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AHOW’S village where we picked up that Chief, who, however, 
was unacquainted with the position of the caves, but LUMBAG, 
his aged follower, agreed to come after us on the next day 
and point them out. Descended again to the Kadamayan 
stream and followed up its bed, till we halted at a cave at the 
side of the river and had tiffin. 
43. The bed of the stream is full of hornblende, granite, 
quartz and limestone boulders, and we picked up numerous 
specimens containing copper or copper pyrites, or perhaps 
only iron pyrites. Only a little further on, we came to Mitun- 
bok gorge, with an overhanging cliff on the left bank, which 
we made our halting place for the night, greatly to my dis- 
gust, for we were only afew miles distant from Kiau, but 
BUNAHOW said he had agreed to wait here for LUMBAG, the 
guide, and as there were two roads to the caves he might miss 
him were we togoon. At 4p.m.the thermometer registered 
72, and at 6a. m.I ascertained the height to be 2,651 feet, 
or only 16 feet above the village of middle Kiau. 
44. Our beds were certainly not the most comfortable, 
as we had to lay the mats on gravel after removing the boul- 
ders, but a few wild plaintain leaves helped to alleviate the 
hardness. Our conversation was limited owing to the noise 
of the rapids only a few feet distant. The river rose slightly 
the next day and I noticed that the flood mark was long 
away above our heads, but a hill witha tolerable slope a 
hundred yards distant would have afforded us a shelter 
against freshets. Although LUMBAG promised to meet us in 
the morning, he did not arrive until 1 p.m. excusing his 
lateness by saying he was drunk. When at Kiau, the head- 
man Datoh KABONG had promised to forward rice which the 
carriers were to bring us next day, but mistrusting his pro- 
mises I sent two parties back to hurry him up. 
45. The Dyaks amused themselves next morning cutting 
through dagong stems, a soft wood, and we all went in 
for cockshies at a stone attached to an overhanging creeper 
and swung back and forward. At 8.15 a.m. we started 
for the caves. Just before we left, LUMBAG informed us 
that the road to the caves led to Kinabalu. I had previously 
been told at Kiau that to ascend Kinabalu necessitated re- 
