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and we slept on brushwood beds, covered by our waterproof 

 sheets. 



We took the headman from the last village and some of his 

 people to guide us up the mountain, and were much struck by the 

 paralysing influence that the cold mountain air had upon them. 

 One man carried up a fowl as a present for us, and when we 

 reached the cave it had collapsed, and we had to warm it at the 

 fire to make sure it was alive before it was killed for our supper. 

 This same man, "Kurow," once gave me a few practical hints on 

 cooking as a fine art. He had found a wild cat in a trap, and 

 proceeded to roast the beast close to our camp, on a wood fire, 

 without any sort of preparation whatever. The smell was dread- 

 ful, the animal having been dead some time, and I remon- 

 strated with him, saying that we took off the beast's coat and 

 removed its inside before cooking it. " That wouldn't be nice," 

 said he ; "meat have no flavour ; how you make it taste nice that 

 way? " " Oh," I said, " sometimes we cut up herbs and make 

 stuffing." " Yes," he said in triumph to my men, " he takes away 

 the nice natural-flavoured stuffing, and then he must make up 

 a nasty mess of leaves and things to put inside." 



On the plains and near the coast in Borneo the climate is 

 pretty hot, say 95° in the shade at mid-day during the dry mon- 

 soon. I never saw the temperature below 75° at night, and so 

 vhen our Labuan men got up to 10,000 feet elevation they 

 thought a temperature of 50° or 55° bitterly cold. 



But, apart from the Nepenthes, there are many fine Orchids 

 and whole groves of lovely Ehododendrons, including the great 

 golden-flowered Bhodoclendron Loivii, Hook, fil., a splendid plant, 

 and many forms of B. rugosum, B. stenophyllum, B. ericoides, 

 and others unknown. 



The terrestrial Ccelogynes at 9,000 feet, growing on the same 

 plateau as N. Bajah, were especially beautiful, and of three or 

 four distinct species. There is also here a dainty Eria-like 

 Orchid, having spikes of white flowers resembling Lily-of-the- 

 Valley. 



On another spur, at 4,000 feet, we found the two forms of 

 Cypripedmm Dayanum named Petri and Burbidgei respectively 

 by Reichenbach. Here also, near the Pinokok Falls, grows 

 Nepenthes Burbidgce, with long stems and decurrent bases to 

 its leaves. The pitchers resemble those of N. Bafflcsiana in size 



