gara and killed ten men. The river Sepulut men
are said to live on a big river whose mouth is not far
from Silam, and which therefore must be either the
Siboku or the Sumbakong.
Feb. 6th.—Bar. '28.5. At 8.20, -D. 170° (S.E.),
started on foot. At 8.30 travelling along river-bank,
80 to 100 feet high. Sandstone. At 8.40-, 160° (S.E.).
Height, 100 feet. At 9.25, 130? (S.E.), flood.
Continuing our arduous way along places where
a slip would have been fatal, we arrived at 9.55
on the river again, and the country to the S. and S.E.
seemed more open and less hilly. Our direction 110°
(S.E.). Elevation, 100 feet. Carangan composed of
red and black ferruginous sandstone. At 10.30 got
on some prahus, which luckily . were going up the
river. 110° (S.E.). Two miles per hour.
Feb. 7th.—Prahus came up at 9, having been upset
four times. We lost several paddles, some rice, and
the men a lot of other small things. At 10.40 got
away up stream. . . . As we proceed the country
becomes flatter and flatter. . . . At 3.30 stopped.
Elevation 20 feet.
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Feb. 8th.—At 2.15 arrived at Tungara, where we
nearly had a row, all through a misunderstanding
with the Muruts, which, had not some traders
arrived just in time, would have ended in a fight.
The Tungara people took our. party for people
from the Upper Kinabatangan (Millian), with whom
they are in feud, and who are also Muruts of Tungara.
My men say they resemble the Padan people.
Feb. 9th.—Tracing back Witti’s letter to some
Tungara men named Silomboks. Witti is said to have
given it at Telonangoh, which is a Tungara campong,
at the head of the Pinungah. From Telonangoh, Witti
was going to the Sepulut, which is a five-days’ journey
on to the Simbokong, at the junction of that river with
the Rouhab.
At 9.15, 310° (N.W.) Bar. 29.75. .
Tungara: houses, 6; men, 25; women, 36; headman,
“ Kawangin.”
Description: Short hair, inclined to be frizzy; dark
skins ; wear chawat about two inches wide. Use spears,
sumpitans, and parangs. At 9.45, 200° (S.W.).
. At 10.20 stopped at a carangan and secured
specimens of coal, sandstone, and clay. A high waterfall
eventually stopped us. Much against will had to
go back, as river much flooded. Natives know of no
outcrop of coal about here, but there must be one
somewhere.
At 1.25 got back to last Tumbanoi huts. Torrents
of rain. The most terrible day ever spent, shooting
rapids. Nearly over in one rapid; we stuck half-way
down on some stones, and the prahu nearly broke in
two.
At Tungara our prahus came to the bank, and,
fearing nothing, we walked up to a place where several
Muruts were making a new house. We entered, and I
told my interpreter to buy a native bamboo-case for
keeping tobacco and light (bamboo, piece of china, and
touchwood). There were about seven or eight men in
the house, and I noticed that, in spite of my interpreter,
one by one they slipped away and went into the jungle,
taking their sumpitans, spears, &c., and making as if
they would shoot birds or monkeys. My men became
suspicious, and they also one by one went away to get
their guns and other weapons. The interpreter and myself
were at last the only occupants of the house, when I