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the Panataran, which was cut especially for me and paid for last year ; they declare that they 
will not allow us or the two Dusuns who are carrying my baggage to go over this path until 
we have paid them so much cloth. This course I will not submit to. Buntar is in a great 
state of excitement and is talking very warlike ; he has filled the Winchester repeater with 
bullets, and evidently means fighting, and has ended by daring the Dusuns to defend the path 
against us. Knowing the character of these people, their threats are in no way alarming. 
When we reached the path in question the Melangkap braves were not there to defend the 
position, so we marched triumphantly to the camp, which is about a mile higher up the 
Panataran than the one last year. This was merely an attempt on the part of some of the 
Dusuns who had not received their fair share of baggage-carrying to frighten us; the men 
belonging to the house in which we are staying getting, of course, as much work as I can 
give them, this makes the others nasty. 
21st.—I sent two of the Kadyans back to Melangkap with the Dusuns—the Hadji 
is returning to Labuan, and the other is to remain in the village and guard my property 
during the absence of the others in Gaya. 
22nd to 28th.—I see I have made a mistake in again visiting this locality, as we are 
doing very little. I am low-spirited and far from well, so to-day sent Tungal to Melangkap 
to fetch some porters to carry our baggage back again; as I brought a very small supply of 
food, I shall not require more than five. The clearing made at last year’s camp is now 
covered with high coarse grass. I have collected further specimens of a flying lizard, 
Draco obscurus, a new species obtained last year. It is rather rare, frequenting the trunks 
of high dead trees, where it seems to remain, changing position from time to time by short 
flights. 
29th, SOtli.—The Dusuns arrived, so we started for Melangkap, as I am now very 
seedy and feverish, my legs hardly supporting my body : at the bottom of Melangkap 
hill I gave in and lay for some hours in high fever, with a splitting headache, amongst the 
boulders of the Panataran—such is the fate of all explorers in the tropics ! 
1st, 2nd May.—Have been quite prostrated with fever. The Hadji returned from 
Gaya and brought with him my mails and a copy of my last year’s collections in ‘ The 
Ibis,’ but I Avas so ill that my eyes refused to look over them. My old friend the priestess 
has been doing her best to hasten my recovery, and has several times said long Dusun 
prayers over me. 
3rd.—I am decidedly better. The Kadyans I have sent to a Dusun paddi watch-house, 
in a field at the top of this hill, on the edge of the forest. Gamboie, who accompanied the 
Hadji to Pulo Gaya—at his special desire—returned with an umbrella, two sarongs, and 
a box of biscuits; these are his purchases with the pocket-money I allowed him, and for 
uselessness to a Dusun could hardly be equalled. This Avas the first time he had ever visited 
the sea-coast, and consequently the first time he had ever seen the works of more civilized 
man. He Avent on board one of the coasting steamers; he could not describe this, as the 
Dusuns have no ideas of boats, much less of steamboats : the only articles that made an im¬ 
pression on this man’s mind and that could be compared Avith things Dusun Avere the ship’s 
JiaAvsers; these he described as buffalo ropes as thick as a man’s arm; the steamer, its 
engines, and the other triumphs of the Avhite man’s brain were as nothing to Gamboie, as he 
