Chapter VII: 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