AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT KINA BALU. 
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soon after. I heard that the rice^ coolies were awaiting’ us in 
this village. They had left Panjut on March 5th with instruc- 
tions to proceed to Kiou, but, being afraid of the people of Kiou, 
they had stopped here. 
Satnrdai/, jlfajxh 18th. We left Koung at 7.40 a.m. and 
proceeded along’ the right bank of the Tampassuk, climbing over 
many cliffs and boulders along the edge of the river. Then we 
forded the deep and ra])id river Lobang near its junction with 
the Tampassuk, passed through some swampy undulating ground 
covered with grass, fern and busliwood, forded the small and 
winding Kiulan river several times, ascended a high and stee]) 
hill, and reached Kiou at 12.30 p.iii. Kiou is a '‘village of con- 
siderable size, the largest we had met so far during our march, 
scattered over an extensive grassy clearing on an enormous 
slope, with many clusters of coco-nut palms in the vicinity of the 
houses. I heard that I was the first European who had visited 
Kiou for four or five years, but it is apparently more than that, 
as two men showed me certificates from Dr. (1. D. llaviland, 
dated April 24th, 1892, which stated that the bearers had acted 
as his g’uides during his ascent of Kina Balu in March 1892. 
Dr. Haviland, called ‘Tuan Bunga’ by the natives, seems to have 
been the last European here, and before him Mr. John ^Vhite- 
head in 1887, who is remembered as ‘Tuan Burong.’ Malagup, 
the Dusun Chief, here came to me soon after our arrival, 
saying ; 
.1/. ‘Tabek, Tuan, itu orang coolie man satii ayaim’ 
IL J[. ‘^Apa? Itu orang coolie Samoa Samoa man satu 
ay am?” 
M. ‘Tabek, Tuan, satu ayain besar.’ 
JL IT. “Satu ayain besar? Apa macham ayani besar?” 
J7. ‘Tabek, Tuan, satu kerbau.’ 
The men had apparently enjoyed the bullock I had given 
them two days before, l)ut I am afraid my answer to Alalagup 
did not encourage similar requests. Still the men seemed to be 
bent on pleasure, for they asked me for a holiday the next day, 
which happened to be a Sunday, To this I agreed. In the 
morning the weather had been dry, except for a few minutes of 
drizzling rain. But we had rain all afternoon till late into the 
night. Aneroid at 8.45 p.m. 2400'; thermometer 70° F. 
