A Trip to Mt. Penrissen, Sarawak. 
; At ТИ? on the ше of tis of this a year of grace, 
Mr. E. Cox, of the Sarawak Government service, and 
myself left A for the upper waters of the Sarawak river on 
a long talked-of collecting expedition. Our лабе. destination 
was Penrissen, a mountain of 4,800 feet high, five miles from 
the “ulu” of the left hand branch of the “Sarawak river, and 
about fifty miles as the crow flies from the sea-coast. The 
mountain had pipin been scaled, in part at least, by Signor 
Beccari, Mr . Everett, Dr. G. D. Haviland and Mr. 
Hen lerson, bs had nev er, from a zoological peram of view, been 
thoroughly c ollected over, so dr our hopes of obtaining inte- 
resting and valuable résults ran 
ur Staff consisted of five yet. m Malay and 
Chinese boys, and a Chinese cook; to convey these, ourselves 
went well and вол оны The night was рер in part at the 
little village of Selobang, but to catch the tide and to avoid the 
din of a neighbouring Chinese “ wayang,” we re-embarked at 12 
p-m. and proceeded quietly on our way p at 6.30 in the = n- 
ing the first ** karungan" or zel bed was encountered; here 
we stopped for breakfast and à delightful bathe i in the now some- 
what rapid river. At 9 we were on again, and soon began to 
experience some difficulty in progression. The river abounded 
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with shallows and small rapids; ; up and over these our heavy and - 
heavy ily- laden boats, which to use a Malay expression “ ate much 
water," were poled = hauled only with the greatest difficulty 
and exertion. At the very bad places a general halt had always 
to be called, whilst as respective crews joined forces and а | 
with ropes опе boat up at a time. Late in the afternoon we 
finally won to Segu, and right glad were we to partake of the - 
