CHAPTER XIII. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



As a narrative of one of my visits up the southern 

 branch of the Sarawak river will contain some notices, 

 not in the preceding pages, I extract the following from 

 my journal of 1845. 



Dec. 1st. Left Sarawak at 2 P.M., intending to 

 ascend the left-hand river as far as the village of the 



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Sennah Dyaks, the most distant of the tribes of 

 Sarawak, excepting those of Si Panjang and Goon, on 

 the Sangow waters, to the S.W. of the Sennah village 

 My crew, which consists often stout young men, pulled 

 well; so that, having passed the junction at Leduh 

 Tanah at 4 P.M., we stopped at Karangan Landi, a 

 little above the river Staat, a small stream, which comes 

 from the westward, and on which, in a limestone hill, is 

 a small but rather pretty cave, formerly said to have been 

 a retreat of the Dyaks from persecution. The Karangan 

 Landi is a large bed of gravel, amongst which are many 

 pretty agates, and being above the ordinary height of 

 the river, is much used as a resting-place by the Malays, 



