BY J. C. MOULTON. 
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1886. Unrest among the natives of that district prevented 
him getting further than Gaya on the first occasion and 
Tampassuk on the second. 
On January 25th, 1887, he left Labuan on his third 
attempt to reach the mountain. He followed the Tam¬ 
passuk route, using buffaloes as far as the junction of the 
Pangataran and Tampassuk, and thence on foot to 
Melangkap. From here he followed up the bed of the 
Pangataran, being told by the natives that Kinabalu 
could be ascended by this route. However, a hard day’s 
walk convinced him of the impossibility of this, so a 
hut was built in the jungle, where he spent a month 
collecting. 
During his stay here the Company’s Officer, Mr. R. M. 
Little, paid a brief visit to the mountain, as described under 
our last heading. Whitehead comments on the useless 
nature of these hurried visits, especially when they take 
place but once in five or six years. He writes thus: “I 
know as a fact that the very tribes which this Officer 
visited, and settled their tribe disputes, made a head-hunt¬ 
ing raid the following spring.” Nowadays the Company’s 
Government is very much more in touch with the natives, 
as the Officer in charge of a district is supposed to make a 
complete round of visits each month. In Whitehead’s time 
the Kinabalu district was managed from Gaya, a week’s 
journey in distance. But now that the districts are par¬ 
celled out into more manageable sub-districts, the natives 
live a more peaceful life under the restraining influence of 
a sound European government, which is more in evidence 
now than it was in Whitehead’s day. 
The greatest altitude reached by Whitehead during his 
stay on the Pangataran was 4800 ft. After a month in 
this camp he spent some three weeks at Melangkap, and 
returned again to the coast by the Tampassuk. He sum¬ 
marizes the results of this expedition as follows :— 
“ . . . eight weeks were spent in bird-collecting in the 
neighbourhood of Melangkap and amongst the mountain 
spurs. During this period we collected some three hundred 
birds, eighteen of which were new to science, and many 
others added to the ornis of Borneo for the first time. . . . 
Besides birds, I had several new mammals, including two 
new squirrels and several rats. There were also four new 
reptiles—a Draco , a snake, and two new frogs; and six 
new butterflies, four of which were Papilios .” 
He reached Labuan again on April 16th. 
