A TRIP TO MT. PENRISSEN, SARAWAK. 5 
mountain, and as these up to a height of 2,000 feet are clothed 
with bamboo jungle, we found the going much more easy. 
the afternoon, at an altitule of 2,500 feet, a 
hanging boulder of sandstone conglomerate, known to the 
Sennahs as Batu Tinong, and under this we pitched our 
our camp for the night. А dashing mountain stream w 
cascade of really cold water after our exhausting day was one 
not readily to be forgotten. Leeches had proved persistent and 
troublesome throughout the day, but in my opinion the annoy- 
ance caused by them has always been somewhat exaggerated. 
vest morning we continued our climb until we had reached 
rear the sides of the mountain sloped steeply downwards and 
upwards; however, as we were informed that there was no 
water to be had at any greater height, and further that all the 
Europeans who had previously visited the mountain had encamp- 
ed here, we had perforce to acquiesce in our guides’ decision. 
Our carriers made a clearing and proceeded to build us a hut; 
this took two or three hours to complete, as we insisted it should 
be commodious, solid and watertight; the poles and beams 
were of course felled in the jun 
two feet off the ground, was made with laths and saplings, 
whilst intertwisted palm-leaves served for roof and walls. Every 
felled tree produced a small harvest of insects ; a few interesti ig 
butterflies invaded the clearing, amongst them Cyrestis seminigra, 
previously only recorded from Kina Balu, whilst in the un- 
dergrowth were founl snails, scorpions and centipedes, all 
delightfully unfamiliar to the low-co ігу naturalist. In secur- 
ing these specimens and in rigging up shelves and sleeping-bunks 
in our hut, making all comfortable and snug, we spent the rest 
of the day. 
On the following day (May 13th) Mr. Cox early started 
out to explore the mountain at a higher elevation, and at mid- 
day returned with the report that after a stiff climb of 400 feet 
he had reached a maguificent plateau of considerable extent, 
