-77- 
May ?1 - 
We left at eight o'clock, and took the road that parallels the 
bav for some miles. Here was my first vie- of the Indian Ocean, and 
of SiDclg?'s famous harbor, with the big conical island rising in 
thP middle of it. Anyone who has the good sense to come down that 
road in daylight that we took last night, has a ^"f^ outlook 
over the hlrbor, but the ride along the co ^^Jgig* lltng 
with coconut palms bending over the water, and caribou grazing ax g 
the wayside. 
The road wound gradually up into higher country At^^usan^ 
feet above sea level there were plenty of ««^ e ^3J^S the 
their industrious life bexng carried an P preparing the 
highway. We saw rice in all its st ages men ana p p pitting 
fields and making the walls ground each sawanou , f 
it into shape with their hands; the brigh J fireen -e D |as, 
bix feet " '-ore oil tne grounu, cpread out on grass mats along 
on the paddi with their feet. Kice w as spreau & 
the roadside to dry, as was »jw ^^^/SSti lite an ordinary 
time the kampong rubber, wrung out in what look, ii*e a for ' 8ll 
clothes wringer, and hung on poles to ory. me roaa xs> 
oxuoiicw b } >,<->+ Vi win prid women, as a drying ixexu iui 
purposes - as a club for both *e n .ana JJ°JJj d chickens to roost 
ell native products, a Jogs to si eep ana ^ hpve 
and children to play. An automobile driver in u - Malays, 
infinite patience, which is perhaps why all the driver are 3 , 
and one seldom sees a European at the wheel of his own cat . 
^ A'S we approached P^f /idempoean 
drawn cart, with a sway-bailed ^^^^^iag from the 
afternoon we passed these cat ^ ^ e £ plateF .u 
Monday market m P . Sid., talcing tne n ;k xl folded mountain sides, 
th f wa _ j~ nev - type of country to us - great loxaea Buuwvaa. > 
/covered thickly with buffalo grass, and feT tree.. 
We had lunch in the Pasanggrahan i?Pad. Sid Bill telephoned 
the Controller while we were waiting f or the na si go jeng to be 
, t -I /-»*-■ c, H-ohi-np over on his bicycle, ne is ^aumaj 
SSdSuftS tV/S and distressed to know that we are . unable 
^ X *°t fl ner t There are rhinos near here, .and two were shot 
not g xong alo . it seems a pity we cannot have one live one. 
The people around here are mi, : ed SggS^^iw^ 
-nnropched Kota Nopan we began seeing the Meningkabau inixuerioe 
cpproccnea ivul.c , ° firet Mpn'k'bau house, with its curious 
just before Laroe we saw the lirsx men * uc u , 
high-pointed roof ends. 
. UA ' iLi'i tno T „ e saw for the first time a pig-tailed 
»ec 85 »e SS&SS ^ thro. * « > the ^^TeX" 
were to see many instances of it. 
Kota Nopan has a fine big rest house, and we had a good 
reistafel for dinner. 
