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character of their habitats, within a dense jungle, it is 

 generally difficult to see them. The vast majority of 

 orchids are small and inconspicuous, and in hunting for 

 magnificent ones the best plan is to take natives along 

 who will climb or cut down the trees on which they 

 grow. 



On the third day the river had become narrow and 

 shallower, and early in the afternoon we arrived at Telok 

 Djulo, a kampong of Ot-Danums interspersed with 

 Malays. It is composed of many houses, forming one 

 side of an irregular street, all surrounded with a low fence 

 for the purpose of keeping pigs out. The storehouses 

 recalled those of the Bulungan, with their wide wooden 

 rings around the tops of the supporting pillars, to pre- 

 vent mice from ascending. Outside of the fence near the 

 jungle two water-buffaloes were always to be seen in the 

 forenoon lying in a mud-pool; these we were warned 

 against as being dangerous. These Dayaks, who are 

 shy but very friendly, are said to have immigrated here 

 over thirty years ago. They are mostly of medium size, 

 the women stocky, with thick ankles, though otherwise 

 their figures are quite good. The Ot-Danum men, like 

 the Murungs, Siangs, and Katingans, place conspicu- 

 ously on the calf of the leg a large tatu mark representing 

 the full moon. When preparing to be photographed, 

 men, women, and children decorate their chests with 

 crudely made gold plates shaped nearly like a half moon 

 and hanging one above another, generally five in number. 

 One of the blians was a Malay. 



Here we had to stay two weeks, while the remainder 



