CHAPTER XIII. 



KINA BALU, Via 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 Tanipassuk " The 

 Fatted Calf" Start for Kina Balu Hare 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 (irccn Alxniginals from 

 the interior Pretty weeds Lemoung'* death Native ornaments 

 Native cloth Pee 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 mi July 31st I was ready to 

 start. I had given my Chinese " hoy," Khnjeek, and 

 the men orders to have all in readiness; but when 1 

 reached the little jetty, at two r.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- 



