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When W0 left Doi^gala there was a strong ^uthwest hreeze ima we 

 were booh out of the bay 'but later the viind died somewhat and we 

 hardly- mora thm, drifted alougi^ Ahoiit dusk wa ware "beaalmei but 

 after dark came a light breeze from the motiiitaiBe^ 1 elept in** 

 terinit tsntlf until we reaohed hItbM la about thraa o'aloel in the 

 morning and anchored about three hun-axad ^ards off shore* 



Mlj 15, 

 Sirendja. 



BireM Ja is a small kaiipor^ twenty nina miles noi^th of i)on- 

 ggala^ Share has reoantl^ baen ooristrmoted a road bo tlmt at the 

 present tine it is possible to go by horse from ^onggala to ^irondja 

 and ^ m toM^eTon farther north (possibly to Damp alas ) • fh© road 

 with fa^/ 0:to apt ions is mi fie olose edong the shar*6# fha bmilding 

 of the roads throughout all the parts of BOTneo aiid Oelabes which I 

 ha¥e Yieitod is doiB by tha natiTes, forced by the gO¥ernri©nt« Each 

 ^la bodied imti^e wnn ie required to work on the rcmde from four 

 to tan dsjrs a month; the tini.e being lesaaned whan roads are oompleted, 

 only suffioient bein^ demnded to keep tha roads in repair* 



Hear the shore at -dreadja the laxid ie. low^ a fflixtmre of said 

 and black detritus. ftore ie somt eaall Jmi^l© whioh i^pears to 

 be all seooM. grwth* Some ewariipe.in which grow imny sago-palias, 

 and elightly inland from the s^mmiB are fields of dry ^ddy emd 

 large fields of ^*Lalang" or long coaroo grasBt I was told by the 

 iMti'TOB that deer were plentiful so at night I hunted inland 

 through tha f iolda of rioa and grass until nearly thrae o'clock in 

 the aorning but did not get a shot at a doer* Pigs are evidently 

 plentiful f or I aaw may traoks miA wounded one ^sll black or^ 

 m^ieh left a trail of blood hut had strength enough to go Bcrm dis- 

 tant a* 1 followed until it want into a mse of rattans which was 



