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armlets, and also rice for the journey. Should the sup- 

 ply of rice become exhausted they eat native herbs. 



At Long Pangian we were able to develop plates 

 effectively by hauling clear and comparatively cool water 

 from a spring fifteen or twenty minutes away. By al- 

 lowing six cans (five-gallon oil tins) of water to stand over 

 night, and developing from 4.30 next morning, we got 

 ver}' good results, though the water would show nearly 

 76° F. My kinematograph was out of order, and desiring 

 to use it on my journey higher up the river, I decided to 

 go again to Tandjong Selor in an endeav^our to have it 

 repaired. The delay was somewhat irritating, but as the 

 trip down-stream consumed only two days, I started off 

 in a small, swift boat kindly loaned to me by the post- 

 houder. Fortunately Mr. J. A. Uljee, a Dutch engineer 

 who was in town, possessed considerable mechanical tal- 

 ent: in a few days he succeeded in mending the appara- 

 tus temporarily. 



As I was preparing to return, another party arrived 

 from Apo Kayan. They were all Kenyahs, Oma Bakkah, 

 who came in seven prahus, and proved so interesting that 

 I postponed my journey one day. The government has 

 put up a kind of lodging-house for visiting Dayaks, and 

 the many fine implements and utensils which these men 

 had brought with them made the interior look like a 

 museum. Their beautiful carrying-baskets and other 

 articles were standing in a continuous row around the 

 walls. These Kenyahs did not seem to have been here 

 before and were agreeable people with whom to deal. I 

 have not, before nor since, seen such a tempting collec- 



