CHAPTER VII

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MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_Concluded_.

Stopped for a Day--Five Start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or India-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistakein the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers 154

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