Chapter XI

THE PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE DISTRICTS LYING
BETWEEN GAYA BAY AND THE TAMPASUK RIVER; WITH A GEOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH OF MALUDU BAY AND THE NORTH-EAST COAST OF BORNEO.

The Coast Line--The Rivers--The Bays--Gaya Bay--Abai--Character
of Interior Country--Plains--Hills--Kina Balu--First Ascent by
Mr. Low--Description of Summit--The Peaks--The Northern
Ranges--Steep Granite Slopes--The Spurs--The Main Spur--Interior
Country--Distant Mountains--Plain--Villages--The Lake--Vegetation
on Kina Balu--The Rivers--The Ananam--The Kabatuan--The
Mengkabong--The Tawaran--The Abai--The Tampasuk--Its
Interior--Political Geography--Inhabitants--The
Lanuns--The Bajus--Mahomedans--Appearance--Their
Women--Their Houses--Love of Cockfighting--Fine Breed of
Fowls--Other Inhabitants--The Ida’an--Their Houses--Their
Women--Tattooing--Comfortable House--Method of Government--No
Wars--Aborigines
Honest--Exceptions--Agriculture--Ploughing--Remnant of Chinese
Civilization--Tobacco--Cotton--Good Soil--Amount of
Population--Numerous and Extensive
Villages--The Tampasuk--The Tawaran--Mengkabong--Other
Districts--Enumeration--Manufactures--Lanun
Cloths--Trade--Difficult
Travelling--Languages--Geology--Sandstone--Greenstone--Climate
of Kina Balu temperate--Map--Addition--Maludu Bay--Western
Point--Western Shore--Mountains--Head of Bay--Population--Accounts
compared--Bengkoka--Minerals--Eastern
Point--Banguey--Difficult Navigation--Small
Rivers and Bays--Paitan--Sugut--Low Coast--Labuk
Bay--High Land--Benggaya--Labuk--Sandakan--Story
of the Atas Man--Kina Batangan--Cape
Unsang--Tungku--Population--The Ida’an--The Mahomedans 356

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

I. Kina Balu from the Lower Tampasuk _Frontispiece_

II. The Sea Dayaks _To face page_ 5

III. City of Brunei. Sunset „ 89

IV. The Land Dayaks „ 125

V. View from near the Rajah’s Cottage „ 156

VI. Nepenthes Rajah „ 317

VII. Kina Balu from the Pinokok Valley „ 318

VIII. Nepenthes Edwardsiana „ 327

IX. Nepenthes Lowii „ 336

X. Nepenthes Villosa „ 337

MAPS.

I. Map of North-West Coast of Borneo _To face page_ 1

II. Map of Districts near Kina Balu „ 230

ERRATA.

Page 317, line 9, _for_ “four,” _read_ “fourteen.”
„ „ 17, _for_ “was,” _read_ “that of the others is.”

_London. Day & Son, Lith^{rs}. to the Queen_]

LIFE IN THE

FORESTS OF THE FAR EAST.