AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 21 
Madihit Kalabits was drowned just by the kuala Tuan owing to his 
boat capsizing in the rapids there. Once or twice we shipped a lot 
of water and only just managed to bale it out in time for the next 
rapid. ‘That return journey from the kuala Tuan all the way 
down to the Government station at Limbang took us just 18 hours 
actual paddling. 
At the kuala Sipangi we were much bothered by bees, which 
simply swarmed on the bank while we ate; luckily no one was 
stung, but we were glad to be off again, leaving these unwelcome 
visitors behind. ‘The country becomes more open as far as we can 
see it and sandstone crops up again; quite a change after the narrow 
gorges passed through lower down. At the mouth of a little ditch 
called the Delong we drew up our boats for the night (3.30 p.m.) 
after a long day of comparatively easy going. Soon rig up a lancho 
among the bamboos on the right bank and go to sleep with the 
comforting prospect of but one day’s journey between us and the 
kuala Madihit, where our river troubles are to end. St. John gives 
a vivid account of his troubles in getting up the rapids in the 
gorges just passed (1. c. pp. 63-65). 
May 15th: (Temp. 8 am. 76°). A good deal of rain last 
night and consequent fresh in the river this morning, however we 
get off at 7.30 going very slow against the rising stream. Progress 
for the most part can only be made by seizing hold of bushes along 
the bank and dragging the boat along that way until one comes to a 
corner where the stream is too strong to allow the boat to pass, 
then every one seizes a paddle and letting go the bushes paddles for 
life across to the other side, so as to creep up some twenty yards 
of slack water there as far as the next bend, when the process is 
repeated. ‘The dash across the current usually involves the loss of 
some dozen yards and this distance has to be re-paddled. ‘The 
accompanying diagram illustrates the method of progress. 
R. A. Soc., No. 63, 1912. 
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