CHAPTER XIII. 



KINA BALU, h'id TAMPASSUK. 



Preparations — " Salaamat jelan," or safe voyage — Contrary winds — A 

 total wreck — A sea bath — Making the best of it — Native visitors 

 from the Bornean shore — Drying stores — Pigeon shooting — Foraging 

 — Football — Tent life — A new boat — A marine visitor — Pulo Tiga — 

 A fish dinner — Shore plants — Big fish — The Tampassuk — " The 

 Fatted Calf" — Start for Kina Balu— Bare hills — Land culture — 

 Bad roads — Ghinambaur village — Textile fibres — A chance shot — 

 Thrifty natives — Buffalo riding— A friendly chief — Sineroup — 

 Native wealth — Charms — Crossing swollen river — New Orchids — 

 Kambatuan — Rokos — Butterflies — Koung Green — Aboriginals from 

 the interior — Pretty weeds — Lemoung's death — Native ornaments — 

 Native cloth — Bee keeping — How to manage " guides " — " Kurow " 

 — Start for " Kina Balu "—Sleeping rock— Dusun cookery !— New 

 plants — More of the " guide " nuisance. 



It was now the end of July, and I had been waiting 

 four or five days, expecting the arrival of the steam- 

 ship Far East, in which I had hoped to have again 

 taken a passage, with my friend, Captain W. C. Cowie ; 

 but as his vessel was now overdue, and my own time was 

 limited, I resolved to leave in a native boat at all hazards. 

 I soon chartered a prahu, large enough to carry twenty 

 men, and our stores ; and on July 31st I was ready to 

 start. I had given my Chinese "boy," Kimjeck, and 

 the men orders to have all in readiness; but when I 

 reached the little jetty, at two p.m., I found only half the 

 men there, the remainder being as busy as bees on shore, 

 running in and out of the Chinese shops, buying betel- 



