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KINA BALK: SECOND EXPEDITION. 
A Bajow has been murdered by some Dusuns not far from Ghinambur since I was 
last in Kiau, which has created a little excitement. 
6th.—Busy drying my bird collection. I also planted a number of Nepenthes and other 
plants that I brought from our camp on Kina Balu, but all died before I left for the 
Tampassuk, except the Nepenthes and a handsome Kalndiuvn. 
7th.—The Kiau Dusuns returned to their village loaded with rice, but I am too busy to 
accompany them. 
8th, 9th.—Yesterday I arranged with the porters, and this morning was able to start 
at 6.30 A.M. with seven Melangkaps. We should have reached Kiau the same evening, 
but one of the Melangkaps gave his load to a young woman after I had started, and she 
delayed our progress. At 6 p.m., when we reached the foot of Kiau hill, the woman 
was quite exhausted and could not proceed : four of the Dusuns reached Kabong’s house 
before dark. I, Buntar, and the others passed the night in the small watch-houses. It 
is a great nuisance the way in which the Dusuns transfer their loads to one another 
without your being aware of it till several hours after, as the day’s journey is always 
regulated by the slowest porter. 
10th.—Started at daybreak and reached Kabong’s house at 7 a.m. The Dusuns in this 
house are very noisy, and now that the girls begin to know the Kadyans they are too 
talkative. At night they work hard before my lamp spinning cotton, which they mix when 
weaving with their cloth. This cloth is made from the fibre of a long-leaved Curculigo, 
sp. 1, and is called by the Dusuns “ Lamba the lengths of fibre which run in parallel lines 
along the underside of the leaf are separated and tied together. This occupation is 
generally carried on of an evening. The fibre is wound round a stick, and when sufficient 
has been obtained is woven into a hard cloth on the small Dusun looms: one of these 
interesting looms I brought home, together with several pieces of native cloth. When woven 
the cloth is dyed with indigo-blue, and mostly used by the women for petticoats. After 
my tiring journey I was unable to sleep, owing to the noise in and under the house. I find 
the following note in my journal:—“ This house is quite a Zoo : below a herd of pigs grunt 
and squeak, dogs fight and snarl, cocks crow, hens cackle; above babies squealing, men and 
women laughing and talking: combine all these sounds and you get an idea of the babel 
in a Dusun house.” 
11th.—Arranged our baggage for a fresh start to-morrow for the Kinokok valley, 
which country lies over the spur at the back of the village and up to the base of the main 
buttress ridge, or below the summit of Kina Balu traversed by us. The Kiaus told me that 
there were Pittas in that district, but I afterwards discovered by “ Tembongeau ” they 
meant a bird which we afterwards discovered to be a new Harpactes. Nyhan delighted me 
this morning by bringing in an extraordinary bird ; it was of a general dark brown plumage, 
with the entire head and a patch on the sides of the neck bare of feathers, the skin being 
bright yellow and the bill coral-red. The Dusuns call this bird the “ Rigo Hi goit 
belongs to a new genus, and has been named Allocotops calvus. 
12th.—Left Kiau soon after daybreak, and in two hours over hilly country reached the 
River Kinokok, a confluent of the Kadamyan, joining that river a few miles above the 
village of Koung. The forest round about us is virgin, and should form a splendid 
