22 REPORT ON A JOURNEY FROM TUARAN TO KIAU. 
when a singer is standing. 
gt. All the houses here have sloping bamboos up to the 
front verandah, instead of steps or a notched log; and in 
consequence, the men near the door are disturbed by porkers 
during the night. 
92. Started 7.35 a.m. on the 20th March and retmanred 
to Labong Labong at 10.20 a.m. and had our noon-day 
meal at TAMPULAN’S house. I bought some honey in the 
comb, a rather common delicacy amongst the Hill Dusuns, 
for each house has a bees’-nest attached to the side of the 
window close to the sleeping dais. | 
93- KARAING, TAMPULAN’S wife, was as cheerful as ever, 
and asked me to bring up sundry brass jewelry next time 
I came up. | 
94. Left for Kahong and crossed the Kadamayan twice. 
At Kahong ford the water was waist deep and every moment 
rising. We put up at LAMPAYAN’S house, the coolies as 
usual finding their own quarters. ‘The next morning TAMPU- 
LAN arrived and stated that he was coming with me. Direct- 
ly afterwards I went to bathe and noticed TAMPULAN being 
belaboured by a woman. I| thought he had been “ Jarking,”’ 
but the enraged female turned out to be his wife who insisted 
on his following her back and he had to go. 
g5. Started down the Kadamayan or Tampasuk (the 
river ST. JOHN calls Kalopis is the above) at 11 a. m., and 
took the path following the river, crossed several small 
streams and twice the Kadamayan.. At the last ford opposite 
Dilongan Tipud hill, the river was breast deep and forty 
yards wide and being in flood we thought some one would 
come to grief, so tried to stretch a rattan across, but the first 
man who attempted the passage broke the rattan and just 
escaped being dashed among the rapids below. The Hill 
Dusuns then crossed by lightly hopping with the current 
from one foot to the other. We all followed suit and I can 
state that I shall never trouble myself about deep rivers in 
flood again, for provided the water is not above one’s head, 
or the rocks too close, nothing can be easier than to cross in 
this manner. 
g6. Rain commenced as we were crossing and continued 
