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AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT KINA BALU. 
many cases covered by rattan matting’, and in a few cases the 
owners of the houses brought me a special mat to vsit upon. The 
space below the houses was generally inhabited by pigs, but 
though they grunted day and night, it did not interfere with 
our peace. Much more annoying w^as the continuous coughing 
of the people, many of them seeming to suffer from chronic 
colds. Taken altogether, the stay in the Dusun houses w’as far 
from pleasant, and on dull days exceedingly dreary, but, after 
our experience at Kalaivat, it was preferable to camping in the 
open. 
Food. As I mentioned before, the last padi crop was a 
failure in X. Borneo, but even in prosperous years it would pro- 
bably be impossible to get sufficient rice from the different vil- 
lages for a large body of carriers, and on this occasion people 
did not even like to sell a few cents’ worth. In the district we 
visited communication is a matter of intense difficulty, every- 
thing has to be carried by man, the hilly parts are quite impas- 
sable for bullocks, and the rivers are torrents along which even 
the smallest crafts could not find a passage except for a few 
hundred yards at a time. However, in almost every village I 
was able to get fowls and eggs for my own consumption, the 
former ranging in price between 10 and 20 cents, sometimes 
even less, and eggs from 1 to 2 cents.. But large parties would 
probably have been unable to get sufficient. Milk was unknown. 
Coco-nuts we got in every village free of charge, and they were 
always welcome. There was practically no house without a 
group of coco-nut and betel-nut palms close by. Two or three 
times we got Langsats, which seemed to grow half wild, espe- 
cially near Koung’. They were very refreshing, but unusually 
sticky. 
Scientific Results. 
IMammals. 
From the list given below it will be noticed that no big 
game was obtained during the expedition. 'The largest mammal 
seen was a black long-tailed monkey, probably Semnopithecus 
femoralu, observed near Gantian. However, in the mountain jun- 
gle between Kappa and Kalawat, we passed several traps which 
we were told were intended for Tembadaus {Bos sondaicns). 
