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CHAPTER IX. 
RETURN" TO MELANGKAP FOR RICE.—POTTED MEAT.—KINOKOK VALLEY.—NEW TROGON.—NEST OF 
MY CALYPTOMENA.—KABONG ON RATS.—NEW BEETLES.—EURO AMONG THE MONKEYS.—RESULTS 
OF TRAPPING.—KABONG’S NEWS.—DUSUN OMENS.—RETURN TO MELANGKAP.—ATTEMPT AT 
BLACKMAILING.—FEVER.—GAMBOIE VISITS GAYA.—HEAD-HUNTING RAID BY THE KIAU DUSUNS. 
—VISIT KAPAR VILLAGE.—A KAPAR DUSUN WOULD IAIPOSE A FINE.—RETURN TO THE COAST AND 
LABUAN.-HOME AGAIN. 
N the 5th of March I left with Buntar and three Kiaus, carrying my 
bird collection, for Melangkap. The object of this journey is to 
bring a further supply of rice and provisions to Kiau, as I intend 
to make another expedition from here into the Ivinokok valley 
and to remain there for a month. 
The Hadji and his companion, who have been living in Kiau 
since the 11th February, are on excellent terms with the Dusuns, 
and my friend Kabong has behaved well to them. The Hadji has 
collected some sixty birds, including specimens of the Tailor-bird spoilt by me last year: this 
is a new species— Phyllergates cinereicollis; he has also a new Zosterops, Z. clara. The other 
man has been busy collecting butterflies and beetles—the native children bringing numbers 
of the latter—some of which are very fine, belonging both to new genera and species. 
We left Kiau at 11 a.m. and accomplished the tiring journey to Melangkap by 5 p.m., — 
the reason of this good record being the splendid carrying qualities of the Kiau Dusuns : 
en route we met numbers of the Kiau villagers returning from a tamel, all more or less 
intoxicated. The two men left in Melangkap have done absolutely nothing as far as 
collections go, a few beetles and a dozen badly-skinned birds being the total of their work; 
but as they have taken good care of the things left in their charge, I must not grumble. 
Before I started for Kiau, now more than six weeks ago, Damaring, the son-in-law of 
the lady with the brass anklets, slaughtered a buffalo: after the feast a considerable portion 
of the animal remained ; this Damaring potted a, la Dusun, which consists in putting the 
meat into a jar with a small quantity of salt. The smell of this now semi-decayed meat 
cannot be imagined; the whole house is now pervaded with this most disgusting odour. 
Damaring and the family occasionally eat this filthy carrion, and the Kiaus who arrived 
with me to-night have also been treated to a feast off it. 
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