CHAPTER XII. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Extract from Journal, containing description of the 

 cave Lubong Angin, or the Wind-hole, and of a visit 

 to the country of the Gumbang Dyaks. 



Nov. 21st. 1845. Left Sarawak with the flood- 

 tide, in my fast boat, which is a canoe, thirty-six feet 

 in length, and with five feet beam, to visit the cave of 

 Lubong Angin, of which I have heard strange stories. 

 It is situated on the western branch of the river, about 

 forty-five to fifty miles above the Malayan town. Euro- 

 peans have not, hitherto, been so far up the river. In 

 the evening, arrived at Seniawan, the Chinese village, 

 situated at the foot of Mount Serambo, but did not 

 land. Dined and slept in the boat, being much 

 troubled with musquitoes, and in some dread of alli- 

 gators, from the body of one of which animals, I saw 

 the bones of a man taken a few days since. He had 

 been drawn out of his boat by the voracious beast. 



Nov. <2Q,nd. Left Seniawan at 8 A.M., and pulled 

 against a strong current to Tundong, the next Chinese 

 settlement. This village is occupied entirely by Chinese 



