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years ago (February, 1909), and had soon determined to go to 

 that mountain, lind the very spot, if possible, where Wallace 

 lived, spend the same months there as Wallace did, and devote 

 myself to catching insects just in the same way that he did. To 

 hopes of thinking out another epoch-making theory I did not 

 aspire, but I did hope that my collection of insects would not 

 fall far short of those recorded by him, and in this I was not 

 disappointed. Circumstances prevented me from going to 

 Serambu until January of this year (1912), and it was with the 

 keenest anticipation that I started from Kuching at 3 p.m. on 

 January 19th in the Borneo Company's little steam-launch 

 * Patricia.' My companions for the trip were Mr. Harrison W. 

 Smith, who was as desirous as I " to step where Wallace trod," 

 two museum collectors (Sea-Dayaks), two Land-Dayaks, and our 

 two Chinese boys. A three hours' journey up-river in the 

 launch brought us to Busau, once a populous place on account 

 of the antimony works. From here we walked some three or 

 four miles to a place called Paku, where we had arranged to 

 spend the night in the Government bungalow. Unfortunately, 

 as the sun set soon after 6 p.m., we soon found ourselves 

 stumbling along a slippery path in the dark, which was made 

 no nicer by a heavy downpour of rain. Our luggage and retinue 

 followed on little trolley-cars, arriving about 10 p.m., after 

 successfully negotiating sundry little differences of opinion 

 between the car and the line, which, while adding character 

 to the line, at the same time serve to distinguish it from our 

 memories of the London to Bath portion of the Great Western 

 Eailway. 



At Paku the mountain faced us due east, and we learnt that 

 there were two sites of former bungalows, one to the south, 

 where a resident of this district used to spend some days, and 

 the other on the northern end of the mountain on a spur called 

 Peninjau ; this was the site of the old bungalow built by the 

 Kajah. The Dayaks who had come down to fetch our baggage 

 explained that nothing was left of either of these bungalows, 

 and that both sites were all overgrown, especially the latter, 

 which they said was indistinguishable now from the old jungle. 

 However, this last was our objective, so off we started that 

 morning, and after an hour and a half of hot walking we came to 

 a Dayak village on the lower slopes of the mountain ; here we 

 deposited our baggage, and, taking three men with us, Mr. Smith 

 and I proceeded on up to ** explore," or rather to see how far 

 the Dayaks could be believed in their account of the place. Just 

 above the village the path lay over some huge boulders, and 

 these had been bridged by a series of bamboos placed end on ; 

 some of these were notched to give a foothold, others were 

 not ; to some were attached hand-rails, to others not. Having 

 respectfully and successfully negotiated this portion of the Dayak 



