REPORT ON A JOURNEY FROM TUARAN TO KIAU. 13 
the help of Kerosine oil, we soon had half a dozen fires going. 
49. The Dyaks reported having seen Tiong Tuan village 
from the “slippery rock.’ I find that we have arrived at the 
caves at last, as the river Kadamayan is only 100 yards dis- 
tant. 
50. I awoke at 2.45 a.m. and found the thermometer 
registered 59°. At half past five I walked to the river and 
saw above me a small cascade 70 feet high and to its left the 
entrance to two caves. A few swallows were flying out, but 
these Pangeran SAHBUDIN said were not the “cave swallow.” 
NANGGAI and RAjiB tried to climb up, but a log, which they 
would have had to cross was too fragile and we deferred the 
search until ropes of rattan could be made. 
51. I sent back GAWANG, BUNAHOW, Datoh BENAWA 
and two coolies to hurry up MAPADRI who is to bring the rice 
and we are to meet at Tamborongah, the next stage. 
52. We then commenced making ropes with the janggut 
rattan, a pretty species about the thickness of a drawing pen- 
cil. When the rope was finished, we found that, owing to a 
small precipice above the bank of the river, another rope five 
fathom long was necessary. Some of the men cut sticks and 
laid them on a frame, so as to form bed places for us all. As 
usual rain fell in the afternoon, but this time we were under 
cover. 
53. The caves were examined next morning by RAJIB, and 
proved, to be simply shallow holes inhabited by bats and 
swallows. 
54. At 10 a.m. started for Tamborongah. Our guide 
LUMBAG led us through the jungle by an imaginary path up 
and down hills, crossing the Kadamayan and sundry small 
streams. At 12.55 we emerged out of the jungle and had a 
good view of the surroundings from the crest of a hill 6,077 
feet high. GAWANG and his party were observed toiling up 
the hill below us, so we hurried on, and ten minutes after 
arrived at Tamborongah. This may have been, ages ago, the 
site of a mountain village, but at the present day there are only 
two small huts usually called su/ap without walls and 
thatched with leaves. The thermometer registered 55°. As 
the rain had just stopped, my followers were wet,and paralys- 
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