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KINA BALU: SECOND EXPEDITION. 
and rather difficult at the many fords. An incident occurred to-day which might have had 
serious consequences. Gamboie had assisted me over a dangerous rapid where some 
Bajows were crossing with a quantity of rattans‘that they were bringing from a tamel. On 
reaching the opposite side Gamboie turned round to recross the river to assist the others. 
For some few moments he stood glaring at two Dusuns who were standing with the 
Bajows on the opposite side, and whom he had not noticed before; these two men at once 
turned sharply round and hurriedly made for the jungle. Gamboie, who was busy 
untying his kris from the top of his load, where he had placed it to keep it dry, became 
very excited and called out “Languk! ” two or three times, and proceeded to recross the 
river; but after following the two Dusuns to the jungle he waited there for the rest of the 
Melangkaps, who were far behind. In the meanwhile I gathered from the Kadyans that 
one of the two men who had bolted was Languk, the Bungal Dusun, who had 
murdered the Kapar man last year near Melangkap, and for whom an expedition had been 
organized in the spring. It was a very lucky thing for Languk and ourselves that 
Gamboie did not notice him before crossing the ford, or Languk’s head would in all 
probability have been in Melangkap that same evening, my baggage would have been 
thrown down, and the Melangkaps would have hurried home, fearing a Bungal attack. 
25th.—We started at daylight and reached Billio’s house by 11 a.m. ; here I bid adieu 
to Gamboie and our Dusun friends, with whom we have had many disputes, but on the 
whole must consider a decent lot of people, and on whom we have had to depend more or 
less for the successful carrying out of these two expeditions. Billio in an hour or two 
collected sufficient Bajows with their buffaloes to carry my collections to Abai, which we 
reached shortly before sunset. 
26th.—The Kadyans are busy getting the “ pakarangan ” ready for sea; it had not 
been spoilt by the sun, after having remained in the mangrove-swamp since the beginning 
of January. 
27th.—We started at mid-day for Pulo Gaya, and had a splendid view of Kina Balu 
in the evening. 
28th.—Reached Pulo Gaya and started that same evening for Labuan; the Avind being 
fair we touched Pulo Tega the following morning, where we rested during the heat of the 
day, setting sail once more about midnight, when the wind again favoured us. 
29th, 30th.—We reached Labuan at 8.30 p.m., sailing along the coast, occasionally 
towing the pakarangan with a long rope. The sea was slightly rough, but preferable to 
the mosquito-swarming Ivalias passage. In Labuan I remained a few days drying, 
before finally packing, my collections, when I returned to Singapore, reaching England 
once more in safety on the 8th August, 1888. 
A complete account of my collections, as far as they are yet worked out, will be found 
in the Appendix. 
I will now make a few remarks upon the altitudes estimated by me, which will be 
found to tally with those calculated by Mr. St. John and Mr. Little. The cave visited by 
