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native boat. Soon after, we met Mr. Haynes. As Mr. Little in 

 his letter of instructions to Mr. Haynes bad recommended that 

 we should take the Tuaran route to Kina Balu, he very kindly 

 promised to accompany me the next day as far as Panjut, a vil- 

 lage on the mainland where our luggage carriers were awaiting 

 us. I slept on board the ' Enterprise.' 



Sunday, March 12th. We left the ' Enterprise ' at sunrise 

 and noticed crowds of the long-spined Sea- Urchin Diadema 

 setosum in the shallow water below the pier, mostly sticking on 

 to pieces of rotten timber lying at the bottom. From a fisher- 

 man we obtained a large number of the huge worm Sipunculus 

 robustus which he was digging from the sandy shore for bait. 

 At 8.30 a.m. we left Gaya in two rowing boats manned by Bajous, 

 and had a most pleasant journey. When nearing Gantian, we 

 passed through shallow water with beautiful corals and numbers 

 of the striking red and black starfish Oreaster nodosus. At 

 Gantian, usually known as Kabaggu by the natives, we met Mr. 

 C. H. Keasberry, Sub-Treasurer and Postmaster. Then proceed- 

 ing, we entered the Menkabong river at 1 p.m.. passed the vil- 

 lage of Mumpelum at 2 p.m., and soon after reached Berunggis 

 where we landed. Here, without waiting for the second boat 

 in De Fontaine's charge, which had dropped somewhat behind, 

 Mr. Haynes and myself, with a few of the men, walked on to 

 Panjut, about 2^ miles distant, passing through swampy fields 

 with exceedingly poor padi — I hear by the way that this year's 

 padi crop has been a failure throughout Xorth Borneo — and 

 reached Panjut at 3.15 p.m. .We settled down in a spacious 

 Dusun house, with a splendid verandah, ornamented with about 

 twenty head-trophies, and caused the drums to be beaten, which 

 signal was to call the men to fetch our luggage from Berung- 

 gis. After about 1-J- hours' waiting, six Dusuns appeared with 

 sledges drawn by water-buffaloes and started off towards our 

 boats. At 6 p. m., as there were no signs of the luggage, I 

 went back to Berunggis to hurry the men on and found that the 

 second and larger boat had been obliged to stop lower down 

 the river, as the tide had gone out, and that only a part of the 

 luggage could be removed that evening. We returned towards 

 Panjut, and feeling somewhat fatigued I mounted a water-buf- 

 falo, but as it floundered into a hole, I was promptly thrown off. 



