8 REPORT ON A JOURNEY FROM TUARAN TO KIAU. 
young women entertained us to some sweet singing called 
Inggano. ‘The songs treated of love and courtship, and 
the allusions must have been amusing, for the men were con- 
stantly laughing, but I am told nothing improper was men- 
tioned. 
30. I wanted to purchase a tiger-cat’s skin, but the owner 
would not part with it for two fathoms of black cloth and, for 
the benefit of future traders and travellers, I declined to give 
more. The Hill Dusuns are keen traders and should one 
man give a high price for anything, the next man has pro- 
bably to give still higher or do without it. 
31. It was arranged that Labong Labong village should 
give two buffaloes this year as poll-tax, and pay the regular 
amount next year. Birds’-nest caves are reported to have 
been found in Kinabalau facing Kiau, at Kaporingan, and in 
the Labuk district at Kandasang village. It was arranged 
between Lampayan and Tampulan that a buffalo should be 
sacrified to-morrow in honour of the treaty of friendship. 
32. Next morning at 5.45 a.m. the thermometer registered 
71°, aneroid 1,659 feet above sea level. When BUNAHOW and 
Datoh KABONG, Chiefs of Kiau, arrived, we all adjourned to 
the village green, and found a young buffalo had been tied 
to a tree at the foot of a large boulder. ‘The police and gun- 
bearers fell into position and a volley was fired, the British 
North Borneo flag hoisted, and the local Tuaran flag (white 
ground, a red triangle with ‘‘Tuaran’”’ in red below) presented 
to TAMPULAN. While Clerk USMAN was cutting the buffalo’s 
throat, a rectangular stone was planted upright in the turf 
and Coast and Hill Dusuns laid their hands on tthersrome 
swearing eternal friendship. GAWANG states he has visited 
sixty-four villages, and they all request a similar ceremony. 
33. In the evening, we had some further talk about birds 
nests. Datoh KABONG reports caves at Mumus hill, but the 
natives of Bilawng stupidly eat the nests and do not allow 
outsiders to interfere. 
34. Descended Labong Labong hill to the junction of two 
streams, S. Kimitakeh and Tahobang. Here we debated which 
way we should go, either by the Kadamayan river or over the 
hills to Kiau. Finally the hill route was chosen. Datoh 
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