quamut; some
hills 1000 feet high in the distance. D. of our course
280°, 3.47 (W.).** * * *
Jan. 21th.—The river flooded; fearful state of
things; nothing but rain, rain, ra in ; cannot get on.
Bar. 29.5, ther. 26°. Left at 6.20. D. 240° W. . . .
The force of the current is terrific; the river being
flooded, we can only make about a mile and a half per
hour all day. At 4 stopped for the night, as the
force of the stream had tired the men out.
. Slept in a dead man’s house. Ghosts and ginger—
the Malay superstition. [This is evidently a memorandum
of material for future use.]
Jan. 25th.—Left dead man’s house at 6.20. D. 290°
(W.). Bar. 30°, ther. 27° 5'. Elevation got once
yesterday, fifty feet. No rain this morning, but the
river frightfully flooded. . . . At 1.30, 250° (W.).
From 1 to 2 looking for Durian only. Rain in
torrents. Durian yellow-skinned and red pulp.3 . . .
3 The durian grows on a large and lofty forest tree, somewhat
resembling an elm in its general character, but with a more smooth