150 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG: 
first thing in the morning. Their note is so loud and distince- 
tive and they are so noisy that they could not be mistaken for 
any other bird, or overlooked. 
From the ath to the roth we continued collecting, but got 
nothing of special interest. I had some trees felled so as to 
get a view of two fine dudok palms, and then took a photograph 
of them and afterwards had one cut down to get specimens as 
it happened to be in flower. 
On the 7th and 8th I saw the fresh marks of a bear on the 
trunks of two trees, one above the camp and one below. 
Mhese vane the only animal marks, excepting those of tigers, 
which I saw on Batu Puteh. 
At about ro A. M. on the roth some Sakais and Malays 
began to arrive, and so we all set to work packing up the 
collections and other things, and at 7.30 on the 11th we start- 
ed for Tapa. On the way I stopped at the camp on the banks 
of the Woh at the foot of the hill and took a photograph look- 
ing down the stream, with some Sakais crossing the tree trunk 
which forms a natural bridge over the river at this point. I 
reached Kuala Woh at about 1 P.M., but the men with the 
baggage did not begin to arrive till about 4 P. M., and it was 
not till nearly 5 that I set off down the river in the smaller of 
the two boats, a dug-out, which had been sent to meet us, with 
MAHRASIT, my Malay boy and a Sakai to pole. I was just 
preparing to have something to eat when the boat shot down 
a small rapid, then across a pool so deep that the poles could 
not touch the bottom and alter her course and the next instant 
she ran onto a rock and turned right over and we and all the 
baggage went floating down the stream. I made for the 
photographic apparatus and shouted to one of the men to catch 
the gun cases as being the most valuable things. After a-delay 
of about half-an-hour, occupied in collecting the various float- 
ing things, catching, turning over and bailing out the canoe we 
made afresh start, and, with the exception of grounding several 
times, reached Tapa without further mishap at about 7 P. M. 
The river the whole way is a succession of small rapids with 
here and there deep pools. I heard that the place where our 
canoe capsized has been the scene of many asimilar misfortune. 
The next day, the 12th, the rest of my party and the remain- 
