152 ACCOUNT OF EXPEDITIONS TO MT. KINABALU. 
Messrs. Low & St. John’s papers—the former’s in a bottle, 
the latter’s in a tin. The writing was partly indecipher¬ 
able. Mr. Little confesses to feeling vexed with Limbawan 
for removing these historic papers, but he does not confess 
to having returned them. 
On March 20th he left Iiiau and followed the Tampassuk 
route as far as Ghinambor, and thence to Tuaran via 
Madang village. 
[1888. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. 
Yol. x. No. 8. 1888. Pp. 184-146. “ Summary of Explora¬ 
tions in British North Borneo.” By Admiral A. 0. Mayne, 
C.B., M.P. 
The explorations discussed in this article date from 1878 
to 1887. This period only includes one ascent of Kinabalu, 
namely, that of R. M. Little, whose account has just been 
dealt with above. The following passage from Admiral 
Mayne’s summary may be noted : “ The latest journey of 
which we have the record was made last year by Mr. 
Little, the Assistant-Resident before-mentioned, who as¬ 
cended our highest mountain, the Kinabalu, the elevation 
of which, as marked on the map, he considers 2000 ft. too 
much, though he claims to have reached a higher peak 
than either Low or St. John. Its position and altitude 
were fixed by the late Sir Edward Belcher when in H.M.S. 
‘ Samarang ’; and I doubt the propriety of seriously sug¬ 
gesting a reduction of 2000 ft. from his trigonometric deter¬ 
mination on the unchecked authority of a small pocket 
aneroid not in its first youth.” 
This summary has some interesting notes on the sup¬ 
posed existence of a Kinabalu Lake, to which we shall 
refer later.] 
1887. Exploration of Mount Kina Balu , North Borneo . 
By John Whitehead. 1893. Pp. 1-317, with plates and 
woodcuts. (Chapter vi. contains an account of Whitehead’s 
first successful expedition.) 
To the author of this book belongs the credit of the first 
extensive exploration of the mountain, and to him we owe 
our first real insight into its zoological treasures. 
He spent over three years in the East, leaving England 
in October, 1884, and after visits to Malacca, Java, Pala¬ 
wan, and North Borneo, returned again in April, 1888. 
During this period he made two unsuccessful attempts to 
reach Kinabalu, the first in 1885 and the next early in 
