BY J. C. MOULTON. 
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small sailing boat reached the Tampassuk river on 
August 5th, and pulled five hours up to the house of a Mr. 
Pretyman. From here buffaloes were used to transport 
them the seven days’ journey to Kiau; en route they passed 
through the villages of Ghinambor, Buramhangan, Sine- 
roup, Kambatuan, and Koung. The bad path and heavy 
fresh in the river delayed them. 
Burbidge notes that Lemoung, the head-man of Kiau, 
had died since his last visit, and that his son Boloung had 
taken his place. Lemoung was one of St. John’s guides 
twenty years before. His son and Kurou—another guide— 
escorted Burbidge on this trip. As before, two days were 
spent in the ascent, and apparently the same cave was 
used again at 9000 ft. On their arrival “ one Dusun 
fetched us some water from a stream half a mile off.” He 
also notes that they “ had a view of the great waterfall on 
the bare granite rocks of the mountain opposite ” ; and 
that on leaving the place he carved his initials on the soft 
red sandstone wall of their cave. 
Miss Gibbs states that “ in the centre of the sheltered 
small forest above and below Pakapaka were huge red 
sandstone blocks,” and she suggests that it was here 
Burbidge camped. 
At 8000 ft. he writes : “ Casuarina trees are commonly 
met with.” Miss Gibbs, in comment, notes “ the melan¬ 
choly-looking Lycopodium casuarinoides —the only approach 
to anything like a Casuarina seen anywhere, though pre¬ 
vious writers all record this unmistakable genus both here 
and on the Maraiparai.” 
They spent three days collecting plants round their 
camp, ascending only to 10,700 ft., as the summit was not 
the object of their expedition. 
Of the four big Nepenthes, Burbidge remarks that 
N. rajah and N. villosa frequent open mossy patches, but 
that N. lowi and N. edwardsiana appear never to reach so 
high an altitude as the former two. 
On August 18th they commenced the descent. Collect¬ 
ing as they went, they reached Kiau at 4 p.m. 
The journey from Pakka or neighbourhood to Kiau is a 
good day’s walk for a native unencumbered ; but I should 
imagine quite impossible for a European to accomplish if 
he spent much time collecting on the way, besides loading 
himself with plants so that he had “ both arms full besides 
the basket on his back,” as Burbidge describes his arrival 
at Kiau. It seems more probable that they followed a 
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