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KINA BALK. 
I remained in Melangkap until the 7th of April, not being able to make any more 
expeditions to the mountain, as I had barely sufficient cloth to pay my way to the coast. 
So I sent Nyhan and two other Kadyans to the village of Teung, where they remained a 
few days, collecting specimens of Dendrocitta cinerascens, and one specimen of a Timeliine 
bird, the only one obtained in Borneo (Stachyris poliocephala). They also procured a pair of 
Pitta arcuata, one of the handsomest species in this genus, and that is saying a good deal. 
Our relations with the Melangkaps were most friendly; they visited us nearly every 
day, generally towards evening, after the day’s work was over. The young women, Kratas 
especially, took a great interest in my Chinese servant, who, I may mention, is a very 
handsome Chinaman. Kratas flirts so openly with him that her little boy of a husband is 
getting quite nasty, and one evening insisted on sitting in our private apartment, from 
which at last he was forcibly ejected by the Chinaman, who is very powerful. This so 
upset the youth, that in future he always came armed, with two or three of his friends, and 
I believe with little provocation these youths would have attacked the Chinaman. 
We made daily expeditions to the forest near Melangkap and collected many good 
birds, including Mubigula montis , Ilarpactes orescius, and the female of a new Trogon, since 
named Harpactes vidua ; the male of this species up to the present has not been discovered. 
On the evening before we left, Nyhan secured a pair of a beautiful little green Finch, 
ChloTura lorneensis (see illustration facing p. 96). 
I now exchanged most of the things I did not want to take back with me with the 
Dusuns for food. Meat-tins still fetch a good price in exchange for vegetables, but tins 
that have good lids are much valued : a few small medicine-bottles being highly prized, so 
much so that the following year I brought a few dozens with me. t 
It was with great difficulty that I was able to find enough goods to pay the Dusuns to 
carry our baggage to the coast; but with old clothes, tins, bottles, and other rubbish I was 
able to satisfy the porters. On the evening of the 6th of April the porters were paid off 
and their packs tied up, which now consist of light bulky parcels of bird-skins. I left a 
few pounds of shot with a Dusun, which he faithfully took care of and returned to me the 
following year. 
The next morning the Avhole village remained at home to see us start, and many were 
the salutations of “ Passi passi! ” (“ Good-bye! ”) we received on starting; and we promised 
to return the following year. 
The Dusuns carried my collection to Billio’s village on four buffaloes : one of the men, 
being evidently a new hand on buffalo-back, fell off four times, and arrived at our resting- 
place for the night a mass of mud; his buffalo sat down in the river at each crossing, so 
the old man in his rage drove his spear through the animal’s ear. We took a short cut 
across the hills after fording the Panataran some distance below Melangkap, and in the 
evening were far on the other side of Ghinambur. The river was much higher than when 
we came, and at two fords the Chinaman got into difficulties. The dog Jack became quite 
clever at crossing the river, and would go well above the ford before attempting to cross. 
With a little more water the Tampassuk would have been unfordable. I often thought 
when travelling along this river what an excellent trout- or salmon-river it would make, 
some of the pools being perfect for casting. 
