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non-existent in these high growing jungles, for during the 
whole trip from Mitimbok gorge to the top and back, our 
party only saw two birds, a species of starling and a swallow. 
60. I have forgotten to describe the splendid pitcher plants 
and pretty blue and white flowers which we passed, and, what 
pleased my eye better I must confess, quantities of large 
gutta-percha trees, india-rubber vines and rattans. The latter 
were rather too plentiful, especially the thorny rattan (Malay 
vting) and our hands bore its traces for more than a week 
afterwards. I imagine the thorns are poisonous. 
61. We had no cliff climbing to do to-day, but had to be 
careful in picking our steps, for the moss covered roots offered 
a treacherous foothold at best and when walking quickly a 
leg would disappear up to the thigh in some hole. Coming 
down an incline I received a terrible bump from a low branch 
stretching across the path, but the cold air soon took away a 
severe headache which followed. 
62a lhe moss up here is of diferent shades of crimson, 
and retains a quantity of ice cold moisture. Nine thousand feet 
or thereabouts appears to be the highest limit reached by the 
rattan either the marketable or thorny species. 
63. Dilana Hill, or it may be spelt according to the Dusun 
rules of syntax, ‘‘ Da Lana’’ (that is Lana with the article da) 
is a much more important hillthan Kinabalu, for on its eastern 
side are the sources of the Sugut and Labuk rivers. The 
path led us over the top and I ascertained the height to be 
g,700 feet, and taking the length of the former river at 130 
miles, this gives an average fall of 1 in 70, which will equally 
apply to the Labuk river. 
64. The Sugut river allows even heavily laden dug-outs to 
be poled up as far as Langsat, 105 miles by water from its 
mouth, I therefore hope on a future journey to the eas¢ side 
of Kinabalu to be able to give an impetus to the already large 
export trade in jungle produce which leaves that river and in 
a lesser amount, the Labuk. 
65. We then descended into a hollow, but soon had to 
climb up the true “trunk” of Kinabalu as the natives say. 
Almost on a level with Dilana top, I came toa bleak spot, 
covered with coarse heather and where numerous boulders 
