BY J. C. MOULTON. 
155 
During his stay in this bleak spot Whitehead made 
one excursion to the summit, leaving Kamborangah on 
February 10th, and sleeping the night at the Pakka cave. 
Accompanied by some Dusuns of Kiau he climbed to the 
summit the following day, reaching Low’s Peak, which he 
made out 18,525 ft. Whitehead is the first to note that 
this is higher than St. John’s Peak—a lucky guess on his 
part, although he writes “ decidedly higher,” as the differ¬ 
ence is only 15 ft. He left a note in a bottle giving the 
names of his little party, the date, temperature (fifty-nine 
degrees), and time (11 a.m.). This he buried beneath some 
stones on the summit. Subsequent visitors do not men¬ 
tion finding it. After visiting Low’s Gully he returned to 
Pakka, and thence to his camp at Kamborangah. During 
his month there the temperature at night varied from 
forty-two degrees to fifty-two degrees; in the day from 
sixty degrees to seventy degrees Fahr. The height of 
Kamborangah is given as 7850 ft. 
Whitehead reached Kiau in two days, and then went on 
to Melangkap, a journey which he accomplished in six 
hours, thanks to “the splendid carrying powers of the 
Kiau Dusuns.” During his absence on the mountain a 
native collector had been busy at Kiau and two more at 
Melangkap, who all helped to swell the size of his 
collections. 
On March 10th he returned to Kiau again, and on the 
12th went down to the Kinokok valley, wdiere he spent four 
weeks encamped at 8650 ft. The greatest find here was 
the beautiful new Trogon, afterwards named by Dr. Sharpe 
Pyrotrogon ivhiteheadi in honour of its discoverer. On 
April 9th he returned again to Kiau and thence to 
Melangkap. He gives a little description of Kabong’s 
house at Kiau :—“ This house is quite a zoo ; below a herd 
of pigs grunt and squeak, dogs fight and snarl, cocks crow, 
hens cackle; above babies squealing, men and women 
laughing and talking. Combine all these sounds and you 
get an idea of the babel in a Dusun house.” To complete 
the picture he might have suggested that most of the 
above members of the animal kingdom, when living in a 
confined space, are liable to produce a variety of smells not 
altogether attractive to the human nasal organ. Then 
there is the smoke of the house to fill the eyes and throat 
of the visitors: and last of all the bed-bug, known to the 
Dusun as “ wongking,” which effectively prevents any 
thought of sleep if all the other above-mentioned “ in- 
