ACCOUNT OF A TRIP UP THE PAHA\G, AND OTHER RIVERS. 45 



Ridley with stores for several days so that he might form 

 an advance camp and thus be saved the journey back to the 

 main camp every day. A specimen of the handsome squirrel 

 {Sciuriis uisignis) was obtained at this camp. 



On the 30th of July, ]\Ir. Ridley's best plant collector who 

 had been complaining- of fever for some days was so bad that 

 he had to be sent back to the camp at Kuala Tenok. He was 

 so weak that he required the assistance of two men to enable 

 him to walk, Mr. Kelsall also went back to Kuala Tenok to 

 get some things that had been left locked up and to see this 

 man safely back. Sakai and wild beast tracks occur on both 

 sides of the river and these were often m.ade use of, being 

 enlarged for the baggage carriers. In some places trees had 

 to be cut down to form bridges over the river and the ravines 

 that had to be crossed in the jungle. During the whole time 

 we were in the Tahan jungles we did not meet a single Sakai 

 although we constantly met with evidence of their presence 

 in the shape of rough leantos of "/^;<?</£?/^j- " consisting of a 

 long pole supported at each end on a forked stick stuck in 

 the ground against which palm leaves are leant. Other evi- 

 dences were small platforms in the forl<:s of trees, 15 or 20 

 feet from the ground, dead fires and on one or two occasions 

 newly cut branches of trees. At one place Mr. RiDLEY found 

 on the banks of the river a group of seven small huts or booths 

 made of palm leaves tied together at the top in the shape of a 

 bee hive and with a thick bed of palm leaves in each of them 



The wild men are evidently very shy, as they never let us. 

 catch a glimpse of them although they evidently watched us 

 all along, and on our moving from one camp were quick to 

 clear off all old tins and other waste which had been thrown 

 away. 



On the 31st, Mr. Ridley continued cutting the path and 

 Mr. Kelsall followed him to make a rough compass sketch 

 of the route, overtaking him not far from the 6th camp, 

 while Mr. Davison superintended the coolies moving the 

 stores on to the 5th camp. This part of the path was very 

 bad. Mr. Ridley and his party during this day ascended a 

 hill of considerable altitude on the left bank of the river and 



