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Mat Linggi tia I been iravellinj^' since the early morning 
from his previons night's sleeping; place and was cuokinj^ his 
rice when we arrived, after he had eaten we proceeded ll little 
further on our journey and camped abont 4 o'clock. 
Our camp was near the site of a Sakai one which had 
recently been abandoned. We had seen many si^jns of these 
Sakais on the way np the Katiaw Wan Hadji informed me 
that the camp had been made by wild S^ikaia. w lio very seldom 
came down on to the main river, and who were hardly ever 
seen by the Malays. 1 nt»ticed tliat their camp merely 
consisted of a few sticks, and on inquiry was told by Wan 
Hadji that tliese people move about every few days and take 
the roof of their hut with them. It is made from the broad 
leaves of a ground palm called Dititn Kok, and when the camp 
is moved the roof is foldeil up and fastened on the heads of the 
women, each taking a small parcel. Ordy when it has become 
so rotten that it can no longt^r be folded up it is abandoned, 
and fresh leaves are cut. Here is economy in bbonr worth 
noting! These Sakais have no system of cultivation, existing 
on wild roots and on what animals they can kill and fish the}'' 
can catch. I have seen some of these people in the UIu 
Lepar» which rises on the other side of the mountains lhat we 
were in. Wan Hadji told me that their blow pipes were not 
made out of bamboo, which is customarv, Init (vom a solid 
piece of wood, which is split, hollowed out, and then bound 
together again. He said that they were very clever w ith these 
blowpipes wliich were much mf»re accurate than the bamboo 
ones, and naturally lasted much longer. I have in my 
possession a blowpipe of this type which I obtained many 
years ago in Borneo which has been made from a piece of iiard 
red wood called in the vernacular pcua'^a. I should have 
much hked to have seen one of the blowpipes from the Ulu 
Katiay, but unfortunately we did not come across the Sakais 
themseh'es, and even if we had T expect that it would have 
been a difficult business to get into communication with them. 
It took up three days to get back to Pulau Hesar, A\'aii Hadji 
tried a "short cut" and landed us in shocking country, near 
Gunong Dulang on which I believe there is a trigoi^ometrical 
station beacon- At one place we had to climb down a gorge 
which was practically a waterfall for 500 feet. It was one 
mass of fallen timber and j^ratiite boulders; how my heavy 
loaded companions managed it I do not know, I bad as much 
as I could do to get along at all. and I was only carrying my 
rifle. We got into Pulau Besar just at dark on the evening of 
the 19th of August, all well, but my men's feet a good deal the 
worse for wear. There is little more for me to tell about the 
