CHAPTER XI 



DEPARTURE FOR BANDJERMASIN A PLEASANT STEAMSHIP 



LINE — TWO HEAD-HUNTERS — AN EXPEDITION TO LAKE 



SEMBULO SAMPIT — THE ORANG - UTAN STORMY 



WEATHER — A DISAGREEABLE RECEPTION 



In Tandjong Selor I was exceedingly busy for three 

 days getting boxes and packing the collections, and early 

 in June I departed for Bandjermasin, on S. S. De Weert. 

 It has been my fortune to travel much on the steamships 

 of the Royal Packet Boat Company, which controls the 

 whole Malay Archipelago from Singapore to New Guinea 

 and the Moluccas. It is always a pleasure to board one 

 of these steamers, as the officers are invariably courteous, 

 and the food is as excellent on the smaller steamers as on 

 the large ones. The same kind of genuine, good claret, 

 at a reasonable price, is also found on all of them, and it 

 may readily be understood how much I enjoyed a glass of 

 cool Margaux-Medoc with dinner, after over five months 

 in the utan. The sailors on these steamers are Javanese. 

 Those from Madura, rather small men, made an especially 

 good impression. A captain told me they never give any 

 trouble except when on leave ashore in Sourabaia, where 

 they occasionally remain overtime, but after a few days 

 they come to the office and want to be taken on again. 

 They are punished by having their wages deducted for 

 the days they are absent, but the loss of coin does not 

 trouble them much. If they have cigarettes and their 

 meals they are happy, and they never accumulate money. 



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