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in the sandstone rock the sides of which are very steep, and the 
path follows a ledge somewhat below the summit, which in many 
places is broken by clefts and gullies bridged by battangs. After 
proceeding for some distance a very heavy storm broke compelling 
us to return to the house. The houses here are not of the type 
usual among land Dyaks, as each family has a detached building 
with a space of a few feet intervening between the houses, but they 
are connected by the usual bamboo platform—the roofs are ex- 
tremely high pitched with ordinary flap windows, the internal 
arrangement is such that the space in front used for paddy pound- 
ing, ete., is often separated by a large outer door, thus dividing a 
house into two separate rooms. 
I could learn nothing here of the route to Bengkarum, but most 
of the Dyaks were certain that from Trebong direction could be 
obtained, so I decided to proceed thither the following day. As the 
coolies were rather heavily loaded, I engaged the services of two 
more Dyaks: after allotting them their packages and starting I was 
somewhat surprised to see that one had transferred his load which 
was not a light one to a small girl of about eight years of age, his 
daughter, she, wishing to pay a call at a house which we should 
pass, accepted the “privilege”? of Dyak women of carrying the 
men’s load. By a short cut we joined the path at the falls and - 
proceeded practically from the place where we had returned the 
day previously ; after walking for Jittle more than an hour we des- 
cended the ridge and crossed the stream to a fairly level tract of 
country surrounded on three sides by mountains: near by in a large 
open space were several Dyak houses. As the sitnation was so 
pleasing and the country promised well for collecting I decided to 
spend the remainder of the day here; we accommodated ourselves 
and baggage in the house belonging to the head man. A series of 
moans from the adjoining house attracted my attention; on entering 
I found a young woman suffering from a severe colic. I ordered 
her Dyak friends to apply two bottles filled with hot water and for 
her immediate relief I administered a tabloid of Warburg Tinct. On 
returning in the evening I found the patient had not had the bottles 
of hot water. 1 enquired the reason and to my surprise learned 
that they had not yet ht a fire to cook their rice and could not 
think of doing so before their evening meal, although they had no 
doubt but that the hot water would be beneficial. It was not long 
before those Dyaks had a fire lighted and heated the water, before 
cooking the rice. 
I now followed the course of the river in the bottom of the 
valley which I found to be a splendid collecting ground; my atten- 
tion was immediately attracted by a beautiful scarlet orchid 
Dendrobium cinnabarium, growing plentifully on many trees and 
flowering freely, closely resembling in habit the Pigeon orchid; 
many other rare orchids and ferns occur here and a large nepenthes 
of elegant shape; insects were rather scarce, but among the few 
taken was a fine specimen of Ornithoptera Brookeana. 
R. A. Soc., No. 60, I9II. 
