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I divided a piece of grey shirting, value $1, between the joint owners of the house, 
being my rent for any length of time, which in the end was nearly six months. The Dusuns 
we knew last year have given us small presents of fruit, though to judge by their faces 
we might have been perfect strangers to them. Gamboie and the old lady were undoubtedly 
pleased to see us again. Rain after mid-day. 
7th.—Busy all day arranging and drying the baggage, which is slightly damp. 
This house is a great improvement on the one we occupied last year. I have taken 
possession of one of the private apartments, which Buntar has made quite comfortable. 
Iiain after mid-day. 
8th.—My aneroid gives the height of Melangkap at 1300 feet. To-day it has kept 
fine up to 5 p.m. Just now a small richly-coloured Finch is in swarms in the paddi-fields, 
and is a great trouble to the Dusuns; this bird was not seen by us last year, the rice- 
harvest being over. Of the Chlorura I am unable to find further specimens amongst the 
flocks of this Finch ( Erythrura prasina). 
9th.—The Dusuns are good reptile collectors ; a man brought me a beautiful little snake 
to-day, bright coral-red on the underparts, and spotted with the same colour above. Rain 
after 2 p.m. 
10th.—We shall have to wait here until the two Kadyans bring up the rest of our 
baggage, consisting chiefly of rice ; they should arrive—the river permitting—in Melangkap 
on the 15th. The Dusuns do not seem anxious to carry our baggage to Kiau, the harvest 
being their excuse. Rain after 2 p.m. 
11th.—I was busy making a sketch of the mountain from Melangkap to-day. The 
men are steadily collecting the birds in the vicinity, and besides those mentioned last year 
they have obtained further specimens of a new Timeliine ( Mixornis montana ) and a brown 
Bulbul ( Criniger ruficrissus). Flocks of a northern Siberian Thrush ( Turdus olscurus), and 
dozens of Wagtails (. Motacilla melanope ), are about the village, these two species being on 
migration: of course many of the common lowland species are also present. The new 
Mixornis has a peculiar note (like its near relation M. lorneensis), which may be heard any 
morning in the vicinity of the village ; it is a hell-like “ Chou cliou luckier luckier .” The 
nest we have also found; it is a small ball of dried grass-stems, placed near the ground. 
Rain after 2 p.m. 
12th.-—Remarkable as being a fine day, a sharp shower falling at 2 p.m. 
loth, 14th.—Quite fine. This weather is very propitious for my men, who should 
leave Tampassuk to-day. I am doing a daily trade with the Dusuns, old and young, in 
frogs, snakes, lizards, and beetles, giving them in exchange needles, matches, and cottons; 
I brought quite a cargo of such articles with me for this purpose. One youth, whom we 
named Maharajah Malus (malus—\nzy) last year, is my best customer. This boy is a sort of 
do-nothing; he comes daily with some fine specimens of insects or reptiles, which he finds 
on his way to the rice-fields. He is rather vain, and wears round his neck two neatly-made 
necklaces of red and white grass. The village is in a filthy state of slush just now, the 
hill-sides being very slippery. 
15th.—The two men from the Tampassuk arrived in the campong soon after mid-day, 
having found the river easily fordable. They came beyond Ghinambur last night, and early 
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