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KINA BALK: SECOND EXPEDITION. 
number of birds club together the better for their mutual protection. Amongst the forest- 
growth it is often bitterly cold—so cold, that when I found an open sunny spot I used to 
bask in the sun awhile for warmth. 
26th, 27th, 28tli, 29th.—These days have been very wet and cold. I am quite done 
up for want of proper food, and shall be glad when the Dusuns come to carry our baggage 
back to Kiau. 
March 1st, 2nd.—This morning we had a very clear view of the high mountain to the 
S.E., which forms the centre of my sketch facing page 167. 
3rd.—Seven Kiaus arrived at 10 A.M., and in two hours we were ready to start, and bid 
adieu to the spot which has done so much for my ornithological reputation. By 4.30 P.M. 
we had reached the slanting rock in the bed of the Kadamyan, under the usual steady down¬ 
pour of rain during the whole of this journey ; here we are going to sleep the night, starting 
for Kiau to-morrow morning. To-night, as I lie amongst the rocks watching the Dusuns, 
who are visible in the firelight, they are sitting round a fire in a circle and handing 
round for inspection and general admiration of the company—as the winner of some prize 
cup would do with his friends in this country—the empty meat-tins they have found at the 
camp; it is truly a picture of barbaric simplicity. The temperature is here to us, after our 
long sojourn in the highlands, quite warm. 
4th.—We started for Kiau soon after daylight, reaching that village about 11 a.m. 
While walking up the Kiau spur we had to pass through the fields belonging to the 
inhabitants of the lower village, who turned out and had high words with Kuro and the 
other porters. As this quarrel did not concern me I plodded steadily on up that wearily 
long hill-side, leaving the Dusuns to settle their own disputes. Later on, in the afternoon, 
the headman of the lower village, accompanied by three of his followers dressed in their 
best, arrived at Kabong’s house, and here held a long palaver. This Dusun chief demands 
a quantity of cloth, equal in amount to that paid by me to the Kiau porters, as he says 
Kina Balu belongs to him. Kuro is the chief spokesman for this village, and is sitting 
with a nonchalant air, leaning his back against the side of the house; the only word that this 
great man deigns to utter, to every statement made by the infuriated old chief sitting 
opposite to him, is “ udut,” which is the Dusun equivalent to our word “ liar.” Kiau was 
visited last year by one of the Company’s officers, w T ho, during his short stay, settled the 
affairs of the Kiaus, swore them in to the Company, and settled the annual payment of poll- 
tax. The old chief says that he has been made headman, and on this he bases his foolish 
demands; but as we have only his word for it, we are not inclined to respect him, and 
certainly less inclined to pay him for other peoples’ work. The account of this officer’s 
visit will be found in the ‘British North Borneo Herald’ for July 1887. I do not think 
these hurried scampers through the country do any good, as it would take months for any 
European to understand the tribal problems of these people; and the only way to do this 
would be by a lengthened residence in the district. As a proof of this, I hear that the 
Company’s relations have since become strained with these villagers, and that only lately 
it has been found necessary to send a police expedition into the neighbourhood. 
I shall now make a few concluding remarks on this part of my second expedition. 
During my sojourn on the mountain we spent some of the most miserable days imaginable 
