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showed us the skin of a young rhinoceros which he had 

 shot in the mud pool near the Sagaliad river, ahout twenty- 

 miles from Sandakan. The lower horn was three inches 

 in length, the upper one only just growing. Mr. Prety- 

 man had also a small but very interesting collection of 

 large coleoptera caught in the immediate neighbourhood. 



August 15th. We finished rigging up our boat this 

 morning, and stowed all our plants and stores on board 

 before breakfast. Four of my men, including " Suong," 

 who had been very useful to me, agreed to stay at this 

 place as policemen under Mr. Pretyman. To oblige him 

 I allowed them to do this. About 1 p.m. we started down 

 the river, a much easier thing than pulling the other way. 

 We reached the mouth in about an hour, but could not 

 get over the bar, as there was not a foot of water on the 

 bar ; indeed we saw two native fishermen cany their little 

 canoes over. We had to wait until 10 o'clock at night, 

 when we got over and out to sea with a favourable breeze, 

 but we did not reach Labuan until August 30th, since 

 we had contrary winds, and altogether a very rough 

 passage. 



Thus ended our journey for the second time to " Kina 

 Balu," which occupied in all thirty-one days from Labuan, 

 of which thirteen were occupied in the sea voyage from 

 Labuan to the Tampassuk and back ; from Tampassuk to 

 Kiau and back thirteen ; and from Kiau to the mountain 

 and back five days. Our last journey, viz., the Tawaran 

 from Gaya and Menkabong, occupied in all twenty-three 

 days, but as we happened to start just at the commence- 

 ment of the dry season, we avoided the dangers and diffi- 

 culties of fording rapid streams. In the dry season the 

 Tampassuk route could be accomplished in five days, and 

 the ground is much more level than that along the 

 Tawaran route, which is both hilly and fatiguing, the 



