62 AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT KINA BALU. 



on dry clothes, wrapped myself in blankets and felt warm and 

 comfortable, although getting only little sleep. But as the river 

 by this time had gone down considerably, De Fontaine and some of 

 the men managed to cross and reached Bungol in safety. Only a 

 few Dusuns stayed with me, making as usual next to no effort to 

 prepare a sleeping place for themselves, but remaining squatted 

 on the wet ground, some perhaps with a few sticks between it 

 and themselves, but in no case with protection above. My 

 camp-bed broke down partly during the night. 



Thursday, March 30th. I got up at 6 a.m. and found that 

 there had actually been no rain during the night. Some of the 

 men had already returned from Bungol to help us across the 

 Menternan, so we left at 6.30 a.m., and as I still wore my dry 

 and warm flannels from the previous evening, I had myself car- 

 ried across the river, which we had to ford three times, and 

 reached Bungol at 7.45 a.m. I felt the need of a day's rest, and 

 decided to remain here, but gave directions to Malagup to pro- 

 ceed with the coolies carrying the luggage which was not im- 

 mediately required, to Pan jut, our starting place on the coast. 

 I gave him instructions to reach there on the Saturday following, 

 and to discharge the coolies on arrival, giving him also a 

 letter for the district officer there to the same effect. I spent 

 the day resting and taking notes. Dull day, drizzling rain from 

 about 1 p.m., heavy rain from 3 p.m. 



Friday (Good Friday), March Slut. I had a comfortable 

 night, although only little sleep. We left Bungol at 8.3 a.m., 

 forded the Menternan and Inuman Rivers, climbed the Gunong 

 Kalawat, and reached Kalawat at 1.55 p.m., in fog and rain. It 

 was a heavy day's work, ascending nearly all the time, added 

 to which was the recollection of our march over the same ground 

 two weeks ago, when we had found the down-hill way so easy. 

 This time we did not attempt to camp out in this village, and I 

 managed to get a tiny, but comfortable room all to myself. 



Saturday, April 1st. We left Kalawat at 7.30 a.m., caught 

 sight of the sea for the first time again at 9.40, and were over- 

 joyed, like Xenophon and his companions. When approaching 

 Kappa, about 2 p.m., one of the men who had been in advance 

 came running back to say that a ' Tuan ' had arrived in the vil- 

 lage and wished to see me. It was Mr. Burls on his way to. 



