58 AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 
anyone. On the return journey there was a similar large gap 
between the Mago and the Apoh rivers (5 days’ journey) without 
any native habitations, except the temporary shelters occupied by 
the nomad Penans. If the district had been more populous it 
would have been possible to arrange for relays of coolies to follow 
us to Batu Lawi every week or so with fresh provisions, but as it 
was, the small Kalabit houses in the Madihit were barely sufficient 
to provide us with carriers for the bare journey to Batu Lawi and 
back. 
The general health of the expedition was by no means good. 
In the mountainous region, the natives in their scanty clothing 
felt the cold considerably although they used to keep fires going all 
night; but this availed little in the continual dampness. Many 
developed fever and bad colds, while I had to treat stomach dis- 
orders, cuts and bruises very frequently. The shortage of food on 
the return journey was a further hardship. Nevertheless they bore 
their troubles well and usually managed to raise a laugh at some 
enlivening sally from poor, ever-cheerful Madu, my much regretted 
Land- Dayak boy. I was fortunate enough to keep in excellent 
health the whole time and thoroughly enjoyed the invigorating 
mountain air. 
I must not conclude without a word of recognition of one of 
the pleasantest and at the same time most instructive features of 
the whole expedition; that was the invarizble welcome and cour- 
teous hospitality always extended to us at every house; and 
reflecting on the diversity of tribes we met, viz. —Bruneis , Bisayas, 
Dayaks, “Tabuns, Adangs, Kalabits, Penans , Kayans, Long Watts, 
Long Kiputs and Bukits, not forgetting some Chinese traders—it 
speaks much for the wide- spread nature of good feeling among 
the natives of those districts towards the white man’s rule in 
Sarawak. Long may it remain so! 
Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soe., No. 63, 1912. 
