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and we soon had a tolerably good audience around us. 

 One by one our followers came in, and we soon availed 

 ourselves of the comfort of a rub over with a towel and 

 dry clothes, after which we arranged the various plants 

 collected during the day, and continued our journals. 

 "Bongsur" brought in a fine brown owl and a pretty 

 scarlet bird with black wing-tips, neither of which we had 



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seen before. For dinner we had boiled fowl and rice, 

 followed by coffee and a cigarette of native tobacco 

 wrapped in maize-husk. We lay on our mats and rugs at 

 one end of the large public room, all our men being 

 cooking and jabbering away to their hearts' content, the 

 Babel of sounds, partly Malay and partly Dusun, being 

 deafening. Tobacco was brought in for sale soon after 

 our arrival, and one man brought a fowl, but as he asked 

 double its value we refused to buy it. 



The greatest interest was shown in all we did, more 



