2 REPORT ON A JOURNEY FROM TUARAN TO KIAU. 
1885, and has ever since been well attended by Hill Dusuns 
in the vicinity of the Tampasuk River, and Bajaus from 
Tuaran, Sulaman and Mengkabong. 
5. nroute | noticed quantities of the wild pine-apple 
srowing on old cleared hills. On Bukit Tegas there are 
several specimens of the kapas (cotton plant). The plant here 
appears as a low straggling tree having pointed berries three 
inches long. One bush averages a yield of 22lb of cotton. 
6. Madang village is composed of two houses; one, the 
“ Government Hotel,’ intended for the accommodation of the 
hill natives; and the other AHMAT’S house. This AHMAT is 
a Bisaya from Padas, whose acquaintance I made some four 
years ago in Papar. He followed the late Hdji JAMALUDIN 
to Tuaran, and on the latter's death, bought his house and - 
took a Dusun wife. Being shghtly useful, he is now recog- 
nised as the local headman in the district ; which 1s thinly 
populated and in consequence easily governed. The tem- 
perature at Madang at 6 a.m. was 65°, height above sea level 
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7- On my return to the Station, I found a flat-bottomed 
gobong or dug-out awaiting me, which I had previously 
ordered. Length 28 feet, breadth 34 feet. Dhisaeamremees 
to be used when the river is in flood or for shooting rapids. 
8. I started for the interior on the 28th February, bringing 
up my baggage in the dug-out, and stopped at Telibong, 
sleeping in IBU’s house. [BU is a Bajau, married to a Dusun 
woman, and has settled down in her village. This village is 
situated on the left bank of the River Tuaran, just above the 
junction of the Telibong branch. 
g. Next morning found me at Buntai Fair, on the right 
bank of the Tuaran River and forty minutes’ walk from Teli- 
bong village. In ordinary weather, the ford across the river 
is only thigh deep. The fair is always well attended, and in 
spite of the recent floods, over five hundred natives had 
assembled who politely awaited my arrival to commence bar- 
tering their jungle produce, tobacco and cereals, for fish and 
dry goods, brought by the Coast tribes. LAMPAYAN, head- 
man of Kabong village near Kinabalu, delivered a message of 
greeting from Datoh KABONG of Kiau and was glad to hear 
