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neath the head. The Dayaks caught this and other birds 

 aHve in snares, which they are expert in constructing. I 

 kept one alive for many days, and it soon became tame. 

 It was a handsome, brave bird, and I was sorry one day 

 to find it dead from want of proper nourishment, the 

 Dayaks having been unable to find suflficient rain-worms 

 for it. 



The beautiful small deer, kidyang, was secured several 

 times. Its meat is the best of all game in Borneo, al- 

 though the Kayans look upon it with disfavour. When 

 making new fields for rice-planting, if such an animal 

 should appear, the ground is immediately abandoned. 



Scarcely fifty metres below the top of the hill was 

 our water supply, consisting of a scanty amount of 

 running water, which stopped now and then to form 

 tiny pools, and to my astonishment the Dayaks one day 

 brought from these some very small fish which I preserved 

 in alcohol. Naturally the water swells much in time of 

 rain, but still it seems odd that such small fish could reach 

 so high a point. 



Many insects were about at night. Longicornes 

 scratched underneath my bed, and moths hovered about 

 my American hurricane lamp hanging outside the tent- 

 door. Leeches also entered the tent and seemed to have 

 a predilection for the tin cans in which my provisions and 

 other things were stored. In the dim lamplight I could 

 sometimes see the uncanny shadows of their bodies on 

 the canvas, raised and stretched to an incredible height, 

 moving their upper parts quickly to all sides before pro- 

 ceeding on their "forward march." To some people, my- 



