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CHAPTER VIII. 
SULTAN PAITAILAN ASSISTS ME AGAIN.—GHINAMBUR.—AN UNPLEASANT NIGHT.—BILLIO LOSES THE 
WAY.—ILANUNS RETURN.—TEUNG VILLAGERS.—REACH MELANGKAP.—REFUSAL TO HELP US TO 
KIAU.-NATIVE GIFTS.-START FOR KIAU.—REACH KOUNG.—UNPLEASANTNESS WITH THE 
KOUNGS AND MELANGKAPS.—MEET EURO AND KABONG.—KABONG’s HOUSE.—BUSINESS-LIKE 
KIAUS.—START FOR SUMMIT.—FOREST CAMP-LIFE IN SUNLESS HOLE.—VISIT HIGHER ALTITUDES. 
—NEW BIRDS.—CHANGE CAMP.—BOTANY.—TRAPPING-PATHS.—NEW BIRDS.—VIEW FROM OUR 
CAMP.-—THE MISERIES OF CAMP LIFE.—RATS.—THE CAVE.—A VISIT TO THE UPPER GRANITE 
SLOPES.—EURO’S PRAYER.—LOW’S GULLY.—THE SUMMIT.—MORE PRAYERS FROM EURO.— 
RETURN TO THE CAMP.—ILLNESS.—RETURN TO KIAU.—EURO AND THE CHIEF OF LOWER KIAU.— 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT FOR FEBRUARY. 
ROM inquiries made during my first expedition, I came to the 
conclusion that it would be best to leave Labuan for Kina Balu 
by the middle, of December, as by the time I should arrive 
at Tampassuk the river would then be as low as at any time 
during the year. My party on this occasion consisted of six 
Kadyans, one of them, “ Buntar ” (a most useful and plucky little 
man), acting as my servant. By cutting down the numbers of my 
party I was the better able to make the rice last; this was my 
chief object in taking such a small number of followers—the providing of one’s followers 
with rice being one of the chief difficulties in Borneo. My friend Mr. A. H. Everett 
accompanied me to Abai, afterwards he proceeded to the Islands of Mantinani. 
The north-east monsoon, as usual at this time of the year, blew hard in our teeth, and 
several times I feared that my pakarangan, which we towed astern, would come to harm. 
16th December.—We steamed into Abai at 10 A.M., but as it was low water the steam- 
launch could not cross the bar, so we had to land all the baggage by means of the ship’s 
boat and my own on the small island opposite Abai, the ‘ Bujang Barram ’ leaving for 
Mantinani directly all was safely landed. Before dark we had succeeded in housing all our 
belongings in the old Rest House, where I had a sharp attack of fever, brought on, no 
doubt, by the rough voyage. 
17th.—We were busy arranging our baggage into suitable packs, for the buffaloes to 
carry to the Tampassuk. In the evening Nyhan shot a fine stag, or “ Rusa ” ; these animals 
