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REPORT ON A JOURNEY FROM TUARAN TO KIAU. 9) 
Bungol. Here we had a bath, and cooked our rice. I had 
seen the men eating a semi-transparent fruit called hands, 
and followed suit. It had a pleasant acid taste at first, but 
afterwards my tongue and palate felt as if affected by a 
strong astringent. This unpleasant sensation lasted until 
night. 
1g. After finishing the inevitable rice and tinned mutton, 
I went specimen hunting and succeeded in picking up conglo- 
merate mixed with crystals, hornblende and quartz. Amongst 
the rapids, some Dusun had placed a fish trap made of bam- 
boo, but it was empty. 
20. One steep but small hill brought us to the banks of 
the Mantaranau river, we had to cross it and its tributaries 
several times. At 2.30 we arrived at Bungol. This village 
is built on the sides of a hollow which looks pretty, the grass 
having been grazed short. We took up our quarters in 
BANSAYAN’S house, it being large and the headman—Datoh 
BENAWA—being absent. But BANSAYAN said ‘you cannot 
enter here,’ of which we took no notice until GAWANG had 
arranged matters at Datoh BENAWa’S house where we shifted, 
the culprit following and asking for pardon. At the Datoh’s 
Imet twomen SI DAIN and SI GIBAN andtwo women KAMBING 
and KAUDEH who had just arrived from the Sindatun district 
bringing tobacco for barter. ‘Their village is one day’s jour- 
pey from Bungol and the headman pays one buffalo as poll- 
tax this year. 
21. I append a sketch of the whereabouts of Sindatun as 
described by S1 DAIN. The women wore stained rattan and 
brass chainwork, a foot broad around their substantial waists 
and brasswire on their lower arm which they only take off 
on becoming matrons. Their dress was a short indigo dyed 
petticoat reaching to the knee and a similar cloth 14” by 4” 
across to the bosom sustained by a few coils of stained rattan. 
The men, as everywhere in the interior, wore only a dirty loin 
cloth. DaAIN stated that all the villages on both sides of the 
Sinalang river are disposed to join with Sindatun in tender- 
ing submission to Government, and I intended to have visited 
this district, but was unable to carry out the whole of my pro- — 
gramme. 
