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Dusuns, and Mus infraluteus, the “ Mankulum,” are occasionally caught, and afford these 
people quite a meal. Hats are often split and fixed on bamboo frames, then smoked and 
stuck over the fireplaces in the houses until required. To-day the weather was splendid, 
without a drop of rain. 
19th.—This camp, being in a broad open place in the full sunlight, is a wonderful 
place for beetles and butterflies. I collected about the camp some magnificent new 
Cetonias (see illustrations facing p. 184). This group of beetles was described by the late 
Mr. H. W. Bates ; another portion of this collection has been described by the Rev. H. S. 
Gorham: copies of the papers by these gentlemen will be found at the end of this work. 
To-day Buntar shot three large grey-backed, white-chested monkeys, which we gave to the 
Dusuns on condition that they skinned them for us. The skins, unfortunately, soon 
became destroyed by the blowflies, so I got another skin ; this also soon became spoilt, and 
on our way to Melangkap I threw it away. This monkey was a new species and has been 
re-discovered since on the Baram River and named, after its discoverer, Semnopithecus Jiosei. 
Another fine day without rain. 
20th.—Kuro came early, like a vulture which scents its prey from afar: Kuro has 
smelt the monkeys, or has heard of them from the other Dusuns. Kuro had a day with the 
three large monkeys shot yesterday ; he prepared one for me, and was such an adept with 
the skull that it struck me that he had prepared a few human ones in his day. He 
tells us that in Kiau there are over fifty heads, which have been taken from the various 
tribes around. Just now, he says, four Kiau men, with a band made up of others from 
Koung, Labang Labang, and Teung-Tuhan, are out head-hunting, and have gone to attack 
a village at the head of the Tawaran River. In Kabong’s new house there are two head- 
marks of rather recent date, probably since the building of the house. Kuro made a hearty 
meal off monkey soup, and before he had finished his day’s work his face was splashed with 
soup and gore. There is something too human about a monkey; I must say I object to 
shoot them, and seldom did, except when they attacked the native maize-fields. These 
Dusuns are very keen after monkeys, and would eat an Orang-Utan. 
21st.—I am again ill with a bad cold, so do not go far from the camp, being in a 
weakly state from want of good food. The Dusun rat-traps are so numerous that all the 
ground-birds are long since extinct in this forest. Kabong after visiting his traps one 
morning brought me two extraordinary lizards: they have large swollen heads and a flat 
patch of broad sharp-edged scales above the tail of a greenish-blue colour, the callosities on 
the head being of a pale blue, almost white. This species, of which I give a drawing 
copied from Dr. M. F. Mocquard’s splendid account of my collection, was named by that 
gentleman Pelturagonia ceplialum (see illustration facing page 56, fig. 2). The female is 
very much smaller and of a dull brown. These traps often catch, besides lizards, the large 
earthworms, so beautifully are they adjusted. To-day the weather was fine but cloudy. 
22nd.—To-day a Dusun brought in a gigantic rat, but in a very decomposed state and 
full of maggots; but the cold in my head is so bad that my sense of smell has completely 
gone, and to that science may be grateful for the addition of the “ Mankulum ” to the 
genus Mus. 
23rd, 24th.—Busy sketching, the weather being splendid. 
