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AN EXA^EDITION TO MOUNT KINA EALU. 
asked for cloth and red beads. Thus, with the exception of the 
last, it is the necessaries of life which would seem to be recjuired, 
not trifles, though the red beads, as universally worn by the 
women, may almost also be regarded as necessaries. Instead of 
barter 1 had supplied myself with plenty of small silver, but was 
highly astonished to find these coins were almost unknown ; even 
Malagup, the lJusun chief, living in a comparatively rich district 
on the coast close to where a large fair is held once or twice a 
week, did not know the value of a 5-eent piece. These coins 
were always accepted with distrust, except by a young man in 
Bungol who had a collection of them. But he had lived in Kiidat 
for some time and spoke Malay hueutly. On the other hand, notes 
(B. Borneo has notes down to the value of #1, 50 cents, and 
25 cents), silver dollars, and copper cents were always accejrt- 
able, copper being apparently the chief currency, though the 
natives were glad wlien they could exchange their copper sav- 
ings for silver dollars with us. In great demand also were the 
ein]>ty provisions tins, especially those with lids, and it was 
amusing to see the scramble when one thi'cw an empty con- 
densed milk tin away. 
On the Murvh. We generally started at 8 a.m. and reached 
the next stopping place about 2 p.m., the villages being at 
convenient distances from each other. The weather as a rule 
was line in the morning, but rain set in nearly always in the 
early afternoon, so that we seldom reached camp without get- 
ting wet. However, this made little difference, as we were 
often soaking wet from fording the rivers. Naturally we al- 
ways changed on reaching camp and made an attempt to dry 
our things, but they were generally still wet on the next morn- 
ing, and when setting out on our march we always put on the 
wet things from the day before, feeling only little discomfort. 
There is a narrow path from Pan jut right up to Kiou, just rvide 
enough for one man, but broadening out in the neighbourhood of 
the villages, and of course branching off here and there. It runs 
for a considerable distance along the top of the moimlain ridges, 
rather provokingly following every one of their curves, but 
having the advantage of a free outlook for ascertaining one’s 
whereabouts. Paths along the rivers on this route were ex- 
ceedingly rare, thus differing essentially from the Tampassuk 
