166 ACCOUNT OF EXPEDITIONS TO MT. KINABALU. 
up to their new camp, of which Mr. Bunbury writes : 
“ The place where we camped was a patch of heather over¬ 
looking Kanau plain, and we named it Saiat Saiat (Dusun 
for heather).” The altitude is noted as about 12,000 ft. 
This is the highest point that any Europeans have ever 
camped on the mountain. The party stayed there five 
nights, undergoing no light hardships owing to the raw 
weather and their exposed position. Mr. Bunbury notes 
that, in addition to the four Europeans, ten natives re¬ 
mained with the party at this camp ; and he pays a tribute 
to the plucky way in which the Dusuns stuck to it “ in 
spite of the cold and rain and sore feet caused by the con¬ 
stant climbing over rough wet rock.” One of these— 
Umpoh—son of a former chief, told me, on my visit three 
years later, that Lieut. Harvey spent one night just below 
Low’s Peak, altitude about 13,000 ft. This is not mentioned 
in Mr. Bunbury’s account. 
The five days were spent in careful survey work, result¬ 
ing in the map of the summit plateau, which Capt. Lear- 
month has kindly allowed me to reproduce in this paper. 
As this is the only expedition that seems to have been 
properly equipped with surveying instruments, we may 
accept Capt. Learmonth’s altitudes in preference to those 
of former writers. He makes the highest point (Low’s 
Peak) 18,455 ft., i. e. some 200 ft. less than Sir E. Belcher 
made it seventy years ago. Altitudes of other peaks are 
given in the map. 
Mr. Bunbury notes that they were unable to find a way 
round the head of Low’s Gully which would lead to the 
unexplored north-eastern half of the summit. 
The party returned to Pakka on the 24th, to Lobang 
next day, and arrived at Kiau on the 26th. The return to 
the coast was accomplished via Tenom, the journey to that 
place occupying seven days. 
Mention is made of a bottle found on the summit con¬ 
taining a document (apparently undated), on which a few 
lines of verse were written with the “ Compliments of 
George H. Goss, Manhattan Hotel, New York, and Douglas 
Dodge, Simsbury, Connecticut.” 
I can find no other mention of these two names. 
1910. The British North Borneo Herald . August 16th, 
1910, pp. 146, 147. “ An Unofficial Account of an Ascent 
of Kinabalu.” By “ Insaf.” 
This is an amusing account of the same expedition just 
