132 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 
On the top of one tree was a rather pretty Vanda with red 
flowers spotted with a darker shade of the same colour; and 
on another was a wild raspberry in full fruit. A tree top is 
certainly one of the last places on which one would have look- 
ed for raspberries. 
On the 17th sixteen Sakais came up to carry my things 
down to Tapa, and! arranged with them to get attaps and 
finish felling the jungle on the new site on the 18th, on the 
morning of which day I went down with them, and then up 
again to the camp and from there to the rock on the top of the 
spur and afterwards to the gorge to the North of the camp to 
collect orchids and ferns to take down for the Resident. 
Then packed them up in baskets and also packed up the 
bird-skins and put the day’s collection of botanical specimens 
in paper, cleaned guns, and made other preparations for leav- 
ing on the morrow. 
Up to that time 77 birds and 320 species of plants had 
been collected, and the object of going down to Tapa was to 
properly dry and pack away this large collection, and free the 
pressing paper, so as to be able to use it again. 
I had been away from Tapa about a month, and I must say 
it had been anything but a pleasant time; for the hut was of 
the leakiest, draughtiest and most uncomfortable description 
for the bleak climate at that altitude, it being made of rattan 
and small palm leaves—the only material available within a 
distance of three or four miles. The temperature ranged from 
56° to 68° in the house, and the wind, rain and mist drifted 
right through it. 
Most of my party were out of sorts, and I rather hesitated 
as to leaving, but transport is so difficult to get that I decided to 
risk it. JELLAH had ague, MAHRASIT nettle-rash and swollen 
legs and feet, HARISON bad legs, and the “ boy”’ a very much in- 
flamed and swollen eye. I gave a supply of medicine to JEL- 
LAH, and the boy and HARISON were doctored at Tapa. 
While at the upper camp IJ had an attack of what is known as 
hill diarrhoea, a disease often. met with at the Himalayan 
hill stations of Simla and Nynee Tal, but I do not think that it 
has been recorded in the Malay Peninsula before. 
