CHAPTER X 

 OTHER EXPEDITIONS 



THE Penrisen trip, described in the last chapter, was 

 the first of a series of collecting expeditions made with 

 the object of filling blanks in the zoological and ethno- 

 graphical collections of the Museum. Mt. Matang, 

 which is only a few miles from Kuching, and on 

 which there are two bungalows, was often visited, as 

 also Santubong at the mouth of the Sarawak River. In 

 1902 I went up to the northern end of Sarawak to stay 

 with my friend Cox, who had now been transferred to 

 the Trusan district. The scenery in this part of Borneo 

 is distinctly weird. Opposite the island of Labuan is 

 a large bay, at the western horn of which is situated 

 the Sarawak Government station of Brooketon, in 

 Brunei territory ; the eastern horn is the territory of 

 the British North Borneo Company. Into the bay 

 discharge the three rivers going from west to east, 

 Limbang, Trusan, and Lawas, the latter only recently 

 acquired by the Sarawak Government. The bay is 

 very shallow, and the Trusan River is slowly pushing 

 out a spit of land into the sea ; the bay is dotted in 

 all directions with large fish-weirs, or "kelong," and 

 the channel leading to the mouth of the Trusan is 



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