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VEGETATION ON TIANG LAJU 



to be identified, and only rarely did I preserve plants that had not 

 their flowers or their fruits. I noticed, however, the absence of 

 many species which I had always met with in the forest near the 

 coast. Thus I only saw two Dipterocarps and a single Quercus, 

 plants easily recognisable by their leaves. 



On the summit the thermometer, in the shade of the bushes, 

 marked yy° Fahr., and my aneroid 686 millim. From these data 

 I made the height of the mountain to be about 3,267 feet. I waited 

 in vain for the mist to clear, but was at length obliged to retrace my 

 steps to the lanko, which I did slowly, collecting plants by the way. 



Fig. 32. PROFILE OF SUPPOSED FEMALE MAYAS TJAPING. 



It was near sunset, and the cicadas, here of several species and 

 extraordinarily numerous, simply deafened us with their piercing 

 and discordant stridulations, it being at this hour that they com- 

 mence their love songs. 



We cooked our rice, Dyak fashion, in long internodes of bamboo, 

 and then turned in to get some sleep. It rained the whole night 

 through. In many things I took kindly to the ways and habits of 

 the Dyaks, but on a bed of bark I could not, as they do, find peace- 

 ful repose. Stiff and tortured on one side I turned over on the 

 other, and repeated this operation a dozen times before morning, 



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