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BhTUBTJ 7, 1914. 



Poadok Batu, Sungai riitaE# 



To find oml's om aaiall rat with so imnj traps is very die* 



appointing, but later in tlie day I collected som birds, a eaall 



Sciurue parirus and some hats, mw to my oollection# fhaee 'bats 



. I collected late this afternoon in tlie caTe about two htmdred 



]^rd8 froai its oii.trano0# 



Tim ant ram e of tlm uare which rm ubb as shelter might be 



referred to as a falsa entrmce ss it la omlj penatrabla for about 



twenty pirds, but hj climbing oiror the rockB outside in the ra¥ine 



ana. following the etroain, v.^e enter tho care troiii dov/n inside can 



eea a hole partly ologijed by rocks which Qoiaieeta with oiir ^shelter 



aboTa#. for a few ^mniB, ub ve entered tbc^ oaTe (mding in tra 



■etraaia) we had to Btoop, f the top of Vm care xb low and oompar- 



than UQ the ea¥e broadened ^ wo stopped tip on a soft banl:^: of white 

 8snd ami liad to E^toop bybu lower tiian before. A fow feet further 

 there me a great aleTt in tha roofc abo^e orir heads which grev/ smaller 

 tmardB its top » but as it was slanting, wo oould not me more than 

 a few yards upwards* A carbide or an electric reflector lamp ?roiiM 

 probably be lauoh better for oa.To s^-jloring than an oil laiap, for the 

 ohiimtya of the oil laups br eak, as a rtiie , •^;*aneTsr the latai) is 

 anything more than slightl/ tilted-i Btlll f-nrttiar on, %im oaTt 

 bromdamS, but tbe etrearti flowed under a ledg-o, m we oould not 

 follow, but fbiiiiil another i.^erarre which cam again to the straam* 

 At thi£t i::d&co the roof of the oi^c Id^jh, }iOErible thirty feet, 

 and it was Mjigin^ ftou tM top of 'fchio -ulace that i found these 

 bats ?A th whito BpotB on the r?.idoa of their back. Ab eoon ae the ^ 

 rajs of light from tha lam^) novM Btrilrc thorn, thejr t/oitld imriiediately 



h, as If at Bmm foriiar tiiiB it had been tiators^ 



wept> 



