AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT KINA BALU. 
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iiativ'e boat. Soon after, we met Mr. llajiies. As Mr. Little in 
his letter of instruetitins to Mr. Hajiies liad reconmiended that 
we should take the d’uaraii route to Kina Balu, he very kindly 
promised to accom|)any me the next day as far as Panjut, a vil- 
lage <ni the mainland where our luggage carriers were awaiting 
us. I slept on lioaid the ‘ Enterprise.’ 
March We left the ‘ Enter |)rise ’ at sunrise 
and noticed crowxls of the long-spined Sea-Urchin Diademn 
setomm in the shallow water below the jjier, mostly sticking on 
to pieces of rotten timber lying at the bottom. Prom a fisher- 
man we obtained a large number of the huge worm Sipnacalus 
rohih'ftas which he was digging from the sandy shore for bait. 
At 8.80 a.ni. we left ( Jaya in two rowing boats manned by Bajous, 
and had a most pleasant journey. W’hen nearing (rantian, wt' 
jr.issed through shallow waiter wdth beautiful corals and numliers 
of the striking red and lilack starlisli Oreartcr nodona,'!. At 
(lantian, usually known as Kabaggu l.iy the natives, we met Mr. 
C. II. Keasberry, Sub-Treasurer and Postmaster. Then proceed- 
ing, w^e entered the Menkabong river at 1 p.m., passed tlie vil- 
lage of Mumpelum at 2 p.m., and soon after reached Berunggis 
wdiere w'e landed. Here, without AA'aiting for the second boat 
in Be Fontaine’s charge, which had dropped somewdiat behind, 
]\Ir. Haynes and myself, with a feAV of the men, walked on to 
Panjut, "about 2| miles distant, passing through swampy fields 
with exceedingly poor padi — 1 hear by the way that this year’s 
padi crop has been a failure throughout North Borneo — and 
reached Pan jut at 8.15 p.m. ’\^^e settled dow-ii in a spacious 
Uusun house, wdth a splendid verandah, oruaraented with about 
twenty head-trophies, and caused the drums to be beaten, which 
signal Avas to call the men to fetch our luggage from Berung- 
gis. After about hours’ waiting, six Dusuns appeared Avith 
sledges drawn by- Avater-buffaloes and started off toAvards our 
boats. At 6 p. m., as there Avere no signs of the luggage, I* 
Avent back to Berunggis to hurry the men on and found that the 
second and larger boat had been obliged to stop loAver doAA’n 
the river, as the tide had gone out, and that only a part of the 
luggage could be removed that evening. W e returned toAvards 
Fanjut, and feeling somewhat fatigued I mounted a water-buf- 
falo’, but as it floundered into a hole, I Avas promptly thrown off. 
