IS NEON IR 
ON A JOURNEY FROM 
TUARAN TO. KIAU 
AND ASCENT OF 
KINABALU MOUNTAIN. 
\ N my return from a tour of inspection through the Ilanun 
districts, Pangeran SAHBUDIN, the Chief of Tuaran- 
Sulaman district, reported to me that the headmen of 
the several countries around Kinabalu Mountain had been 
visited by GAWANG, our Dusun Sub-Chief, and had signified 
their submission to this Government; but had made it a con- 
dition of their taking the oath of allegiance that I should 
personally visit them and witness the usual ceremonies conse- 
quent on the above step. - 
2aeeASe i chad heard from Mr WHITEHEAD that his’ re= 
searches on North Bornean Ornithology would bring him to 
the vicinity of Kinabalu, I determined to start with him to the 
interior, but circumstances prevented him keeping his appoint- 
ment with me at Gaya Island, and later on when he did arrive, 
I was away in Putatan, so we did not go together. I left for 
Tuaran on the 16th of February, arriving at the Government 
Station the next day. 
3. Mr. Resident DAVIES had arranged for one of his local 
Chiefs to meet me at Tampasuk ; but although I waited two 
weeks for him, the expected Chief did not turn up. We were 
to have prospected together for an edible bird’s-nest cave, 
reported to be near Kinabalu. 
4. In the meantime, I took a walk to Madang village on 
the Sungei Damit, a tributary of the Tuaran River. Here is 
the site of a fair, which was revived by the Government in 
