154 ACCOUNT OF EXPEDITIONS TO MT. KINABALU. 
1888. Chapters viii. and ix. are devoted to Whitehead’s 
next visit to the mountain. 
He left Labuan on his fourth and last expedition to 
Kinabalu in December, 1887. After the usual delays in 
getting carriers together, he left Abai on January 3rd, 
1888, having engaged Illanuns and buffaloes to transport 
him to Melangkap. Their first day’s journey brought 
them to Ghinambor, the second to Teung, a village on the 
right bank of the Pangataran, to which they had strayed in 
error. After a day’s delay they did the two hours’ journey 
to Melangkap (given as 1300 ft.). Whitehead spent a fort¬ 
night collecting here again, and then journeyed down-river 
to Tambatuan, and thence to Koung, where he stayed the 
night. Next day he reached Kiau, putting-up in the house 
of Kabong, one of the headmen of the village, a position 
which was shared by Kurou, who acted as guide for Burbidge 
ten years before. Whitehead notes that this man remem¬ 
bered Low and St. John, and “ speaks of these two gentle¬ 
men as the only two white men he ever took a fancy to.” 
On January 25th they left Kiau for the ascent, accom¬ 
panied by Kurou, “ bringing with him his son—a pre¬ 
cocious boy of ten years old with a loud voice and a huge 
mouth,” who developed later into Sumpot, taker of two 
heads, chief of Kiau and guide with me in 1913. 
They followed the usual course of the Tampassuk or 
Kadamaian Biver—to give it the proper name for this 
upper portion of the Tampassuk—and reached Lobong 
(given as 4800 ft.), which was christened by Burbidge as 
“ Sunless hole.” Whitehead mentions the slender orange 
tree in front of the big overhanging rock, which the natives 
told him had been planted by Low. Whitehead laments 
the miserable damp of this place, where he spent five 
days. The excessively steep sides to this narrow gorge 
make it very difficult to get about for any collecting. 
During my stay there in September, 1913, I had the only 
flat bit of ground cleared just in front of the rock; this let 
in the sun and improved the place considerably. Bird and 
insect life were then more in evidence. 
On January 31st Whitehead moved up to Kamborangah, 
where he stayed until March 3rd, suffering much from ill- 
health and exposure to the raw climate, but doggedly per¬ 
severing all the time in his collecting work. The results 
amply repaid him, as he obtained no less than ten new 
species of birds, four of which represented new genera, 
besides a new rat and a new frog. 
