146 ACCOUNT OF EXPEDITIONS TO MT. KINABALU. 
Lobong, or a large rock between Minitindok and the mouth 
of the Kalupis). Next day they started at seven, noted the 
first Nepenthes lowi at about 5000 ft., further up Nepenthes 
rajah, and (( N. edwardsiana was seen in two places. . . . 
Highest of all in the great Nepenthes zone came N. villosa, 
a beautiful plant, having rounded pitchers of the softest 
pink colour, with a crimson frilled orifice similar to that 
of N. edwardsiana. ... To see these plants in all their 
health and vigour was a sensation I shall never forget— 
one of those which we experience but rarely in a whole 
lifetime ! ” 
They reached the cave, noted as 9000 ft., about 3 o’clock, 
and Burbidge then goes on to say: “ The next difficulty 
was to obtain water, since the men we had sent to search 
for it returned empty-handed, having failed to find any.” 
There is rather a mystery about this cave, as the ordinary 
route leads through Kamborangah (7200 ft.), where there 
is no cave, to Pakka (about 10,000 ft.), where the cave, or 
overhanging rock, is on the edge of a rushing torrent. 
Burbidge states that his guides “ slept under a rock a little 
further on * and higher up the mountain side, and they 
found a stream from which good water was procured.” 
They did not ascend beyond the top of the great ridge 
which leads to the foot of the granite cap, and after two 
nights in their cave descended to Kiau. The botanical 
pursuits of the two Europeans proved too much for the 
Dusuns’ patience, so the Dusuns went on ahead ; and the 
two botanists, left to themselves, lost the path and spent 
the night in the jungle. They reached Kiau safely next day, 
and after a two-days’ excursion to Marei Parei, where they 
noted Nepenthes edwardsiana and N. rajah (the latter in 
abundance), they left Kiau for the coast. Following the 
same route they reached Gaya in six days and Labuan 
two days after. Burbidge writes that “ after reaching 
Labuan both Mr. Yeitch and myself had bad attacks of 
intermittent fever, the result of chilling exposure in wet 
clothes and ill-cooked food, accompanied by more than 
ordinary exertions.” 
1878. Burbidge made a second expedition to Kinabalu 
in August, 1878. Accompanied by a man called Smith, 
lent by the manager of the Labuan coal mine, .he left 
Labuan on July 31st, and after sundry mishaps with the 
* In his second expedition described as a quarter of a mile further on. 
