Packing all our birds and other specimens. We had a small box of sulpher 
arid stone which the II eg oboes refused to carry. I told them that I 
would carry it myself and went on with the work .of packing up. 'Then 
none of them were looking I slipped it. into n sack and asked who wanted 
a light load, of course they all came running for it. some of the. Uau.le 
being ver;, heavy ones. 
The people are very superstitious; about • the mountain. One day when we 
were about one thin' of the way iuS> our guide refused to go-' any farther. 
It w-as beginlhg; to storm and ho-said'it was a v^urhing sign for no one 
•t-o 'go : up-"-any .farther. We soon over-fculed 'his objections however and went 
on. Some of them-claim that there is a man or devil lives on the 
mountain who has but one eye and that he sometlines kills and cat's people 
who come up after being warned not to do sc. 
We reached the coast on July 13th and finally got back to Davao on the 
lath. 
We collected op the trip sixty, different species of birds,213 in all; 
75 animals including alone eleven species of rats . 
Altogether it was the finest trip I have ever had the pleasure of being 
The Major Doctor says that he expects to go to Barneo in about three 
months,where he will make a trip up another unknovm mountain. 
If nothing happens I will go with him. 
V'V 
