2 A TRIP TO MT, PENRISSEN, SARAWAK. 
саад offered to us by the gentlemen then in charge of ће 
ent coffee-estate at that place. Profiting by our expe- 
ane we exchanged next day one of our heavy boats with its 
Malay crew for two lighter boats with crews of Land- Dyaks ; 
these men are experts in the art of poling up against a strong 
and shallow stream > the women are not far behind the men. 
It was amusing to | our icruits coaching our Malay 
crews, the latter ion ваш М ше Seed the superiority 
of their advisers as polers were too prou take advice in any 
form from those they considered in every d respect beneath 
ig notice. With such valuable additions to our forces we 
oceeded up stream at a fair pace; the scenery was lovely, 
seed Nos walls of limestone carved by the weather into every 
imaginable shape, rose high on either side. Their summits were 
clothed with a dense growth of trees and creepers, which in 
the river itself here rippling over shallows or dashing through 
rocky gateways, there runuing calm and still under au S ue. 
ing cliff, ever added fresh beauty and interest to the sc 
night we tied up opposite the village of Burgor, ^n pt in 
the boats; an early start was made next morning and by mid- 
day, we ‘arrived at Pankalan Ampat, thus completing the 
first eps of our jou rney. p here we dispatched messengers 
were aie next day to i dn the heavy ас to 
y riwe 
to the dangers of a Land Dyak road with iis picturesque 
though fragile bamboo bridges slung over nasty-looking places 
where a fall meant a broken bone or tw 
On arrival at Sennah we were met with a cordial welcome 
