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or three men only, and to spend five days there as 

 Aban Jau's guest, and to persuade him to come 

 down to Claudetown to meet the Rajah. 



The evening was spent in discussing the pro- 

 spects of the expedition with Juman and other 

 chiefs, some of whom took a gloomy view. The 

 following morning the steam-launch was sent down- 

 river, and we took to the boats and paddled a short 

 stage to Bawang Takun, another large Kayan village, 

 where we stayed over-night to give the people time 

 to prepare their boats and the Resident the oppor- 

 tunity for some judicial inquiries. There was heavy 

 rain throughout the night, and in the morning the 

 river, which in this part of its course runs between 

 limestone cliffs, was rushing so rapidly that we could 

 only make progress by repeatedly crossing the river 

 to seek the slack- water side of each reach. Failing 

 to reach any village, we passed the night in rude 

 shelters on the bank. On the following day the 

 river was still in flood, but we reached Long Lawa, 

 a Kayan village, and decided to wait there until the 

 river should subside to a more normal condition. 

 Here a party of Kenyahs met us, sent by Tama 

 Bulan to conduct us to his house some two or three 

 days' journey up the Pata tributary. On the morn- 

 ing of the 1 6th the river had fallen ten feet, and 

 starting at daybreak we reached the mouth of the 

 Pata, and camped on a kerangan or pebble-bed beauti- 

 fully situated among the forest-clad slopes a little 

 way up the Pata. In the course of the day a boat- 

 ful of Kayans from the Apoh had joined us. On 

 the 17th we had an exciting day working up the 

 rapids and waterfalls of the Pata, and reached Long 

 Lutin, a very large Kayan village of many long 

 houses, most pleasantly situated and surrounded by 

 hills clothed with the rich green of the young padt 

 crop. Here we spent the night in the house of the 

 principal chief, Laki Lah, a quaint old bachelor, whom 



