156 - 



£0, 1914* 



Iran ta Malalc* 



My little musang died dmring the nighti 



Cloa495) 



beaa a j,;et aliice its oaptwe two months ago, and ^me that 

 it 



aad bananae 



8 been kept on the boat and fed on ooMaBBed silk^ rice,, 

 latter part of the time it wuz Tory aotlTS arid 



talce.li on land it iwuld follow 



m 



would play about life a kit 



close at my he ale am on the boat did not like to 



but 



lited to waiter about exainiiiirxg eirorythii^ ab^rd especially at night# 

 It i:rolmbly ate aome araanio which catiead its death # 

 fhis fiiomi^ 1 oalled on Man-tenant Matsis(?) and he ehowad m 



a beaut if ul 



fmllor md his 



^d broiaght from Upper Kajan, one of the 



to BBB m of f* 



LeaTe Long Iran about noon in tow of the GoTarnsBnt steamor^ 

 arrxTo at 



ThB captain of tho BtBsmr, a Malay, cane and told me %at there 

 lots of door abomt Mtlak, bo about 8: 00 P»M# I started oirfc with 

 tha lamp and hunted until about one o'cloel: A*M# I saw the ayae 



dear but oonld not pet near 



-a the wat#r was d^ 



between 



thtm. and mm 



tlB Maha'^^am riTor, close to the riTor are high 

 enough so that they are rarely flooded but bade froa the river ia all 

 i when the riTer ia high it is almoet imposaiblo to 



April £1, 19M. 



Melak to !I?angganii:^ 



&tm A^M# WO loft » 



tmm no s 



I 0xpoaod foi^ do^en of plates and hope that eoma 

 pioturaa, but the plates are bad, hixriiig bo 



laiem will 

 kept too 



