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the Djraks want to look at Vm traps tliey foiiiid this eecaped red 

 monkMj dead on the trails where it had dropped from the treas aboTa* 



Same of all kinds is rerj eosrca hera.^ maiBJiale esptolall-y; 

 the only monkeys are Gibbons and rad pjgathrlir, but the former 1 did 

 not see but hacird thein calliriiy in tha Liorning* 



Olmeyer and the Hadin hawe finished sarireying and the Kadin*s 

 mm haT0 coll ee tad about fifty pounds of adibla miftB^ nests, but 

 the J say the ommm ImrB been robbed of many ponnda of nasta, by 

 Malays or DyaJts^ most likely tiie for:i!er, for I haTe neTer known a 

 Byak to steal anything* llBrst af'-nin e^hall i make camp in a osTeg, 

 for it is too damp, gloomy dark and alaoet impossible to pro- 

 parly prepare spaciiaanB on acootint of the dampnees* After being 



the bank of the riirer; on the xo-ar th doy Ah bini;;: and 'jeear both 

 had BOMB feTor and yesterday was rainy m I sot cold k wet, 

 abo'ut fiT0 o'clock sent Oasar and Ding oi3.,t to gat more firs wood» 

 Ah Sing had a chill and lay shivering and moaning on the floor of 

 the oa.¥e# 



When tbe \"/ho ^oub for ifood ra turned, all wae dark, and 

 tliay dnmped 'tha wood on the floor beeide aie# Aa I _ bent oror some 

 ©monldtrias »s.ttite. which I had been vainly 'trj^ing to feap ablate, I 

 reached for another piece of wood and just as my himd tonohed it, a 

 shock of pain mn up my arm, oatiBing me to Jnrap, and on getting a 

 match., found a scorpion \Ciloh had stung me#. I knew of nothing 

 I oonld do to relieve the lain which was intense, a.iid as the nstiires 

 knew of nothing to relieve thci psin, I had an almost sleaplase night* 



ox my 



got faTart bo want back to 



