4 REPORT ON A JOURNEY FROM TUARAN TO KIAU. 
diem and rations while marching, and to cents per diem 
when resting, the Dyaks getting 25 cents and 10 cents, with 
rations as they represented the gun-bearers. 
15. Our start was delayed by some bed-loving cooled who 
were punished by getting the heaviest loads to carry. We 
had to walk up a steep incline before arriving at the flat ridge 
representing the top of Nilau hill, 2,226 feet above sea level. 
Below, on the left of the path, the hills rising out of the mist 
resembled islands in a vast sea. [Further on, we passed a 
large pond, at the foot of Tingkahang hill, forty yards in 
diameter and from three to four feet deep. This, the natives 
say, is never dry in the longest droughts, owing to numerous 
springs. ‘The pond resembles an ole omen camp, filled up 
with water. Ingkahang hill is 1,929 feet high. Passed the 
junction of an old path used by head-hunters before the 
cession. Manjok Sirong hill, 2,411 feet. 
16. The hill leading up to Kalawat village is not so steep 
as its predecessors, and we arrived at 9.30 a.m. finding most 
of the men absent. The son of the Bajau headman, how- 
ever, was there to welcome us, and presented me with the 
usual stirrup-cup before leaving—a small bamboo of cocoa-nut 
toddy mixed with the bitter and intoxicating bark of the 
vasak tree. To procure this bark, these natives have to buy 
it at Buntai Fair, from traders who obtain it et Papar. 
17. We toiled up Kalawat hill, at the back of the village, 
and found it a toilsome task. Were it not for the holes made 
in the paths by buffaloes’ feet on some of these hills, the coolies 
would be overbalanced by their loads and to add to the task, 
the jungle has been cleared off, leaving ferns or grass only 
two or ine feet high and no protection against the sune: 
was told Kalawat hill was the large hill heewcon this and 
Kanes iound! thisscormnect: Passed a tuba garden. . This 
is an intoxicating weed which is mashed up in water, 
changing the latter to a milky coloured fluid, and then poured 
into a stream. All the fish within a half mile are quickly 
stupefied and easily caught. Despairing lovers sometimes 
use this weed to end their sorrows. 
18. From Kalawat hill we descended at a rattling pace to 
Tinuman stream, a tributary of the Mantaranau river at 
