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JOURNAL
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of the
Dye 1 Asiatic Society
-.- December, I9I1
ne SINGAPORE:
__-* PRINTED AT THE METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE
| ' 1911. .
we A ,
Table of Contents.
Obituary.
Barretto de Resende’s Account of pialeces by W. Coe
Maxwell zis fess ne nae
Singapore old Straits and New Harbour, ee the Hon. Warren
D. Barnes :
An old Royal Cemetery at Pekan in Pahang, with three
plates, by the Hon. Warren D. Barnes
An old Tombstone in Pahang, with two NTE Be the Hon.
Warren D. Barnes
A Trip to a Source of the Sarawak River and pea one
Mountains, by C. J. Brooks --. : :
The Gymnosperms of the ee: Foun, bs H. N. Ridlet uh
COM.G., F.RS.
Head Pressing amongst the Milanos of Sarawak, with two
plates, by John Hewitt, B.A., and A. HE. Lawrence, ...
A List of the Butterflies of Borneo with Descriptions of New
Species, with one Elyie, Ere dle (Ge me GaSe
JED Geiser Aa se
Page.
69
73
Obituary.
The Society much regrets to have to record the death of one
- of their most valued and promiment members, the Hon’ble Warren
D. Barnes, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, which took place in
Hongkong on October 28th of this year (1911).
Mr. Barnes, born in 1865, was educated at King’s College
School and Pembroke College Cambridge. He joined the S. S.
Government service in 1888, held various appointments, chiefly in
connection with the Chinese Protectorates in this Colony and the
F. M. S., became Secretary for Chinese Affairs for the S. 8. and
F. M.S. in 1904, Resident of Pahang in 1910, and then left here
early this year on his appointment as Colonial Secretary in
Hongkong.
Mr. Barnes was elected a member of the Society in 1893
when he was still in Penang, and his chief activity in connection
with it was during the years 1908 and 1909 when he was Vice-
President for Singapore, and in 1910, as Vice-President for the
F.M.S. It was due to his initiative and supervision that a
Catalogue of the Society’s Library was compiled and printed in
1909, and he also undertook the laborious task of compiling a most
useful index volume to the Society’s Journal Nos. 1-50.
His own contributions to former Nos. of the Journal are:
A Trip to Gunong Benom, Pahang, No. XXXIX, pp. 1-10
Schmidt’s Sakai and Semang Languages, No. XXXIX,
pp. 38-45
Kern’s Sanskrit Inscriptions, Malay Peninsula, No. XLIX,
pp. 95-101.
His three papers in the present Journal, viz.
‘Singapore Old Straits and New Harbour’”’
“An Old Royal Cemetery at Pekan in Pahang,” and
“ An Old Tombstone in Pahang”
were printed off some weeks before his death.
R. HANITSCH,
Actg. Hon. Secretary.
Barretto de Resende’s Account of Malacca.
By W. GEORGE MAXWELL.
Manuscript No. 197 of the Sloane collection of manuscripts in
the British Museum is Barretto de Resende’s © Livro do Estado da
India Oriental.’ The manuscript, which has not yet been published
or translated, is divided into three parts. The first contains port-
raits of all the Portuguese Viceroys from Franciso de Almeyda, the
first Viceroy, to Dom Miguel de Noronha, the 44th, in A.D. 1634,
with an account of the Government of each Viceroy.
The second part contains © the plans of the fortresses from the
“Cape of Good Hope to the fort Chaul, with a detailed
“description of all that is to be found in the said fortresses,
‘the receipts and expenses of each and everything that concerns
“them.” In this part are a plan and description of the fortress
of Sofala, a map and description of the rivers of Cuama, a
description of the Islands of Angoxa; plans and descriptions of
the fortresses of Mozambique, Mombassa, Curiate,“ Mascate,
Matara, Sibo,$ Borca,$ Soar, Quelba,$ Corfacam, Libidia, MadaS,
Dubo-doba and Mocomlim; a plan of the fortress of Ormus,“ a
‘description of the Congo; plans and descriptions of Bassora*, and
the Island of Baren ; descriptions of Sinde* and the “ Kingdom of
Cacha and Magana;” plans and descriptions of the fortress of Dio,
Suratte, Damas, Samgens, Danu, Trapor, Maim, Agassym, Manora,
Mount Aserim and Bassaym; descriptions of the Fort of Saybana,
the Fort of Corangangens, Tana and its bastions, Mombayon and
Caranya, and plans and descriptions of the mole of Chaul and of
Chaul.*
The third part of the book contains “the plans of all the
“ fortresses from Goa to China with a similar description and
“contains also plans of other fortresses not belonging to the
“ State, they being included as being situated on these coasts and
“being of interest.” In this part are plans and descriptions
of “the lands and forts of Bardes’’,-Goa, Rachol, Salsete, Onor,
Cambolim, Barselor, Mangallor, Cananor, Cunhalle and Cranganor;
a description of Balliporto; plans and descriptions of Cochim,
Conlam, Negapatam, San Thome, © the Dutch town of Palleacate”’,
Pulikat and the Island and Fortress of Manar; a plan of the island
of Ceylon; plans and descriptions of the fortress of Jafnapatam,
Colombo, Calleture, Negumbo, Gualle, Batecalou and. Triquilimale ;
* The accounts of these places will be found (in Portuguese) in the
appendix to the fourth volume of the Hakluyt Society’s Commentaries of Afonso
Dalboquerque.
§ Notes on the plans of these fortresses state that they were demolished
and abandoned as being of no use after the book was written.
Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc., No. 60. I9II
2 BARRETTO DE RESENDE’S ACCOUNT OF MALACCA.
a plan of the Maldive Islands; a plan and description of the fortress
of Malacca: plans of the isle and fort of Achem, © the Dutch fortress
of Jacatra’’ (the site of the present city of Batavia ), the Malucco
Islands and the Banda Islands; plans and descriptions of the Solor
Islands and the town of Machao; and plans of the Island of
Formosa and the Island and Province of Manilla. It concludes
with notes on the size and extent of various islands.
The manuscript, which consists of 412 folios, sets forth on its
first page that it was written by “Captain Pedro Barretto de
Resende, Professed Knight of the Order of St. Benedict of Avis”,
native of Pavia, in the year 1646.”
Writing in Kedah, J regret to be unable to obtain any account
of de Resende’s life.
With two or three exceptions the plans are all coloured, and
in addition to them the manuscript contains eight pen and ink
charts signed :—
“Petrus Berthelot primum cosmographicum indicorum imper-
ium faciebat anno domini 1635.”
Berthelot was born in Honfleur in A.D. 1600. He was for
some time a pirate, and then became a barefocted Carmelite monk.
He went to Goa, and in 1629 was appointed first pilot to a Portu-
guese fleet sent to defend Malacca against the attack of the King
of Acheen.
He greatly distinguished himself and was given the appoint-
ment of Cosmographer Royal of the Indies. After this he made
a number of voyages and prepared charts of the coasts he yisited.s
He fell in a massacre, in which the Portuguese anbassador was
also killed, at Acheen on the 27th November 1638.*
It would appear that the date, A.D. 1646, given by de Resende
to his work is that of a year some years after the date of its having
been written. The list of viceroys only goes down to 1638.
Malacca is written of as a Portuguese possession, whereas it had
been surrendered to the Dutch on the 14th January, 1641. There
are notes on some of the plans ( referred to above ) to say that the
fortresses of which plans are given had been demolished and
abandoned “after the book was written.” Lastly Berthelot the
cosmographer was murdered in A.D. 1635, or 1638. The pro-
babilities would therefore appear to be that the account of Malacea
was written at least before 1638.
* A military order of Cistercians in Portugal instituted by King Alphonso I,
in the middle of the twelfth century, to commemorate the capture of Evora
from the Moors.
§ An account of Berthelot will be found in the Manuel de Bibliographie
Normande—Vol I p. 336. (Frére, Paris 1850—1860); cited in the commen-
taries of Afonso Dalboquerque ( Hakluyt Society ) Vol 2—Introduction page
CXXI.
* The date of this Massacre is given in Marsden’s History of Sumatra
(page 362) as 1635. 1638 is perhaps a misprint in the Hakluyt Society’s
yolume,
Jour. Straits Branch
BARRETTO DE RESENDE’S ACCOUNT OF MALACCA. 3
Of the plans, charts, and portraits with which Barretto de
Resende’s manuscript is embellished, six have been reproduced in
the Hakluyt Society’s edition of the Commentaries of Afonso
Dalboquerque. They are :—
The map of Arabia in Vol: ky p: 80
The plan of Ormus | 55 jee dll Ue
The portrait of D. Francisco
Dalmeida So HUME Ton aks)
The chart of Goa 55 p. 88
The plan of the fortress
of Malacca arene Loe
The portrait of Diogo Lopes
de Sequeira fe p. 254
Gohindo de Eredia’s account of Malaceca—the Declaracam de
Malaca e India Meridional dated A.D. 1613, and translated into
French by Janssen in A.D. 1882, is the best known Portuguese
work on Malacca, and as a comparison of his account and as
Resende’s account is interesting, give in an appendix a translation
of de Eredia’s first and fifteenth chapters entitled “ Regarding the
city of Malaca”’ and “ Regarding Gunoledam” respectively. I
have translated them from Janssen’s French, and not from the
original Portuguese.
Description of the Fortress of Malacca.
The fortress of Malacca is situated on the east coast of Jun-
tana ~ between the River Panagim * and Muar 2° 20' N. lat.
It was conquered and founded by the great Alfonso de
Albuquerque on the 15th of August 1511. At the present day it
is a city, containing a fortress, and surrounded by a stone and
mortar wall twenty feet high, twelve palms thick at the foot and
seven at the top. |
It contains six bastions, including the breastwork (couraca ),
each one called by the name written on it. All the walls have
parapets, and each bastion occupies a space of twenty paces and
the one named Madre de Deos double that space, so that it can
scarcely be defended and covered by the other bastions. The
circumference of the whole wall is five hundred and twelve paces,
including the space occupied by the bastions. From the _ bastion
de Ospital to that of St. Dominic there is a counterscarp, as also
from that of Sanctiago to Madre de Deos, with a ditch in the
centre, the whole being fourteen palms wide. The bastions contain
forty-one pieces of artillery of twelve to forty-four pounds iron
shot. All are of bronze, with the exception of nine iron pieces, and
there is sufficient powder and ammunition in His Majesty’s
magazines for their supply. Twelve of the big pieces lie unmounted
on the plain, destined for the fort in process of building on the
Ilha das Naos, and some ‘of the remainder are broken.
R. A, Soc., No. 60, I911
folio 383.
folio 383d.
4 BARRETTO DE RESENDE’S ACCOUNT OF MALACCA,
There are in the town two hundred and fifty married whites *
who would possess two thousand black captives of different races,
all competent to carry arms, of which there is a sufficient supply ;
as rarely is a married man without his supply of lances, and six,
eight or ten muskets or flintlocks, with their aramunition. How-
ever of these two hundred and fifty married white men, one hundred
live on the other side of the river which gives its name to the land
of Malacca.
With regard to the small space within the walls it is almost
entirely covered by three convents, that of St. Paul, St. Dominic
and St. Augustin; and the aforesaid married couples live in straw
huts, ‘ so that there is a great risk of fire. There are in this place
a number of fruit gardens and orchards of varied fruits. A number
of married native Christians live outside Malacca, they are all very
good soldiers, and use all kinds of arms, especially muskets, in the
use.of which they are very skilful. In times of war they are very
ready and active: the majority of them seek a means of livelihood.
They are so hasty, for very little they will run a man through the
belly with a cris, and there is little, if any, cure for the | wound,
since these weapons, apart from being generally poisoned, ° are so
fashioned, in an undulating shape, as to cause great injury: if the
weapon is poisoned, it is only necessary to draw blood to cause
death.
The fort within this town where the Captain resides is five
stories high; the captain lives on the second storey, which is square
like the tower, each wall being twenty paces wide. The other
apartments are set apart for the Captain’s guests, and for storing
ammunition. On the first floor four thousand candys” of rice were
stored, but are no longer there. It is surrounded by a wall of the
same height and thickness as that of the town. The Captain’s
family lives in houses on a level with the second storey of the
tower. The only artillery is that of the bastions already referred
to. The town receives a duty of one per cent applicable to the
works of fortification, of which those of the wall are now being
completed.
The king of the interior of that country where the fortress of
Malacea is situated is the King of Jor’ and Pam, a great friend
of the Portuguese. He is lord of more than one hundred leagues
of coast, but his lands do not extend far inland: at sea he also
possesses a chain of islands situated in this vicinity, the majority
being inhabited. The people are Malays, and profess the creed
of the Moors. They can put twelve thousand men cf arms into the
field; they fight with artillery, muskets, assegays,’ saligas,° or
darts of fire-hardened wood, swords, shields, bows and arrows,
crises beforementioned, and sumpitans’ or very small poisoned
arrows, which they blow through tubes, and if they draw blood
death will ensue. There is no Christain Settlement in their lands.
Up the river beyond Malacca, the married men own many very
fertile orchards, with a great variety of fruit, as the land produces
Jour. Straits Branch
BARRETTO DE RESENDE’S ACCOUNT OF MALACCA, 5
very good fruit of many kinds, besides all those to be found in
Tndia, and it is remarkable that the town, though nearly below the
line, has a salubrious climate’ and excellent water, the soil being
fertile for any seed that is sown: it rains nearly every day and
night. The married men of Malacca possess many leagues of land,
extending on one side as far as Cape Rachado and on the other to
River Fermozo”™ and also many leagues in the interior, but all
uninhabited with none to cultivate the land, though it is fertile and
would yield much rice. Inland the land borders on that of the
Manameabos, ” Moors of a land called Rindo, ® vassals of the King
of Pam, and, close by live five or six thousand of the same
Manameabo Moors, vassals of His Majesty, under the Government
of a Portuguese married man of Malacca called Tamungam,”™ an
office conferred by the Viceroy. To him they owe obedience and
should one of these Moors die without heirs, the said Tamungam
inherits his property, and if there are heirs he makes an agreement
with them and receives ten per cent upon such goods as he thinks
fit. At the present day a Portuguese holds the office for life.
These Moors cultivate extensive lands by which they maintain
themselves. They especially cultivate the betre.*" They purchase
tin’ from the inhabitants of the interior and bring it to Malacca.
The river of this city, and the port of Malacca is of fresh water and
is a stone’s throw in width. At low tide the bar has a palm and
a half of water, and in conjunction with the fresh water there is
four fingers of water only, which barely covers the mud which
forms the bottom. At high water there is one fathom four palms
of fresh water and five or six palms of salt. At a little distance
from its mouth the river becomes narrower, and is three or four
fathoms deep; and in some parts there is always one fathom
whether at high or low tide. There are many large carnivorous
alligators, for which reason, and because of the mud, it cannot be
forded. Along the river and inland there are many orchards
belonging both to the married Portuguese and the natives: the men
live here with their families cultivating the land to great profit.
There are many tigers” which before they were exorcised by a
bishop were very fierce, but are now less so. All these married
men have their weapons. Half a league up the river a log of wood
is thrown across the water at night, the chain being padlocked to
a sentry-box where stands a Portuguese provided by the city, which
pays him six cruzados” a month. This is to prevent any forbidden
merchandise being smuggled out or in from the large vessels lying
at anchor beyond the Ilha das Naos. For the same reason, order
has been given to build a fort on the said-island, which does not
actually face the city, but lies a little lower down at a distance of
one thousand five hundred paces from it. The channel in between
is small and not navigable to large ships at low tide: the
water is very shallow, and the bottom is of mud. Further out to
sea, lies another sand-bank, and, between it and the island, is a
channel six fathoms deep. The island is nearly the shape of a
RwA; Soc., No. 60, £911.
folio 384.
folio 384).
6 BARRETTO DE RESENDE’S ACCOUNT OF MALACCA.
horseshoe, and is sixty bracas in circumference, its length is one
and a half times greater than its width. It contains a mountain
four or five bracas in height.
The fort which is being built here, for the foundations are
already laid, is small, being thirty paces square. It is to be square,
to allow space for the artillery to be separated. Its purpose is to
defend the large vessels which cannot lie under the artillery of the
fortress. As yet only the foundations are laid; the materials are
being gathered together at Malacca so that the whole building may
be finished at once, because if it were built gradually it might fall
into the hands of the enemy and, once occupied by them, it would
be a great danger to Malacca.
The bridge shown in the plan has two abutments, each one
being two and a half bracas in height, and the same in length and
very narrow, so that there is no danger, as has been suggested, of
them affording the means of an attack upon Malacca. The bridge
above them is composed of large strong planks, which can be cut
down when necessary.
Fifty to sixty soldiers are drawn from the garrison every year
to equip a fleet of three, four or five jaleas” to cruise along the
coast. They set sail in May for Pulopinam™ or whatever place is
decided on, to await the ships from Goa, to inform them of the
position of the enemy and to assist in discharging the cargo. In
September they go to Junsalam™ to await those from Negapatam,
St. Thome and also from Goa; and in December they go to the
Straits of Singapore to await those from China and Manila for the
same purpose.
The Captain Major receives an allowance of one hundred
cruzados, but the soldiers and the captains of the jaleas receive
nothing whatever beyond their food; but are quite satisfied. The
captainship of these jaleas is a much sought after and coveted post,
because in the many losses caused to our ships, from all parts,
by the Dutch, the jaleas get the best of the booty: but the worst
is that they do not return it to the owners. This applies especially
to the ships from China, because of the great value of the salvage,
being gold, silks and musk. Neither can it be denied that these
jaleas save many vessels, and much merchandise; but it is very ~
necessary that they should be in the hands of persons very disinter-
ested and conscientious, a virtue rare among soldiers. The sailors
are the chief expense of these jaleas, as they carry over fifty, about
twenty-three being required to take the oars on either side, besides
the two at the helm and stern, the extra men being required to
replace those who may fall sick or become fatigued. Hach sailor
receives one para” of rice, a little over an alqueric,”® per month,
and a cruzado of four hundred and sixty reis the whole time that
they are on board. A jalea is the swiftest vessel at sea, being
about fifty palms long, and four palms deep, and rowed by forty-six
oars. They are of great use in carrying news and relief, and can
evade the enemy; so that the more there are the better service
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they may render. Other vessels are sent out from Malacca with
advices such as bantims,”’ very much smaller than jaleas the only |
expense being, as aforesaid, the sailors, and the provisions for the
soldiers. The latter, who receive their pay on shore at rare
intervals, embark with much good will; because, at times, when
they put in at a certain place such as Pera, and other ports, they
can earn a quartel” from the merchants. They are not discharged
from the fortress when they thus go to sea, neither do they lose
their pay; but, while away from the fortress, they are masters.
But for this no soldier would remain in the fortress for the King’s
pay is very small and the country very dear. Even as it is, it is a
source of wonder that any soldiers are found who will remain
there.
One thing may be said of the married women of this land
which is greatly to their credit; and that is that there is not one
who would ask for any help from her husband towards the expenses
of the home, which really is their support; for they themselves
supply the household money by making eatables which are usually
sold in the streets by their slaves, and their houses take the place
of inns in the town. Their daughters are brought up from child-
hood to the same custom, so that there is no girl who has not her
own fortune put aside in this way in her father’s house; and thus,
as in India, girls are not afraid of their husbands not being able to
support them; for this reason too persons of much merit are
satisfied with a small dowry. This custom has greater effect in
this country than in India.
As regards the merchandise in the fortress of Malacca very
little is of the country, and the greater part is imported. The chief
products of the country are tin, some bezoar stones,” porcupine
quills” and wild agallochium.”
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one, you will see in front of you on the other side a cape with
a little red hill. You will do well then to bear over a little to
that side until you have passed the first island [ Pulau Pesek |
between which and the second [Pulau Ayer Limau] lies a
shoal which can be seen sometimes at low water and which
stretches half way across the channel; however you will be
careful always to have the lead in your hands to know where
you are. Having come close to this cape and hill bear off again
to the right, for this is the only shoal between these islands, and
in this way you will carry on to the East for about half a league
with this same depth of eight or nine fathoms. Thence this
range of Islands along which you are sailing trends to the
South-east and immediately afterwards you will see a little
further on to the right of these islands a round island stretching
a little behind from one to another, {the French is not clear|
you will carry on along this leaving it on your right. You will
always have eight or ten fathoms with a muddy bottom. On
the left hand, that is on the North side, the land has many bays
among them a large one which trends to the South. On this
South side is another round island which you will leave on the
same side. You will beware of this North side as it is full of
shoals and will hold on your course on the other or right hand
side. When you come close to the above mentioned small
round island on the right hand side you will see straight in
front of you, that is to say, at the end of the range of islands
along which your are coasting, another small low island with a
few trees and a shore of white sand |? Cyrene shoal]; this is
directly opposite the East and West straits of Singapore. You
will bear down on this island and when you come close to it
you will see the straits, towards which you will steer keeping
off a little both to avoid the shoals and reefs to the North and
also so as not to be carried by the tide to the South side of the
entrance of the straits. On the North is a sandy beach | Pasir
Panjang] about a cannon-shot long having a kind of bay at the
end of it where fresh water can be got. The whole way along
this beach you will find a good bottom fit for anchoring if
necessary. Coming up to the beach you will find currents
which will earry you down to the entrance of the straits but
you can avoid them by keeping off. You will do well also not
to pass the end of these straits on the North side as there are
reefs and banks there.
“The entrance of the straits is about a stone’s throw across
between two high mountains and runs a cannon-shot length to
the East. The least depth in the straits is four and a half
fathoms. At the entrance at the foot of the Northern mountain
is a rock which looks like a pillar. It is commonly known as
Varella del China [Lot’s wife]. A little further on in the
straits and on the South side is a bay in the middle of which is
another rock below water and a shoal with reaches from this
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 191].
28 SINGAPORE OLD STRAITS AND NEW HARBOUR.
rock to the middle of the channel. About an arquebus-shot
further on, on the same South side, is a passage reaching to the
sea on the other side thus making an Island [Sélat Singkeh].
It is too shallow for any but small craft (petites fustes) to use.
In the middle of the bay opposite the opening of this passage is
a rock or rocky shoal two fathoms under water which reaches
a little out of the bay to the middle of the channel. When
you are up to this bay you see a straight hill which forms a
cape at the end of the straits. Having doubled this cape you
gee a red hill near which the bottom is good and clean, after
which the land trends to the South-east.
On the North side of the straits there are in all three bays,
of which the first two are small and the third, which lies opposite
the cape of the red hill at the end of the straits, large. This
third bay has a bank of rock which is uncovered at low water
and reaches from headland to headland; care must be taken of
it. Everything on the North side outside this bay is through-
out the channel clean and good from one headland to the other.
At the exit from the passage are two reefs, one of which is .
opposite to the mouth of it about a cannon-shot away (a la
portée d’une piéce de fer) running North and South; the other |
is to the South of the mouth and a short cannon-shot away (a la
portée d’un canon mediocre) stretching to the Hast so that the |
;
two make a cross; both can be seen at low water. The
channel between them has barely four fathoms with a muddy
bottom ; outside the channel the bottom is sand whereby many
ships have come in danger of shipwreck. If therefore you have
to go that way take care when leaving the channel not to steer
due Kast, and if you wish to anchor bear to the South, for if
you stop in the current of the straits you may lose an anchor
or two through the violence of the ship’s motion.
When clear of the straits bear to your right along the land
but not coming closer to it than a depth of four fathoms, and
when you have passed the first beach, together with a hill and
a rock at the end of it, and a bay which lies opposite the hill,
and have reached half way to another hill, which is at the other
end of the above mentioned passage from the straits, you
should then shape your course to the East, not coming within
four fathoms on either side for fear of falling on banks and
shoals. The bottom of the channel is muddy. You must
always have the lead in your hand until you have got a greater
depth, which you will soon do. It is safest to use a small boat
to sound the channel. When you have reached twelve or
fifteen fathoms beware of the South side until you are a league
to the East of the Straits, for from fifteen fathoms you would
get ten and then would find yourself on some shoal, for there
- are many shoals and sand banks just there.
These Straits (of Rumenia) have six small Islands [Pulau
Lima] on each side of Jantana [Johor] which is on the North
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SINGAPORE OLD STRAITS AND NEW HARBOUR. 29
of it and along which the course is East and West (the French
is not clear). They are about eight leagues distant [from the
Singapore Strait]. You will beware of passing between two of
them. The sea near here, that is for half a league to the South,
is quite clear and fair with a sandy bottom in fifteen fathoms.
Half way between the Straits [of Singapore] and the said
Islands is the river of Iantana which has a very wide mouth,
the entrance to which lies on the East side where large vessels
often enter. On the West side, where there is a hill of red
earth [Tanah Merah on Singapore Island] just beyond the
mouth of the river, is a sandbank which stretches to sea for a
league and a half and has been touched by many ships, you
should beware of it. At the end of the said islands a reef
[Rumenia shoals and North Patch] stretches for a full two
leagues to sea Hast-North-Hast over which in fair weather only
a little foam can be seen but where a heavy sea breaks in
rough weather.
Between this reef and the islands is a large channel with a
rocky bottom; the greatest [? smallest] depth which I have
found is five and a half fathoms, from that seven and a half and
again six and eight and a half are found. The width of the
channel is a good cannon-shot across. If you wish to use this
channel you must turn off your course half a league from the
islands without coming closer to them for fear of coming on
the banks as happened to Francisco Daginer who nearly lost
his ship. Two leagues to the South-East of these islands is
another small island which is a reef or rock of white stone and
hence called Pedra Branqua {Pedra Branca and Horsburgh
Light] and near and to the South of it are other rocks and
reefs. To the South also lies the island of Bintcn”’ | Bintang].
_ In the above translation the remarks in square brackets are
tiy own. These sailing directions are wonderfully clear seeing
that they are a translation from the French of a translation from
the Dutch of a translation from the Portuguese and there can be
no doubt that the route which Linschoten taught to his fellow
ecountry-men lay through the Sélat Sembilan and Keppel Harbour.
It may be of value to note that Linschoten never visited the Further
East; he arrived in India in 1583 and left it in 1589; his account
of che passage from Malacca fo Macau must therefore have been
drawn from Portuguese sources and it is evident that some of the
Portuguese pilots had a competent knowledge of their profession.
Ae Dik 9 9:
Viaggi di Carletti vol. 11. 208-9
quoted in Yule’s Hobson-Jobson”’ s. v. Singapore.
In this voyage nothing occurred worth relating...... except
that after passing the straits of Sincapura...... between the main-
land and a variety of islands...... with so narrow a channel that
from the ship you could jump ashore or touch the branches of
the trees on either side, our vessel stuck on a shoal.
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 1911.
3O SINGAPORE OLD STRAITS AND NEW HARBOUR.
This is a very fair traveller’s description of a passage through
the narrows of New Harbour but it is not applicable to one round
Singapore Island. That a traveller should not have appreciated
that Singapore is not a part of the main-land needs no explanation.
Linschoten regarded the Sélat Tébrau as a river.
A. D. 1604
Emanuel Godinho de Hredia in his Declaracam de Malaca, written in
1613 and published with a French translation by M. Leon Janssen at
Brussels in 1882, gives three sketch maps of the end of the Peninsula.
The one on page 61 is headed Discripsao Chorographica dos
- estreitos de Sincapura e Sattam Ano 1604, and gives the following
places: Tanion buro (Tanjong Bulus) Pulo Cucob, Rio Pule
(Sungei Pulai), Salat Tubro (Selat Tebrau), Pulo Ular, blacan mati
(Blakang Mati), estreito novo (new straits), estreito velho
(old straits), Xabandaria (on Singapore island probably near the
mouth of the Singapore river, meaning Shabandar’s i.e. Harbour
Master’s office), Tanjon Ru, Sune bodo (Sungai Bedoh), Tana meva
(Tanah Merah), and Tanjon Rusa (at Changi). Additional names are
given on the other sketches as follows:— Estreyto Sincapura (Sin-
gapore Straits in the same position as estreite velho above) Siquijam
(Pulau Sakijang St: John’s Island), Pedra Branca (Horsburgh light)
Rido de Jor (Johore River), Cotabatu (Kota batu), Batusawar, and
Ponta Romania.
The sketches clearly show that three passages were known :—
the old and new straits and the Selat Tébrau and that the old strait
was New Harbour and the new strait the present main straits. It
should be noted that no place names are given near the last, whilst
on the South of Singapore are noted the residence of the Malay
official and the places where wood and water were obtainable. Val-
entyn (J. S. B., R. A. S. Vol: XV p. 134) says “on the 5th of May
(1606) two prahus of the king of Johor with the Shahbandar
of Singapore Seri Raja Nagara reached our fleet,” and it is in-
teresting to note that in the Sejarah Malayu ( page 250 Shellabear’s
Romanised edition 1910 ) we are told of the stout defence offered by
the “ penglima raayat Raja Nagara batin Singapura,’ against at-
tacks by Portuguese from Malacea. The presence of a Shahbandar
implies visits by foreign ships and traders.
AvoD wots
Bocarro 428. Yule op: cit: s.v. Governor’s Straits.’
1615. The Governor sailed from Manilla in March of this year
with ten galleons and two galleys...... On arriving at the straits of
Sincapur...... and passing by a new strait which since has taken
the name of Estreito do Governador, there his galleon grounded
on the reef at the point of the strait and was a little grazed by
the top of it.
The Governor came to grief in the present Singapore straits.
A Dt 700
A new Account of the East Indies by Captain Aiexander Hamilton...
...who spent his time there from 1688 to 1723...... Edinburgh 1727.
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SINGAPORE OLD STRAITS AND NEW HARBOUR. 31
Vol II. page 93
Johore has the benefit of a fine deep large river which admits
of two entrances into it. The smaller is from the westward
called by the Europeans the Straits of Sincapure but by the
Natives Salleta le Brew (Sélat Tébrau). It runs along the side
of Sincapure Island for 5 or 6 leagues together and ends at the
great river of Johore.
Wel. page 123. -.
Upon the East side of the great Carimon is the entrance of
the straits of Drions [Durian! and between the small Carimon
and Tanjong bellong | Tanjong Bulus] on the continent is the en-
trance of the Straits of Sincapure before mentioned and also into
the Straits of Governadore, the largest and easiest passage into
the China seas.
This is probably the ‘locus classicus’ whence the tradition that —
the Sélat Tébrau forms the old straits of Singapore was. derived.
It would seem that between 1600 and 1700 the passage through
Keppel Harbour fell into such complete disuse by European vessels
that its very existence was forgotten. It was probably convenient
for those ships only which could be worked with sweeps or towed
with reship’s boats in case of lack of wind, and hence as the size of
shipping increased it went out of fashion.
1826
Singapore Chronicle August 1826
(quoted in Moor’s Notices of the Indian Archipelago Singapore
1827, page 276 )
These (remarks) are from the Notes of Captain Rous and the
officers of H.M.S. Rainbow and may be relied on as correct.
| After a recommendation to stand closer in shore from Formosa
Point to Pulau Pisang than Horsburgh approves of, the passage
continues.| On reaching Singapore straits if a vessel is unable
to weather Barn Island with the wind to the Southward she
should bear up for the passage through the Selat Sinki or New
Harbour. This will be found safe and expeditious for vessels
under 600 tons burden but for ships of a larger size it is narrow
and confined. The entrance to the passage bears E.N.E. from
Sultan Shoal and is bold on each side, the only danger being a
two fathom bank on the South side. After clearing the narrows
and opening Singapore Harbour steer along Trumba Trumbaya
reef a cable’s length off and when well to the Southward edge
away for the anchorage.
The passage above described was effected with success by
H.M.S. Rainbow, the first vessel that has ever come through in-
tentionally. The ‘ William Parker,’ a free trader passed through
by mistake some time ago and it was generally considered a very
dangerous experiment. The enterprise of Captain Rous has how-
ever established its practicability and these notes and observa-
tions which were taken with great care will render the passage
easy and safe for navigators. In these operations we understand
R. A. Soc., No: 60, I9II.
32 SINGAPORE OLD STRAITS AND NEW HARBOUR.
that Capt. Rous was ably assisted by Mr. Bernard, Agent of
Lloyd’s, who came in the Rainbow from Malacca and whose
practical knowledge of the Straits and Islands made his sugges-
tions and information highly useful in exploring this unfrequent-
ed track.
It will be noted that the name New Harbour was in use in
1826.
1841.
“ Horsburgh ” 5th edition vol: ii. 264.
Singapore Strait called Governor Strait or New Strait by
French and Portuguese.
The name Straits of Singapore was first applied to Keppel Har-
bour then (see Hamilton above) to the Sélat Tébrau and lastly to
. the Straits now so called.
1843-4
Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang by Sir Edward Belcher, London 1848.
Vol: Eh pageahso:
Upon a cursory examination of the Chart of this Channel
(constructed by Mr. Thompson in 1842) I observe that a safe and
short channel would be available by night and day provided that
a light were established on the hill above the Malay village. That
a leading mark seen clear of the point of Blakan Mati would
bring a steamer from the fairway fork (to either Channel) into
the New Harbour by a direct course of twelve miles. |
It will be noted that in 1842 Keppel Harbour had been sur-
veyed.
1848.
‘Prisoners their own Warders,’’ McNair and Bayliss, London 1899
page 66.
In the year 1848 we find that the Indian convicts were em-
ployed in blasting some considerable part of a mass of rock known
to the Malays as Batu Belayer or “stone to sail to’ and by Eu-
ropeans as © Lot’s wife.” It was a dangerous obstruction to
navigation being situated on the Singapore side of the Western
Entrance to the New Harbour. It is reported as known to old
navigators, of these seas and was shown on old charts over two
hundred years ago.
The Government evidentiy took in hand in this year the im-
provement of this channel, which they had caused to be surveyed
by Mr. Thompson in 1842.
1848.
An anecdotal History of old Times in Singapore. C. B. Buckley
Singapore 1902. page 4938.
It was in May 30th of this year (1848) that Capt. Keppel
wrote in his diary on board the ' Maeander ”’ :
“On pulling about in my gig among the numerous prettily-
wooded islands on the Westward entrance to the Singapore
River I was astonished to find deep water close to the shore with
a safe passage for ships larger than the “Maeander.” Now
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SINGAPORE OLD STRAITS AND NEW HARBOUR. 33
that steam is likely to come into use this ready-made harbour
as a depot for coals would be invaluable. I had the position
surveyed and sent it with my report to the Admiralty. As it
was, a forge was landed and artificers employed under commo-
dious shades all under the eyes of the officers on board.”
These repairs on the Maeander were therefore the first re-
pairs done in New Harbour... *so it was Keppel who first sailed
through New Harbour* and Singaporeans often said that it should
not haye been called New Harbour, which meant nothing, but
Keppel Harbour. This was eventually done on the 19th April
1900 when the old Admiral was on a visit to Singapore.
A visit to the Indian Archipelago in H.M.S. Maeander Capt. the
Hon. Henry Keppel, London 1853, page 16,
While preparations were making [May-August 1848] for the
establishment at Labuan the Maeander refitted in the snug and
picturesque New Harbour which appears to have been over-
looked in selecting the first points of settlement; the only objec-
tion to it as a harbour is the intricacy of the Eastern entrance;
a difficulty which by the introduction of steam has become of
little consequence. No place could be better adopted for a coal
depot ; and as a harbour for a man-of-war to refit it is most con-
venient. The forge can be landed, boats repaired and artificers
employed under commodious sheds and all under the immediate
eye of the officers on board. It has another great advantage over
Singapore Roads, in the latter anchorage a ship’s bottom becomes
more foul than in any other [ know of, perhaps from the near prox-
imity to the bottom; this is not the case in New Harbour in which
there is always a tide running. Although it has the appearance
of being hot and confined, surrounded as it is by high land we did
not find it so in reality ; generally there is a current of air inside
while the ships in the stagnant and crowded roads are becalmed.
It will be seen from the above quotations that the gallant Admiral
made no claim to have been the first to sail through New Harbour
He doubtless know of the number of ships which had used the passage
and he does not even say that he used it himself on this occasion.
In fact it appears probable that he did not.
AED 1857.
Anecdotal History of Singapore page 649.
- On the 19th of March H.M.S. Raleigh Capt. Turner bearing
the broad pennant of Commodore Keppel C.B., sailed into New
Harbour... As the old admiral was in Singapore when this
chapter was being written he was asked .. . if he remembered
how it came about that he sailed the Raleigh into New Harbour
instead of into the Reads. He said that it was because he had
surveyed New Harbour while he was in the Maeander and had the
same Master (navigating officer) with him in the Raleigh who had
* The italics are mine.
R. A. Soc., No. 60, I9TI, -
24 SINGAPORE OLD STRAITS AND NEW HARBOUR,
surveyed it with him so he felt quite confident about it although
others had been afraid to go in.
There can have been no difficulty in sailing into New Harbour
in 1857 seeing that P. and O. offices there were opened in 1852
(Anecdotal History page 566).
AceDe 1900;
Singapore Free Press 3.1.00.
It was Sir Henry Keppel who first of all in H. M.S. Raleigh
in 1856 sailed from the Westward through the new channel which
his examination and recommendation created as the New Har-
bour Singapore.
This is an absurd mis-statement. Hundreds of ships must have
passed through New Harbour before 1856.
Straits Settlements Government Gazette Extraordinary 19.4.00.
Notification No. 401.
In order to perpetuate the remembrance of the fact that the
capabilities of the New Harbour at Singapore as a passage for
ships of the deepest draught and an excellent Harbour were first
demonstrated by the Hon. Capt. Keppel, R.N. of H.M.S. Dido
now Admiral of the Fleet Sir H. Keppel G.C.B., D.C.L.
It is hereby notified for public information that the New
Harbour will in future be called and known by the name of Keppel
Harbour Singapore.
Singapore 19th April, 1900.
Keppel Harbour is a good name and the late Admiral deserved all
the hono 1rs conferred upon him, but the reasons given for bestowing
this particular one are very uncorvincing. Captain Keppel was here
in the Dido in 1842-1844 but it was not till his next visit in the
Maeander in 1848 that he discovered all that he himself ever
claimed to have discovered namely that New Harbour was an
excellent place wherein to lay a ship up to refit and afforded great
natural advantages for a coaling station.
The tradition that the Johore straits are the old Singapore
straits will probably never die, but the new legend that Admiral
Keppel was the first person to take a good sized ship through Keppel
Harbour has got so short a start that it should be possible to
overtake it. |
Jour, Straits Brench R. A. Soc. No, 60. 1011,
An old Royal Cemetery at Pekan in Pahang.
By WARREN D. BARNES.
(With three plates.)
The plates to this paper are from photographs of the “ Makam
Chondong” at Pekan which lies at no great distance from the Istana
of His Highness the Tungku Besar. The name ©“ Makam Chon-
dong” should in strictness mean the graves with a leaning shrine
over them and it is very probable that the graves were once roofed
in and that the building over them fell into decay and became out of
the perpendicular. No trace however of such a building is to be
seen. The local explanation of the name is that the surround-
ing trees all “ chondong” to the “ makam’’ doing obeisance to it.
The graves are on a platform of earth about 50 feet square,
three or four feet high, and surrounded by a shallow ditch.. On
one side is a large hollow from which the earth to make the mound
was perhaps obtained. It appears probable that the sides of the
platform were once vertical and faced with bricks. A number of
these bricks are still to be seen; they are really flat tiles measuring
ten inches by five by two and a half. All the graves are on the
Northern side of the platform, the rest 1s unoccupied.
His Highness the Tungku Besar informs me that he has a
distinet recollection of visiting this cemetery about twenty years
ago and finding on one of the stones the name Mahmud”’ in gold
letters. His Highness says that he took particular care to turn the
stone over with the inscription downwards. The inscription has
however disappeared and an examination of the photographs will -
show that the names on all the stones have been chipped away,
doubtless to obtain the gold used to make them.
IT am told that about twenty or thirty years ago a herd of wild
elephants did a good deal of damage to the graves.. Mr. J. B.
Serivenor the Federal Geologist to whom I submitted a fragment
from one of the stones said that 1t was a fine grained sandstone
of no particular interest.
Tt will be seen that two of the large graves are male and one
female. ‘To the west of them and only shown in the small scale
photograph is a grave with two plain stones; it is probably
a female grave. In the centre of the platform are the fragments of
two large grave stones similar to those shown in the larger scale
photographs. It is probably on one of these that the name Mah-
mud was found. Alongside them is an unimportant female grave.
My suggestion that the most important person would be buried in
Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc., No. 60. I9II,
_far from the Makam Chondong and Makam Nibong. The grave
36 AN OLD ROYAL CEMETERY AT PEKAN IN PAHANG.
the centre was negatived by a native authority who objected that in
that case the subsequent and less important persons buried here
would have their feet on his head. Difficulties of this nature have
not however troubled the present royal family whose graves at
Kampong Marhom near Kuala Pahang have no particular order or
arrangement.
T believe that a careful examination of the undamaged ar ots
of tha stones might lead to the detection of other names. I how-
ever failed to read any and no one whom I consulted had been
more successful.
The only other clue to the indentity of the occupants of these
graves is a tradition of doubtful value that in the large female
grave is buried one Che Puan Layang who is herself nothing but a
name. I could hear of no other traditions.
It is certain that Sultan Mahmud was one of the early rulers
of Pahang. He is mentioned in the Séjarah Malayu, where it is
said that the Sultan Mahmud who lost Malacca to the Portuguese
married his daughter, and he is also mentioned in the Bustanu-
s-salatin’ list of Pahang rajas as being the son of the first raja
Sultan Muhammad Shah and himself the fifth ruler. His posthum-
ous title is given as Marhom di-hilir, 7.¢., the late ruler down-
river. If one of the graves is really his, its date would be about the
beginning of the 16th century.
There are at least two other old cemeteries at Pekan. The
‘““Makam Nibong” which lies within a few hundred yards of the
‘“Makam Chondong” is also on a platform. There are on this
a number of graves but all appear to be female. On one is a clear
inscription in Arabic. It is carved however in a lapidary’s style
which batfles the few persons in Pekan who claim to read Arabic.
I could hear no traditions as to the date of these graves or as to
their occupants.
Another well known grave is that called Ziarat Raja Raden.
It is near the river bank within the Sultan’s reserved area and not
stones are of similar type to those of Raja Fatimah a description of
which has already been published in this Journal. An inscription
in Arabic which has been read for me consists of praises of God, and
a difficult specimen of Arabic writing at the foot of one of the
stones was recently determined to contain the name Abdulalil. A
local Malay student of history decided that the grave must be that
of Sultan Abduljalil of Johore who succeeded the mad Sultan
Mahmud Shah IT of Johore (Mangkat dijulang) in about 1700 and
was himself known as Marhom Kuala Pahang. (see Wilkinson’s
History pamphlet pp: 53-55). This however is pure guess-work ;
there is no local tradition on the subject. It may be noted that
Raja Raden is the name given by Godinho d’Erédia to Sultan
Alaedin Riayat Shah III of Johore, the Sultan who died at Acheen
in about 1615. It is therefore a possible popular name for a ruler.
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Se. Rt.
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OLD CEMETERY IN PEKAN.
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OLD CEMETERY
IN
PEKAN.
OLD CEMETERY
IN
PEKAN.
An old Tombstone in Pahang.
By WARREN D, BARNES.
(With two plates.)
In May, 1910, His Highness the Tungku Besar of Pahang was
visiting Kuala Lipis, and among the presents brought to him by the
local Penghulus was a gravestone which was reported to have been
found some time previously in the Pahang River near the Peng-
hulu’s landing stage at Tebing Tinggi. The stone was carved with
an inscription in Arabic characters which baffled the local scholars.
A transcription of it was subsequently made by the Mufti at Pekan,
Haji Osman bin Senik. It proved of great interest, as the stone
was the gravestone of Raja Fatimah who died in A. H. 901. 7. e.
A. D. 1496 or fifteen years before Albuquerque captured Malacca.
I propose to give a description of the stone which now lies in the
Istana of His Highness at Pekan, and to discuss the identity of
Raja Fatimah.
The plates which accompany this paper show the shape of the
stone. Its height from its top to the bottom of the carved foot is
992 inches; its width across the carved foot 14 inches, and across
the face 9+ inches; its thickness in the thinner portion 5 inches.
The following description has been given me by Mr. J. B.
Serivenor, Government Geologist, Federated Malay States, of a
chip from the bottom of it :-—
“This is an excellent example of a basic lava. The base is
cloudy but is evidently composed to a large extent of felspar micro-
liths. The felspar phenocrysts are fresh and beautifully zoned in
some cases. The extinction angles are not very high and point to
the felspar being andesine. Augite, almost colourless in section, is
common and there is a deep brown, strongly pleochroic mineral
with nearly straight extinction that occurs chiefly in prisms with
strongly marked black rescrption borders. This mineral is most
probably basaltic hornblende, but it cannot be proved from this
slide. There is one large crystal of biotite much altered.”’
“It would be interesting to compare this rock with the grave-
stones in the Raftles Museum, Singapore. They appeared to me to
be of the same nature.”’ .
“ This rock, which may be called pyroxene-hornb!ende-andesite,
might have come from some outcrop of the Pahang Volcanic Series,
but I do not remember seeing anything exactly like it.”
May, 1910. dig 135 Tsk
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 1911.
38 AN OLD TOMBSTONE IN PAHANG.
The carving on the stone is surprisingly fresh, and as patches
of ““jadam” or black varnish still remain visible on the stone it-
self—they are clearly shown in the photographs—it is probable that
the story that it was found in the river is correct. It isin much
better preservation than many stones of much more recent date. It
appears likely that the whole stone was once covered with black
varnish and very possibly the name on it was picked out in gold.
The photographs show :—
A. The whole stone; B. One flat side; C. The opposite flat side;
D. One narrow side.
The transeription of the inscriptions as given by our local
authority at Pekan is as follows :—
(i) B. The heart-shaped inscription above :—
Al ghafur, meaning The Lord most forgiving.
The inscription below :— Al-hejrat al-nabi salla Allahu
alaihi wa’s-salam sembilan ratus sa tahun lima belas hari.”
(ii) C. The heart-shaped inscription above :—
Al-jalil meaning The Lord most great.
The inscription below:—bulan shawal malam isnin Raja
Fatimah kembali ka-rahmat Allah.
The translation of the two inscriptions is :—
On the eve of Monday the fifteenth day of the Moon Shawal
in the year 901 cf the Hejira of the Prophet, to whom may God
give peace, Raja Fatimah returned to God’s mercy.
(iii) D. The heart-shaped inscription above :—
Al-’ala, meaning The L-rd most high.
The inscription below :—Arabic words meaning Death is a
gate and all men go in thereat.
(iv) On the other narrow side :—
The heart-shaped inscription above :—
Al-aziz, meaning The Lord most powerful.
The inscription below :—Arabic words meaning Death is a
cup and all men drink thereof.
(v) On the flat top of the stone :—
Arabic words the meaning of which has not been clearly
made out.
The identity of this Raja Fatimah is fairly certain, although
the early history of Pahang is not clear. The authorities are the
Sejarah Malayu and the Bustanu-al-Salatin, of an extract from
which His Highness possesses a copy. According to the Séjarah
Malayu (Shellabear’s Romanised Edition, 1910, pages 82-86) Pa-
hang with its capital Pura, z.e. the city, 2.e. Pekan, was at one
time under the rule of “Siam” and was governed by Maharaja
Dewa Sura who belonged io the family of the ruler of that country.
This “ Siam’’ was probably not the present Thai Kingdom. It
had previously sent an abortive expedition against Malacca which
would appear to have followed the well-known route down the Tem-
beling and the Pahang and up the Bera and Serting over the
‘Penarekan’ to the Muar.
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AN OLD TOMBSTONE IN PAHANG. 39
In reply, Sultan Mansur, who, according to Mr. Wilkinson’s
“ History ’’ pamphlet, 1908, page 24, came to the throne about A.D.
1459, sent a naval expedition against Pahang which captured the
country and its ruler as well as the ruler’s daughter, Putéri Wanang
Séri, whom the Sultan subsequently married. By this marriage he
had two sons, Raja Ahmad Muhammad and Raja Muhammad.
Raja Ahmad Muhammad was the Sultan’s favourite of all his sons
and was nominated as his heir. He lost favour, however, owing to
the murder by his followers of a son of the Béndahara who, when
playing “raga,” had inadvertently so kicked the ball that it knock-
ed off the Raja’s head-dress. The Sultan accordingly banished him
to his mother’s country of Pahang, of which he had him installed as
Sultan. under the title of Sultan Muhammad. The new Sultan
married the grand-daughter of the Raja of Kelantan and had three
sons, Raja Ahmad, Raja Jamil, and Raja Mahmud, and a daughter
who married her cousin Sultan Mahmud of Malacea—the Sultan
whom Albuquerque ejected in 1511. According to the Bustanu-al-
Salatin, Sultan Muhammad was succeeded by his son Sultan Ah-
mad, who by a non-royal wife had a son Raja Mansur. The Sultan
abdicated in favour of this son who married Raja Fatimah the
daughter of Sultan Ala’edin Riayat Shah of Malacca who was the
son of Sultan Mansur and the father of the Sultan Mahmud just
mentioned. I believe that the gravestone found is that of this lady.
She would appear to have had an unhappy time in Pahang as
her husband died without children being “ murdered by all his
warriors.”
His uncle Raja Jamil succeeded and was rapidly followed by
the other uncle Raja Mahmud who contrived to establish himself
on the throne. He seems to have married a cousin, the daughter
of his uncle Raja Muhammad, and his daughter married Sultan
Ala’edin Shah of Malacea, Sultan Mahmud’s successor.
Apparently civil war followed on the death of the first Sultan
of Pahang. The omission in the Séjarah Malayu of any reference
to the murder of Raja Mansur might be ascribed to the author’s
theory that “Malays never rebel,’ but other inconsistencies bet-
ween his account and the detailed genealogy of the Bustanu-al-
Salatin must be ascribed to inaccurate information and confusion
between rulers of different generations who bore the same or simi-
lar names.
Tébing Tinggi, the place where this stone was found, is not
known to have been a residence of royalty, but it is not far above
Lubok Pélang to which, according to the Séjarah Malayu, Sultan
Abduljamal of Pahang retired after his abdication, and where he is
said to have died.
As far as I am aware, this stone is the oldest dated gravestone
in the Peninsula,
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 1911.
OLD
TOMBSTONES,
PAHANG.
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OLD TOMBSTONE
PAHANG.
y
A Trip to a Source of the Sarawak River and
Bengkarum Mountains.
bY (Ce J BROOKS:
At the end of September, 1908, I had the opportunity of
making a jungle excursion and decided to follow the main stream
of the so-called right hand branch of the Sarawak River to its
source, cross the watershed to the upper waters of the Sambas
River, visit Bengkarum Mountain, and return to Sarawak by Jagnay.
As far as lam able to ascertain much of the country I passed
through had not been visited by a European, certainly the ascent
of Bengkarum Mountain had not been made, this together with the
highly interesting botanical collection obtained makes a_ short
account of the trip of sufficient interest to place on record. The
start was made from Bidi on the Twenty-first of September, where
I engaged eight Dyak coolies to carry necessaries and collecting
materials, with a Malay to act as Mandor. The path taken was
that over Gonong Tran through the old village of the Krokong
Dyaks. Here we stopped for a few minutes to adjust the various
loads ; this village had two years before been completely abandoned
as a bad epidemic of smallpox broke out there: the Dyaks are now
returning and a number of new houses are being built on the old
site in spite of the insanitary conditions which exist; the hill top
having become a perfect midden from the accumulation of refuse
dropped through the floors of the houses. I once tried with a ten
foot iron probe (used for prospecting) to reach the hard ground but
this I was unable to do anywhere in the immediate neighbourhood
of the houses. Descending on the further side of the hill and
taking the path to the river where the new village has been built,
then through undulating country covered with new jungle to the
B’down river which we forded, and then following for some hours
a belt of old jungle, we finally forded the main stream at Tebang
or Pangkaln Gumbang, which we reached at two o’clock. Here is
a flourishing Chinese Kampong with several pepper gardens, the
situation is extremely picturesque as the houses are interspersed
with groups of cocoanut palms and the surrounding country is
mountainous and rugged. To escape a heavy shower which com-
menced just as we arrived I took shelter in a Chinaman’s house,
my host, with the usual Chinese hospitality offered me a cup of
tea; its fine flavour caused me to enquire where he had obtained
it, | found that it was of his own cultivation: this is not unusual,
many up country Chinese growing their own tea plants. On
leaving Tebang our path followed the river in which we had to
wade for some distance—the stream was shallow and fast running
with large boulders among the Krangan. Here in the clear space
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42 A TRIP TO A SOURCE OF THE SARAWAK RIVER
between the river banks were flying several specimens of the Leaf
Butterfly (Kallima inachus buxtoni, More.) a great rarity in
Sarawak; I was fortunate enough to capture two specimens while
both of them were at rest; contrary to Wallace’s observations in
Sumatra they were quite easy to see, for one had alighted on the
trunk of a large tree against the sky line, the other on a leaf over-
hanging the water. The guide missed the path leading from the
river, taking us some miles in the wrong direction. The hills were
now becoming very steep and following each other in constant
succession as the road crosses the ranges at right angles to their
direction. At dusk we entered a new clearing for a paddy field;
this the coolies hailed with delight as the Teringos house for which
we were making could not be far distant; the path where it entered
the jungle again forked, which caused some hesitation but on my
guide assuring me that cither led to a house the choice was im-
material. After climbing a steep hill, the house came in view. In
the dusk we could see that it was now a mass of ruins and had
been abandoned for some time. Night closed in before we regained
the road so that walking was now a difficult matter, becoming a
succession of slips and scrambles down the hill: before going far
we met a Dyak who was returning home with some bamboos filled
with ‘Ive Noor,” the slightly fermented juice of the sugar palm;
this the coolies seized even before enquiring the way, which we now
learned was only a short distance, and in a few minutes we were
enjoying the welcome shelter of a house with rest and food after
a tramp of nine hours. The next morning I decided to follow the
river to the Teringos falls and if possible further. The river scenery
is very beautiful, the banks in places rising in steep or precipitous
cliffs covered with luxuriant vegetation, the river bed filled with
enormous sandstone boulders breaking it into a series of cascades,
in other places almost completely hiding it from view as it flows
between them, I collected a number of interesting orchids and
ferns, insects were rather scarce: only a few were taken, among
them was a specimen of Melanitis zitenius, Herbst. Several others
were observed and unlike Melanitis ismene were flying in the bright
morning sunshine, their high and strong flight made them difficult
to capture. To obtain if possible any interesting specimens of fish
which might occur in an upland river, I exploded dynamite ear-
tridges in two of the deep pools but with no result: nothing rose
to the surface and a Dyak who dived assured that there were none
at the bottom. A succession of minor fails were passed before
reaching the chief, of which the total height must be over one
hundred feet, it is broken into two cascades about twenty feet from
the top: there was little water running now but after heavy rain
when a large river is flowing the fall must be a magnificent sight.
The path led to the face of the cliff which formed the water-
fall and continued over it by a series of steep ladders, these are of
the usual Dyak type, small tree trunks with deep notches cut
forming steps. Above the fall the river has excavated a deep valley
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AND BENGKARUM MOUNTAIN. 43
in the sandstone rock the sides of which are very steep, and the
path follows a ledge somewhat below the summit, which in many
places is broken by clefts and gullies bridged by battangs. After
proceeding for some distance a very heavy storm broke compelling
us to return to the house. The houses here are not of the type
usual among land Dyaks, as each family has a detached building
with a space of a few feet intervening between the houses, but they
are connected by the usual bamboo platform—the roofs are ex-
tremely high pitched with ordinary flap windows, the internal
arrangement is such that the space in front used for paddy pound-
ing, ete., is often separated by a large outer door, thus dividing a
house into two separate rooms.
I could learn nothing here of the route to Bengkarum, but most
of the Dyaks were certain that from Trebong direction could be
obtained, so I decided to proceed thither the following day. As the
coolies were rather heavily loaded, I engaged the services of two
more Dyaks: after allotting them their packages and starting I was
somewhat surprised to see that one had transferred his load which
was not a light one to a small girl of about eight years of age, his
daughter, she, wishing to pay a call at a house which we should
pass, accepted the “privilege”? of Dyak women of carrying the
men’s load. By a short cut we joined the path at the falls and -
proceeded practically from the place where we had returned the
day previously ; after walking for Jittle more than an hour we des-
cended the ridge and crossed the stream to a fairly level tract of
country surrounded on three sides by mountains: near by in a large
open space were several Dyak houses. As the sitnation was so
pleasing and the country promised well for collecting I decided to
spend the remainder of the day here; we accommodated ourselves
and baggage in the house belonging to the head man. A series of
moans from the adjoining house attracted my attention; on entering
I found a young woman suffering from a severe colic. I ordered
her Dyak friends to apply two bottles filled with hot water and for
her immediate relief I administered a tabloid of Warburg Tinct. On
returning in the evening I found the patient had not had the bottles
of hot water. 1 enquired the reason and to my surprise learned
that they had not yet ht a fire to cook their rice and could not
think of doing so before their evening meal, although they had no
doubt but that the hot water would be beneficial. It was not long
before those Dyaks had a fire lighted and heated the water, before
cooking the rice.
I now followed the course of the river in the bottom of the
valley which I found to be a splendid collecting ground; my atten-
tion was immediately attracted by a beautiful scarlet orchid
Dendrobium cinnabarium, growing plentifully on many trees and
flowering freely, closely resembling in habit the Pigeon orchid;
many other rare orchids and ferns occur here and a large nepenthes
of elegant shape; insects were rather scarce, but among the few
taken was a fine specimen of Ornithoptera Brookeana.
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44 A TRIP TO A SOURCE OF THE SARAWAK RIVER
In a house near my sleeping place were several large jars of
salted Durien—the jars being very porous, the juice was oozing out
and the scent was almost intolerable, I asked to have them removed
and had great difficulty in getting this done as the Dyak owners
could not apparently understand how such a luxury can be ob-
jectionable. During the evening a number of Dyaks came in to
have a chat-chat, each bringing a small present of rice and eggs,
I disappointed them when I refused their invitation to stay another
night so that they could call their friends together and give a dance
in my honour. By means of a boiling point thermometer I took
the altitude and found it to be about fourteen hundred feet.
A good start was made the next morning at eight o’clock: the
path now descending on the opposite side of the watershed was in
some places extremely steep with deep gullies crossed by tree
trunks felled so as to form bridges. As the heavy dew of the pre-
vious night had rendered them slippery care was necessary in
crossing ; for some hours we passed through new jungle which had
been cleared within the last five years for paddy farming, and after
fording a fair sized stream we climbed a ridge of old jungle and
followed it for many miles, then descending and crossing an omah
we arrived at Kapot at four o'clock. This is a large Dyak Kampong
well situated on the bank of a rapid wide flowing river, and judging
from the number of large fruit trees and palms growing here, it must
have been an old settlement; the houses are all detached as at
Teringos and of the same type, which gives it more the appearance
of a Malay rather than Dyak Kampong, but the high pitched roofs
present a striking contrast to both—all the houses are connected
by the bamboo platform. On ascending we were immediately
surrounded by a large crowd of Dyaks who expressed undoubted
annoyance at our intrusion—my first enquiry was for the Orang
Kaya, who at once came forward, and at my request for lodging,
shewed us to the head house, which we entered with as many Dyaks
following as the house would hold—the general cry was what do
you want?” to which I answered that Iam a Tuan from Sarawak,
taking a walk to Bengkarum collecting flowers and insects, I am
not a government official tax collecting, and after shewing them
some of my specimens, they appeared satisfied and most of them
left the house, which gave us room to open and arrange our things.
My coolies were very frightened at so suddenly coming amongst a
strange and somewhat wild people speaking in a dialect which was
unknown to them, and stood shivering in their wet clothes half
inclined to try and persuade me to take the road home again.
After having changed my clothes, and drunk a welcome cup of tea,
I proceeded to explore the extent of the Kampong, at one end of
which I came upon a large group of Dyaks dividing a fine catch of
fish which they had just made and one of which had been previously
given to me. The division is made, after removing the viscera, by
chopping the fish into small pieces about an inch cube, then on a
large mat one cube is placed for each family, and so again and again,
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AND BENGKARUM MOUNTAIN. 4:5
until all the pieces have been equally distributed; I counted fifty-
three portions, then a further division was made from a vessel
containing a most objectionable semi-cooked mass, which I was
informed was the viscera. Each recipient having provided himself
with a banana leaf twisted into the form of a cup, it was ladelled
into these in small quantities at a time. At the finish it was a
most disgusting sight to see a number of small children licking out
the trough. I noticed that an unusually large number of the
natives here were attacked by Corup and many of the women had
stained their entire bodies with turmeric root—they state that this
cures it, or perhaps only allays the irritation: the women were
extremely frightened, and whenever I appeared, beat a hasty retreat,
being the first white man they had seen. After my evening meal
a large number of the natives came to see me, each bringing a small
present of eggs or rice; among them was the Orang Kayah and his
wife, the only woman who dared to come near or speak to me during
my stay with them: they were both dressed in state costume,
which consisted, in the case of the former, of a high crowned
military cap with broad band of silver lace and button to match,
given to him by the Dutch Government: the lady was wearing a
gaily coloured bead cap about eight inches high and tapering con-
siderably, together with a blue cotton jacket, the edges trimmed
with beads: we discussed politics which were not considered to be
in a very satisfactory condition here, paddy, and many other mat-
ters, and I was pleased to learn that Bengkarum or Krum, as it is
ealled here, was at no great distance; and I heard that a Malay
who represented the government was resident here and would call
upon me in the morning; my visitors stayed until a late hour, I
heard them talking long after 1 had retired to my curtain.
The next morning on descending to the river to bathe, I was
surprised to find that the Dyaks of both sexes were bathing in
a state of nudity. I understand however, that this is customary
among Dyaks who are quite out of contact with Chinese or
Europeans. The Malay official called while I was breakfasting, he
was very polite, and offered any assistance that he could give me:
as the coolies were tired after the long tramp of the previous day, I
decided to let them rest, while I spent the time collecting in the
neighbourhood, which did not prove very productive. From the
summit of a hill I had a splendid view of Bengkarum Mountain
which could not be more than ten miles distant. In the evening
we had but few Dyaks to visit us, of these, two were men who had
been most enthusiastic to accompany me, and had told me they
knew the road to Bengkarum ; they now explained that the purpose
of their visit was to enquire if I really intended to go; if so,
although previously having promised to go with me, they refused,
and then with a great deal of talk I was given to understand that
no one else would, in fact no one did go, there was no road, the
mountain was quite unclimable and the place was so full of Antus
(spirits) that something unlucky would happen; however, after
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repeatedly telling them that now I had come so far, if I could not
set from this place, I would from another, they withdrew. I was
much annoyed at this, and of course the coolies were much up-
set, half inclined to believe that the Antus had already started some
mischief—they spent a very restless night, hardly any of them
sleeping. In the morning I interviewed the Orang Kayah, he in-
formed me that this information was in part correct, as the Dyaks
here did not extend their excursions as far as this mountain ;
but from the next village I could most likely get directions and he
would send a coolie to take me there. After waiting for some time
for the promised coolie, I decided to apply to my Malay friend who
immediately directed a Dyak to act as my guide.
We commenced the journey by wading for some distance
down the river and then began an extremely trying and severe
ascent of Gonong Trebong: the road although good was exposed to
a glaring sun at a very steep incline, it was nearly two hours
before we gained the top of the ridge on which the house is situa-
ted, immediately below it is a spring of deliciously cold water issuing
from a crack in the sandstone; the Dyaks told me that however dry
the season this springnever fails. This house Lawang is extremely
dirty and erected on the top of a very narrow ridge, the rocky sides
of which are so steep that the only possible ascent is by ladders for
the last fifty feet. We were greeted by a few women and children
who directed us to the head house, which was barely large enough
to accommodate all the coolies ; it was annoying to find that all
the men, or any who could direct us, were away in the jungle
and not returning till sundown, so that this necessitated a wait
until the following day; the view from this house is impos-
ing; on one side of the ridge Mount Bengkarum stands out
clearly against the sky, on the other a fine stretch of country as far
as the eye could see looking towards Sarawak with ranges of hills
in succession. The Dyaks here area most unhealthy crowd, it was
difficult to find a man, woman, or child, who was not affected with
some form of skin disease or festering sores, despite the fine healthy
situation of the house (which I found to be about two thousand
feet above the sea level;) my Malay Mandor told me that he
considered it due to the fact that their hill paddy is poor stuff and
that they consume the entrails of any animal they kill.
There were a few heads hung in the apex of the roof of
the head house and immediately below was constructed a broad
shelf on which any youth sleeps who may wish to shew his
courage; a conspicuous object in all head houses of this district
is the “sekardoo,” this is a large hollow wooden cylinder formed
from the trunk of the Lune or other fairly light wood, varying from
fifteen to twenty feet in length and about two feet six inches in
diameter: over one end is tightly stretched a green hide from
which the hair has been removed, they are slung at an angle below
the floor of the head house, above which the hide covered end pro-
jects a few feet the one in this particular house was certainly over
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AND BENGKARUM MOUNTAIN. 47
twenty feet long and slung so that 1t was parallel with the slope of
the hill. I understood that when beaten it could be heard at
Gumbang, a distance of over twenty miles; formerly they were
used to warn the district of head hunting raids, they are now going
out of use. J was much amused in watching a number of young-
sters constructing a head house for themselves, building on slender
posts jammed into the crevices of the rocks on the steep side of the
hill over which it hung most perilously. .
There was no difficulty in finding a coolie to conduct us
the next morning although they were not certain of the whole route,
this we should learn at an intermediate house. An early start was
made ; from this altitude a heavy mist on the lowlands presented a
somewhat curious effect, all the ridges and hill tops standing out
clearly above it and isolated from each other like islands in a sea of
white silent billows; about noon we reached a very dirty and
dilapidated Dyak house, whence we obtained complete directions to
Bengkarum, the way being through varied and hilly country;
we soon commenced to ascend the lower slopes of the mountain ; at
four o’clock we reached Kampong Temong, a large Dyak house on a
spur of the mountain; we accommodated ourselves in the head
house, a very high awkward structure, but its airy position gave it
a decided advantage over the usually low building, in that it
was well above the most unpleasant association of a Dyak village,
the scent of the pigs! My first visitor was an elderly gentle-
man who obviously wished to impress us with his importance; this
was somewhat suddenly interrupted by the appearance of the Orang
Kaya himself, a fine, well made man; he told me on enquiring,
that the ascent was an easy matter and that near the top was
a large lanko (shelter ) in which we could pass the night, as the
ascent and descent could not be accomplished on the same day; he
also arranged to have coolies ready for me to start the next
morning. During the evening the elderly gentleman called, to say
that he had decided to go with me and asked what provision
we had made for water; as this seemed rather a serious matter,
I told him that we could carry enough with us in bamboos; at this
he gave a grunt and smile of superiority to which Dyaks at times
give way, I found later in the evening that it was his little
joke, there was plenty of water on top.
_ At eight o’clock the following morning all stores were packed and
with my friend as guide we commenced the ascent ; for some distance
we followed a small stream and on its widening out into a good
clear pool, I was astonished to see the elderly gentleman who was
leading, stop and divest himself of the few clothes he was wearing.
At my protest, he answered that it was a good place for a bath and
he had not been there for some time. The ascent is steep but
nowhere difficult, for a short distance the path is on a ridge formed
by a sandstone bed, which has been thrown over at right angles to
its plane of bedding. As it is not more than two feet wide and
either side is a drop of fifty to eighty feet, the passage across
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48 A TRI? TO A SOURCE OF THE SARAWAK BLiVEh
requires careful walking; the lanco was found to be commodious
and in good condition, thatched with split bamboo and arranged in
the usual manner; here we deposited our baggage and proceeded to
the summit, which was only a short distance.
Bengkarum Mountain, from the isolated position of this enor-
mous mass of sandstone, its sudden rise and the long ridge of
suinmit gradually increasing in height to terminate with precipitous
abruptness at its eastern extremity 1s a conspicuous feature in the
landscape for a radius of many miles; in plan it is roughly shaped
like a capital Y, the two ridges which form the fork bearing
towards the west; the ascent was made from the base of the
southernmost of these; the summit at this end which is the lower,
I found to have an elevation of 3,500 feet. It is a plateau of some
width, the surface being very irregular, worn into deep gullies and
depressions which in the overgrown jungle was well nigh impossible
to travel over; for some distance I followed a small stream which
forms the main drainage and flows to the fork, descending in
a series of cascades; the banks ave rich in filmy ferns and on
a nearly submerged sandbank was growing a small fern which
proved to be of considerable interest; being a new species which
necessitated the formation a new genus. The Dyaks here collect
large quantities of teardammar, these trees were very numerous and
of large size. As usual at this altitude the ground was cuvered
with Sphagnum, while the trunks and brushwood were also covered
with other species of mosses.
As I was about to descend from the edge of the summit
the magnificence of the view at once caught my attention; in the
foreground was the further limb of the mountain covered with
its deep green, the base thrown into deep shadow as the sun
declined, while the stream as it cascaded down the mountain side
gave life and contour; then beyond was range after range, in many
places irregular and broken, lit by the full sunshine and as the dis-
tance increased the green gave place to blue with the final haze of
the horizon. The conical summit of Mt. Nach could be seen to the
south-west well above all intermediate ranges.
While taking my evening meal the elderly gentleman asked for
the chicken bones and much to the general amusement scrunched
and swallowed them as well as any dog: the body of a small
bird which I had skinned he stewed in a long bamboo, adding
various herbs gathered in the neighbourhood. Some little excite-
ment was caused by his difficulty in recovering it from the depths
of this vessel, as he refused to split it. The night was bitterly cold
with rain and wind which made sleep quite out of the question for
the coolies, who had no extra clothing and tried as wellas they
could to keep warm by sitting over the fire, while I in woollen
garments was in nearly the same plight. The following morning
was spent collecting on the slopes and a fair number of insects were
captured before the sky clouded and the whole mountain was
covered in mist—which decided me to return to the Dyak Kampong.
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As my collections were now in excess of the botanical paper I had
brought with me, I resolved to make as hasty a return as possible
to Bidi by way of Siluas. The next morning on making our way
through the Dyaks paddy field, at the far entrance I came upon
a splendid trophy which these Dyaks had erected as an offering to
the spirits who guard the growth of their crops; it consisted of
small sized wooden models of all the implements they use in
agriculture as well as jars, parangs, and the common utensils of
a Dyak house. As part of the journey to Siluas has to be taken by
water from Pankalu Bobong, I was much disappointed on arriving
there to find that the only boat which would hold my coolies
and collections had left early that morning; a Malay trader here
provec to be an old acquaintance of my Mandor and kindly ordered
his son to try and hire one from a Dyak house a few miles
distant; after waiting two hours I was only able to procure a
small boat capable of holding four people, and as it was
uncertain whether another would be procurable for some days, I
decided to proceed in it, leaving my coolies to follow as soon as
they could.
A fair amount of Coffee is in cultivation here, doing well on the
alluvial soil, the trees are healthy and full of berries. At dusk when
nearing Siluas we overtook an old Dyak, whom I recognized as
having worked for me at Bidi. At his suggestion I decided to stop
the night at his house at Ire Lickie, which was convenient for
starting the next day; this was a far more comfortable structure
than is usual to find Dyaks living in-—it had three separate com-
partments, the best of which was at once cleared for my use, while
fresh eggs and rice were offered to me; as there were two other
Dyaks beside my old coolie resident in the house I expected to
obtain carriers easily the next morning, but on rising my hopes re-
ceived a check as two of the men were prostrate, with high fever.
This they told me was very prevalent in the neighbourhood of this
river. After much persuasion I induced the remaining coolie to ac-
company me to the next village which we reached after two hours
walk. This house Teberau consists of one long building and although
low, is commodious; the Dyaks are of a type strange to any I had
before met; it was more marked in the women who are of short
stature and decidedly pretty, in feature akin to Tamil women.
Without exception each woman was wearing a small plaited straw
cap about six inches in height, tapering slightly, decorated with
highly coloured geometric designs; in casual appearance there was
little difference between these caps and those worn by the © Bombay”’
shopkeepers at Colombo. The Dyaks were in rather an excited con-
dition as a Patrol of Dutch police had spent the night here and
were at this late hour about to make a start; they were conducting
back a Malay prisoner who had escaped from Sambas to Sarawak ;
here my coolie left me and it was only by promising the exorbitant
sum of two dollars each that I could persuade two others to take
his place as far as Bidi.
R. A. Soc., No. 60, I9QII.
50 A TRIP TO A SOURCE OF THE SARAWAK RIVER
At two o'clock we reached Pankalu Babong; from here the
distance was too great to reach Bidi the same day, which was
annoying after a comparatively short day’s walk, This was a large
well built Kampong, the Dyaks, some of them big strapping men,
are of the Jaguay type to which tribe they claim kinship although
they are Dutch subjects. A great deal of noise was being made in
the head house, caused by beating of gongs and gindans. On en-
quiring the reason I heard that some six months ago they had ob-
tained a heal, having been called out by the Government in an
expedition against some rebellious tribes at the ulu of the Sambas
river; the festivities with which they had feasted the head were
still being kept up by the younger members of the house; on ins-
pection I found the head had been divided, having been shared
with another house. It was lying in a small shelter which had
been mae to receive 1t, containing various offerings placed near it,
eggs, tobacco, etc.
At about nine o'clock I was very pleased to see my coolies
arrive. They had constructed araft and were thus enabled to follow
me quickly. I could now dispense with my engaged help at my
own rate of pay. An early start the next morning brought us to
Pangkalm Tipong at one o'clock and to Bidi an hour later.
I should like to conclude by saying a word respecting my ex-
cellent Malay Mandor Mahomet who was at all times ready to
carry out my wishes and assist in every possible way to the desired
end, and to Madoo the best of Krokong Dyaks.
A List of the more interesting ferns collected at
Mount Bengkarum and elsewhere.
Cyathea Sarawakensis, Hooker. Among the rocks by Tringos
Falls.
Matonia pectinata, R. Br. This is probably the form deseribed by
Mr. Copeland, as M. Foxworthyi. Mt. Bengkarum
at 3,500 feet, growing in large masses.
Gleichenia vestita, Bl. Mt. Bengkarum summit.
Nephrolepis acuminata, (Houtt) Kuhn. Mt. Bengkarum at 3,000
feet terrestrial.
Didymochlaena lunulata, Desv. Mt. Bengkarum at 2,500 feet.
Dryopteris calcarata, O. Ktze. Banks of Sarawak River near
Gumbang.
2 penangiana var. Calvescene, Christ. Mt. Bengkarum
at 3,000 feet.
i mindanaensis, Christ. Mt. Bengkarum at 2,500 feet.
83 athyriocarpa, Copeland. Mt. Bengkarum at 2,500 feet.
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Davallia pedata, Sm. Mt. Bengkarum at fron 2—38,000 feet.
©
Poritia philota, Hew.
Poritia philota, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. p. 346
(1874).
N. E. Borneo (coll. Godman and Salvin) ; Labuan (Wah-
nes); Sarawak: Kuching and Lundu (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution; Philippines, Sumatra and Jaya.
dit. Poritia plateni, Staud.
Poritia plateni, Staudinger, Iris, il. p. 104, pl. I. fig. 8
(1889),
Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Sarawak: uching—April to
June—(NSar. Mus.).
Described originally from Palawan; also recorded from
Sumatra.
Ho. Poninia pani. eke rue:
Ponta phama, H..H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Sees tondsp-
DOS) [Oe OMI, ames WS By (us)
Kina Balu (Waterstradt).
Druce also records an example from Java.
376. Poritia phalena, Hew.
Poritia phalena, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p.
344 (1874).
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Labuan, ¢ and 2 (Waterstradt) ; Sandakan, @ @ (Cator) ;
Sarawak: near Kuching, ¢ and @ (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Assam, Burma, Singapore and Sumatra.
Mr. Druce kindly identified one of the two females in the
Sarawak Museum.
Poritia pheretia, Hew.
Poritia pheretia, Hewitson, t. ¢. p. 346 (1874
Sandakan.
378. Poritia phalia, Hew.
Poritia phalia, Hewitson, t. ¢. p. 845, 6 (1874
Poritia potina, Hewitson, t. c. p. 347, @ (1874).
Simishina fulgens, ieee Entomologist, AIX. p. 12
(1886).
Borneo (Low—Brit. Mus.) ; Sarawak: Nuching—March to
July—(Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Venasserim, Malay Peninsula.
The two females in the Sarawak Museum approach the light
female figured by Bingham (Fauna Brit. Ind, Butterflies 1. p.
468) ; but the post discal row of spots on the upperside of
hind-wing, present in the Sarawak specimens, is absent. in
Bingham’s figure.
pilgmromud piilura, H. WH. Druce.
Ronug piilura, i. 1. Druce, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond. p.
Bios ple DON NE tio: aS 1(1895).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Sarawak: Kuching, é and @
(Sar. Mus.).
Druce described this species from a single specimen sent
him by Dr. Staudinger. There appears to be no other record
of its capture and the female is undescribed.
The Sarawak Museum examples were taken near Wuching
in March, May and October (1896) and one in August of this
year (1911).
I append a description,of the female.
Upperside. Orvange-yellow ground-colour; hind-marginal,
inner-marginal, and post-discal bands of dark fuscous-brown.
Fore-wing: eround- colour orange-yellow; a costal edging of
dark fuscous—entering the base of cell ‘only—extends along
two-thirds of the costa ‘and, traversing the disco-cellulars, meets
the third median nervule thus forming a short oblique post-
discal fascia. Apex and hind- marginal border, which widens
at anal angle, of the same dark fuscous. (sta):
Narathura anthelus, Distant, Rhop. Malay. pl. XXIII.
fig. 4, 9, et in parte p. 263 (1886).
Amblypodia anthelus var. saturatior, Staudinger, Iris,
Wools Ul, 795 122 (Ouse).
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Labuan (Low) ; Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution; Sumatra, Java and the Philippines.
Bethune-Baker records both forms (a brilliant morpho-blue
and a violet-blue) from Borneo; the two (¢ and @) in the
Sarawak Museum are violet-blue.
Injury. @,a very wide but shallow bite removing the hind-
marginal edge of the right wings, leaving the apex of fore-wing
and anal angle of hind-wing intact.
404, Arhopala anarte, Hew.'.
Amblypodia anarte, Hewitson, Cat. Lyc. B. M. p. 5, n. 20,
pedi tes. ko-and A. 6) (1862 ):.
Bethune-Baker gives Borneo as one of the habitats of this
species, and Druce (in 1873) mentions a female under this
name; H. H. Druce however, having examined this specimen,
writes in 1895 that this latter record is inaccurate, the specimen
beg A. agnis, Feld. nec A. anarte, Hew. As Bethune-Baker
mentions Druce as an authority for this species, it is possible
that he records it from Borneo on this ground; and that he
did not verify H. H. Druce’s correction; therefore I include
it in the Bornean list with a certain amount of hesitation.
Distribution: Myitta, Burma, Malacca and Macassar.
405. Arhopala achelous, Hew.
Amblypodia achelous, Hewitson, Cat. Lyc. B. M. p. 7, n.
mpl Ve hes: 7, 8, ¢ (1862).
Labuan (Low): Matang, Santubong and Kuching (Sar.
Mus.).
Also recorded from Singapore.
Injury. 6, a long jagged bite removing anal angle of left
fore-wing and apical half of hind-margin of left hind-wing.
406. Arhopala havilandi, Bethune-Baker.
Arhopala havilandi, Bethune-Baker, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.
peoOoo, pl DOOe ties 36, 9 2 (1896).
Mt. Kina Balu only.
407. Arhopala brookei, Bethune-Baker.
Arhopala brookei, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond.
Wolk ay Tp: 82 ple otis. 29, ¢ (1903).
Pulo Laut.
Confined to Borneo.
Bethune-Baker (/. c.) remarks “one specimen from Pulo
Laut in which the brown surface below is quite lustrous and
the markings of the primaries are much more distinct.”
i. Snellen records A. anarte, Hewitson, from Billiton. He gives Narathura
agnis, Distant (Rhop. Malay. p. 273) as a synonym of this species.
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 191T,
130 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO.
408. Arhopala aroa, Hew.
Amblypodia aroa, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 13,
Te OO), volley IBLE fig, a5 (1862).
Amblypodia pryert, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 121
(1892)
Sandakan (Pryer); Trusan and Sarawak (Everett); Kusin
hills, near Banting, Santubong, Mt. Matang, Bau and Kuching
(Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Malaya—from Burma to New Guinea.
The Sarawak males show two shades of purple, one a lustre-
less brown-purple, the other a blue-purple approaching the
brilhant ee of achelous, Hew.
Injury. _a bite out of anal angle of right fore-wing and
another out of anal angle of hind-wing, just missing the tail.
409. Arhopala elopura, H. H. Druce.
Arhopala elopura, H. H. Druce, Ent. Mo. Mag. ser, 2. Vol.
V. p. 9. (1894).
Sandakan (Pryer); Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt).
Confined to Borneo.
Bethune-Baker remarks “ this is evidently one of the com-
monest species of the genus in Borneo; ” however the Sarawak
collection has yet to meet with it.
410. Arhopala pseudomuta, Staud.
Amblypodia pseudomuta, Staudinger, Iris, Vol. IL. p. 12:
(L8SoN"
Borneo.
Also recorded from Malacca and Sumatra.
Bethune-Baker makes a curiously contradictory statement in
regard to this species and A. raffles. Of rafflesii he says,
“This species is nearest pseudomuta, Staudinger, but can ‘be
recognised at once by its much brighter, lighter, and bluer
COOP Ses os: ” Of pseudomuta he says, ** This species may
be ‘recognised from raflesii, de Nicéville, by its larger size
and bluer colour.” His description and figure give a dull
violet for pseudomuta.
411. Arhopala atosia, Hewitson.
Amblypodia atosia, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep.; inetgp: 9,
Me Site Di We shest Shand Oo. eGliseo)e
ae aricia, Staudinger, Ins, Vol. Th pe aie
its: 5 (1889). ,
Kuching, a Matang, Tambak and Pulo Laut (Sar. Mus.)
Distwabatione Malaya.
Four females present slight variation in the upperside mar-
ginal border of the hind-wing; in one the broad costal margin
continttes very nearly as br oad along the hind-margin ; in two
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others it is less; and in a third the broad costal margin remains,
but the hind-marginal border is reduced to a mere line. The
undersides are constant.
412. Arhopala epimuta, Moore (nec Hew.).
Amblypodia epimuta, Moore, Cat. Lep. E., I. C. p. 42
857).
Arhopala antimuta, de Nicéville, Butt. Ind. Vol. IT.
meer? (1890).
Arhopala atosia? H. H. Druce, Proce. Zool. Soc. Lond. p.
589 (1895).
Borneo (Low); Sandakan (Pryer); Labuan (Low); San-
tubong, Kuching, Serambu, Bau. Paku (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Mergui, Tenasserim and Malay Peninsula.
Very common in Sarawak. The females present the same
variation noticed in female atosia.
Bethune-Baker says this species is so like atosia that prac-
tically the only difference is the absence of tails in epimuta
and the presence of them in atosia. Druce records under
“atosia?,” some Bornean specimens which agree exactly with
Hewitson’s description except that they are tailless, so I con-
clude they were really epimuta.
413. Arhopala moolaiana, Moore.
Narathura moolaiana, Mocre, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. p.
835 (1878).
Amblypodia epimuta, Hewitson (nec Moore), Cat. ak
Paves. bin Si, pl. Vl fiss: 59 and 60, 9 (1862)
Arhopala pastorella, Doherty, Journ. As, Soc. Beng. Vol.
bay (LL pt: 2)p. £18) pl. X XIN. fig. 12 (1889).
Arhopala agelastus, de Nicéville, Butt. Ind. Vol. TTT. p-
278 (1890),
Kuching, Sarawak (Sar. Mus.). The first record from
Borneo.
Distribution: India, Burma and Malay Peninsula.
414. Arhopala amphimuta, Feld.
Amblypodia amphimuta, Felder, Wien. ent. Monatsch. iv.
p- 396 (1860).
Sandakan (Pryer).
Also recorded from Malacca.
415. Arhopala asia, de Nicév.
Arhopala asia, de Nicéville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soe.
Mol VE pesca ple hie. 16. 96: (@k892)-
te (Waterstradt); Trusan, Quop, Kuching (Sar.
us.).
Distribution: Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
Bethune-Baker notices that Bornean specimens are some-
what bluer and darker than the type.
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 191.
132 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO.
416. Arhopala agesilaus, Staud.
Amblypodia agesilaus, Staudinger, Iris, Vol. Il. p. 127,
Taf. I. fig. 16 (nec 17) (1889).
Kuching and Quop (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Malaya—Malay Peninsula, Nias Island, Su-
matra, Palawan and Mindanao.
Two Sarawak examples have the costal spot of the hind-
wings very much reduced, suggesting a transition to the next
species (A. catori) which is characterized by the complete
absence of this costal spot.
But for the differences in genitalia recorded by Bethune-
| Baker I should be inclined to regard catori as a variety only
| of agesilaus.
417. Arhopala catori, Bethune-Baker.
Arhopala catori, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond.
Vol. X VIL. p. 93, pl. IL. figs 1100S Gee
8a (1903).
Borneo and Bilit (Bethune-Baker) ; Mt. Marapok, British
North Borneo and Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Also recorded from Palawan.
418. Arhopala similis, H. H. Druce.*
Arhopala similis, H. H. Druce, Proce. Zool. Soe. Lond. p.
592 (1895).
Arhopala anila, de Nicéville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Vol.
LXIV. pt. 2, p. 469 (4895). || jy) eee
Sandakan (Pryer); Kuching and Mt. Penrissen (Sar.
Mus.).
Distribution: Selangor and Sumatra.
_ Only three examples in the Sarawak Museum—two taken
in August 1896 and the third in May 1899.
419. Arhopala agesias, Hew.
Amblypodia agesias, Hewitson, Cat. Lyc. B. M. p. 2, n.
49, pl. VI. figs. 55 and 56 (1862).
Sandakan (Pryer) ; Mt. Kina Balu; Kuching (Sar. Mus.) ;
Pulo Laut.?
Distribution: Malacca and Sumatra.
419a. Arhopala agesias ovomaculata, Hew.
Amblypodia ovomaculata, Hewitson, Il]. Diurn. Lep.
Suppl. p. 22, no. 103, pl. suppl. VIII. figs. 66 and 67
(1878).
1. ‘‘ This is the variety a of A.agesiase,(Hew.)’’—Shelford Journ ctr. Br.
Roy. As, Scc No. 35. p. 34. 1901.
2. Bethune-Baker gives Pulo Laut as a habitat for this species, but he
describes this locality as ‘a small island off New Guinea’’ probably a mistake
for the well known island of Pulo Laut off the South-East coast of Borneo.
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Arhopala agesias var. kinabala, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool.
moe ond. p. 592 (1895).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Labuan (Low); Mt. Iina-
batangan, ulu Lawas, Mt. Matang (Sar. Mus.).
Apparently a mountain form of agesias.
Recorded from Battak Mountains, Sumatra.
420. Arhopala avatha, de Nicév.
Arrhopala avatha, de Nicéville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist.
pocevolk X. pelts, 1/23) pl. |. fic 34, 3 (1896) :
Sarawak. Male with four sub-costal nervules;
tuft of hair on underside of inner
margin of fore-wing. 9. Neocheritra.
A? Outer tail from end of first median nervule
the longer. Both sexes with three sub-costal
nervules.
F* Hind-wing of male with small tuft of
hairs at base of costal interspace. _ 10. Cheritra.
F° Fore-wing of male with glandular patch
of scales in centre. 11. Ritra.
Genus, Zevtus, de Niceév.
491. Zeltus etolus, Fab.
Papilio etolus, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. Vol. Il. p. 66, n.
620 (1787).
Hypolycaena amasa, Hewitson, UL Diurn. Lep. p. o1, n.
8 (1865)...
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Labuan (Low) ; Marapok
Mts., Banting, Santubong, Mt. Matang, Quop and Kuching
(Sar. Mus.) ; 8S. W. Borneo (Ind. Mus.).
Distribution: India and Malaya.
1. Distant in describing this genus states that it has four sub-costal
nervules ; but Druce in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 679 (1896) pointed out that
the male has but two and the female three. ~
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 1911.
154 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO,
Taken all the year round in Sarawak; only one female in a
series of twenty specimens in the Sarawak Museum. ‘The
undersides vary a good deal in the intensity of the brown
colouring and the transverse line in most of the examples be-
fore me is much straighter than in the Indian example figured
by de Niceville in Butterflies of India.
Injury. &, small asymmetrical bite removing the two inner
tails and part of the anal angle of right hind-wing.
Genus, Puruisa, Distant.
492. Purlisa gigantea, Distant. (Fig. 4, 3).
. Jolaus (Purlisa) giganteus, Distant, Ent. Mo. Mag. Vol.
NaVillle p>) Cpe je
id Rhop. Malay. p. 250, pl. XXI. fig. 28, 9 (1885).
Purlisa giganteus, Shelford, Journ. Roy, As. Soc. Str.
Br. Non 35,60. coe oO ou:
Sarawak (coll. Druce) ; Mt Matang—3,200 ft. (Sar. Mus.).
Also recorded from Penang.
Evidently a rare species. Distant records a single specimen
from Penang and one unlocalised example in the collection of
Mr. F. Moore. Druce records a single female from Sarawak ;
and there is a pair in the Sarawak “Museum, taken in March
1898 and April 1902 on the summit of Mt. Matang. In regard
to the position of this genus, Distant placed it between Cheri-
tra and Neomyrina ; de Nicéville referred it to his Thecla
(Group, placing it next to Tajuria. Druce suggested it was
more likely to be related to Cheritra, and the discovery of the
male with secondary sexual characters helps to bear this sn
De Nicéville judged from Distant’s figure that the tails wer
not long enough for inclusion in his Wyrina (rroup, hence ee
reason for reference to the Thecla (rroup.
However the inner tails of the Sarawak examples reach the
required half-inch, so I include it now in the Myrina (Cheri-
traria, mihi) Group.
Genus, Manro, de Nicey.
4 493. Manto martina, Hew.
Myrina martina, Hewitson, Tl. Diurn. Lep. Lye. Suppl.
wo, tee ece Osu le Glsod))e
1. While for the general appearance of this species the figure is good, no
attention should be paid to the neuration depicted. as it unfortunately suffers
from the over-zealous attentions of the reproducer.
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A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO. 155
Mt. Nina Balu (Waterstradt) ; iou* (Hanitsch) ; Labuan
(Low and Waterstradt); Limbang, Matang, Kuching and
Pangga (Sar. Mus.) ; South Borneo (Ind. Mus.).
Distribution: Burma, Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
Genus, Mantorpes, H. H. Druce.
494. Mantoides licinius, H. H. Druce.
Mantoides licinius, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.
paont pe eX fies. 106, lio (1896).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt and Everett) ; Mt. Santubong
and Mt. Matang (Sar. Mus.).
Only recorded from Borneo.
The single female in the Sarawak Museum has the dark anal
markings of the hind-wing somewhat heavier than in the
female figured by Mr. Druce.
Injury. é&, small piece from anal angle of right hind-wing
remoying the inner tail.
Genus, Vircarina, H. H. Druce.
495. Virgarina scopula, Druce.
| Sithon scopula, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 353
pre xX XTETS fie. (2 (1873).
Sandakan (Elwes); Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Labuan
(Low and Waterstiadt); Baram, Mt. Lingga and Kuching
(Sar. Mus.).
Only recorded from Borneo.
Injury. @, large asymmetrical bite removing the anal
region of right hind-wing and part of the same of the iett
hind-wing. |
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Genus, THrix, Doherty.
496. Thrix gama, Dist.
Neocheritra gama, Distant, Rhop. Malay. p. 462, fig. 128,
9 (1886).
Thrix gama, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 678,
pis MOXOX Ts fier 13. ¢; (1896).
Labuan (Waterstradt).
Recorded from Penang and Sumatra.
Genus, CHARANA, de Nicév.
ie)
497. Charana splendida, n. sp. (Fig. 3, ¢).
Charana mandarinus, H. H. Druce, nec Hewitson, Proe.
Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 676, 2 (1895).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
1. In the account of his expedition to Mt. Kina Balu in March 1899 (Journ.
Str. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 34. 1900, pp. 82-84.), Dr. Hanitsch records the
capture of 47 species of Rhopalocera of which only 4 were Lycaenidae— collected
during ten days.
R. A. Soc., No. 60, I9II.
156 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO.
Druce records a single female which differs from the Indian
species C. mandarinus, Hew., “by having a greater area of
white on the hind-wing above and by the ‘Yellow on the hind-
wing below being nearly all replaced by white; the black an-
cular markings and spots towards the anal angle are larger and
more prominent, so it may possibly represent a different species,
but until the male is discovered it is impossible to be certain.”
(/. ¢.).
A fine male was taken near Kuching in March 1911, which
differs from the male mandarinus in a similar way, so that I
have adopted Mr. Druce’s suggestion and proposed a new name
for the Bornean form.
The male differs from Hewitson’s species on the upperside
in the following points:—(i) on the upperside of fore-wing
the blue area does not extend as far up the cell as depicted in
de Nicéville’s figure,' nor does it reach the first median ner-
vule?; (ii) de Nicéville’s figure shows a black mark below the
first median nervule which is totally absent in splendida; (ii1)
on the underside of fore-wing the post-discal band is succeeded
by a broad hind-marginal band of uniform rufous brown, un-
relieved by a dark stbmarginal line as figured by de Nicéville
for mandarinus; (iv) the anal region of the hind-wing is white,
not yellow (thus agreeing w ith Druce’s description of the
female) and (vy) ) the black markings of anal region are dis-
tinctly heavier, that nearest the inner-margin being a straight
bar, not irregular as shown in de Nicéville’s figure.
Injury. é, a small triangular excision at anal angle of
right hind-wing removing the “outer tail. (Vide fig. Ne
Charana? abnormis, sp. n. (Fig. 10).
Mate. Upperside. Dark fuscous. Fore-wing: including
cilia, uniform dark fuscous. Hind-wing: dark fuscous, except
for large anal region opalescent white, extending from 3rd
median nervule to inner margin and bordered by. dark ante-
ciliary line. Anal angle lobate. Cilia white round anal half,
mixed with fuscous for remainder.
Underside. Fore-wing: ochreous, paler towards inner mar-
gin, darker along hind-margin and at anal angle. Hind-wing:
white, spotted with dark brown. Broadly ochreous along basal
half of costa, succeeded by a large quadrate ochreous spot
reaching the sub-costal nervure, followed by a small ochrecus
brown spot just before the apex, which forms the first of a
post-discal row; the second spot immediately below it, is larger,
the third transverse, the fourth, fifth and sixth smaller and
darker, sloped towards the inner margin; the seventh V-shaped
L;.;,De Nicéville, Butterflies of India. Vol, ili pl., XXVUI fig. 222, male.
2. Hewitson says of this blue region ‘‘ bounded by the inner margin and
the first median nervule.’’ (III Diurn. Lep., p. 28, n. 4. 1863).
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and shifted outwards, the eighth elongate sloping upwards to
inner margin. A spot at base of median nervure; another
just beyond the cell; a large quadrate dark brown spot below
Ist median nervule followed by another nearer the base on the
inner margin; a large dark spot on anal lobe, a rough dark
line on each side; a large dark spot (exterior to. post-discal
row) between Ist and 2nd median nervules; ochreous brown
spots along hind-margin above 3rd median nervule to apex.
Black anteciliary line. Abdomen below ochreous; above dark
fuscous. |
Hap. al. 6,34 mm.
Mr. Druce kindly examined this specimen for me and re-
ported it as “probably new and when perfect has long tails
and comes into the Manto Group of genera—most likely new
genus. Your specimen seems to be a ¢” (in litt. March,
Lily, +
The specimen before me has no secondary sexual characters.
Genus, JACOONA, Distant.
Jacoona jusana, H. H. Druce.
Jacoona jusana, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p.
OO ole MOM 2 tio 3... 6 (1895).
Sandakan (coll. Druce) ; Labuan (Waterstradt) ; Limbang
and Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Only recorded from Borneo.
Closely allied to J. anasuja, Felder (from Malay Peninsula
and Sumatra), and to the next species (J. metasuja, H. H.
Druce) ; and from an examination of the figures and descrip-
tions of these three species, one might suggest that they are but
local races of one species. Thus anasuja occurs in the Malay
Peninsula and Sumatra; jusana and metasuja in Borneo, the
former from Sandakan to Sarawak and the latter on Mt. Kina
Balu only. A male in the Sarawak Museum has a thin blue
apical band intermediate in width between these last two
species.
Injuries. (1) ¢, both tails cut off and neat circular bite
removing the large anal spot on left hind-wing. (ii) @, large
bite diagonally across the left hind-wing removing more than
half the wing.
Jacoona metasuja, H. H. Druce.
Jacoona metasuja, H. H. Druce, /. c. p. 609, pl. XXXIV.
my 4b) (ONS)
1. A fine male has just been captured (October 1911) on Mt. Klingkang,
Sarawak; it has two short tails, (like the female Thamala miniata, Moore, figured
by de Nicéville in Butterflies of India, Vol. IIL, pl. XXVIII, fig. 213), the outer
of which from the 1st median nervule is 6 mm. long, the inner from sub-median
nervure is5mm. This feature together with certain peculiarities of the neu-
ration will iu all probability necessitate the founding of a new genus as Mr.
Druce suggests ; this point I hope to settle in the near future.
R. A. Soc., No. 60, I91T.
158 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO,
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt).
As yet unrecorded elsewhere.
Genus, NEOCHERITRA, Distant.
501. Neocheritra amrita, Feld.
Myrina amrita, Felder, Wien. ent. Monatsch. Vol. IV.
p. 395 (1860).
Neocheritra theodora, H. H. Druce, Ent. Mo. Mag. Vol.
XXIL. p. 155 (1885).
Labuan (Low and Wahnes); Kuching (Ind. Mus.); S. E.
Borneo, near Banjarmasin (Wahnes).
Distribution; Malay Peninsula, Nias Island, Billiton and
Sumatra.
Var. theodora, H. H. Druce, differs from the type by the
blue on upperside of male being rather more extensive and of
a paler greenish shade. Jtecorded from Sandakan (Pryer) and
Labuan (Waterstradt).
The Sarawak Museum examples are from Mt. Santubong
and IXuching and are all referable to this variety.
Injuries. (1) 6, neat circular excision removing inner tail
of left hind-wing. (41) 6, both tails evenly cut ; short. (ii1)
?, an uneven notch out of hind- margin of left fore- -wing near
the apex and inner tail of left hind-wing cut off.
502. Neocheritra teunga, Grose-Smith.
Sithon teunga, Grose-Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
62. Vole TEE poli Ls3o)
Mt. Kina Balu (Whitehead).
Genus, CHEerrrra, Moore.
503. Chermtra freja. Fab.
Hesperia freja, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. III. p. 263 (1798).
Cheritra freja var. ochracea, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool.
Soc. Lond. p. 610 (1895).
Sandakan (Pryer); Labuan (Low and Waterstradt); Ku-
ching, Satap, Bau (Sar. Mus.); S. W. Borneo (Ind. Mus.) ;
Sarawak, 8. E. Borneo (Druce).
Druce differentiates a variety “ from the continental Indian
form by the whole of the fore-wing as well as the costal half
of the hind-wing below being ochraceous, and by the inner
black band towards the anal angle being much broader and
less broken.”
De Niceville describes the Indian form thus: “ Underside of
fore-wing and outer margin anteriorly of hind-wing washed
with ochraceous.” A long series in the Sarawak “Museum
shows forms varying from “grey-ochraceous to ochraceous and
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the sub-anal markings vary in heaviness and degrees of con-
tinuity. It seems therefore unnecessary to give a name to
the extreme form since all intermediate forms occur in the
same locality.
Distribution: India to Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra
and Java.
Injuries. (i) é, both tails asymmetrically cut short. (11)
8, left and (iii) ¢, right tail cut short.
504. Cheritra pallida, Druce.
Sithon pallida, Druce, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 352, pl.
PONONG io. 23S Sia).
Sandakan (Pryer); Labuan (Low).
Only recorded from Borneo.
Mr. H. H. Druce has examined the type of this species and
considers it a distinct species, but nearly allied to C. freja,
Fab.
Genus, Rirra, de Nicéy.
505. Mitra aurea, Druce.
Sithon aurea, Druce, 7. c. p. 852, pl. XX XIII. fig. 1, ¢
(1873).
hivtra aurea, A. H. Druce, op. cit. p. 610, 29 (1895).
Labuan (Low and Waterstradt); North Borneo, Banting
and Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Also recorded from Perak and Sumatra. 3
The Sarawak Museum specimens were taken in February,
May, June, and from August to November; the females rather
more commonly.
Injuries. (i) 68, neat symmetrical excision in each hind-
wing removing both long tails. (ji) @, small symmetrical
bite from anal end of inner margin of both hind-wings and a
small piece out of hind-margin of right fore-wing. (ill-iv)
2, with one tail cut out. (v-vii) 38, with one tail cut short
or excised.
rroup 4. HORAGARIA.*
_ Genus, Horaca, Moore.
506. IZoraga albistigmata, n. sp.
Maur. Upperside. Dark fuscous, with small well-defined
white discal patch in fore-wing, and very faint white line
bordering anal angle of hind-wing; anal lobe touched with blue,
tails white-tipped. Underside. Rich ochreous. Fore-wing:
sharply defined white discal patch, widest across the base of
“1. De Nicéville assigned seven genera to this grovp (characterised by
the presence of three tails,) of which six are found in Borneo (the seventh,
Rathinda, Moore, being confined to India and Ceylon).
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the 2nd and 3rd median nervules; whitish along inner margin;
a dark anteciliary line. //ind-wing. A straight dark line
from centre of costa across wing to 2nd median neryule, thence
edged with metallic green across to the inner margin. ‘Three
spots at anal angle black inwardly edged with metallic green,
the central spot is large and dusted with white scales, Dark
anteciliary line as in fore-wing. Cilia whitish.
Hap. al, 21 mm.
Type, & (and only known specimen) Madihit hills, Sara-
wak (Sar. Mus.).
Differs from any //oraga I have seen in the absence of any
blue tint on the upperside; resembles amethystus mm having no
white band in the hind-wing below, but the ground-colour is
totally different.
Horaga corniculum, H. H. Druce.
Horaga corniculum, H. H. Druce, op. cit. p. 611, pl.
XX e837; eo Ne
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Malinau and Mt. Matang—
2000 ft. (Sar. Mus.).
Confined to Borneo.
Allied to the Javan species, //. holothura, Swinhoe. A male
in the Sarawak Museum differs slightly from Druce’s figure in
having the blue reduced and the fuscous margins wider on
the upperside of hind-wing; the other male has the white
discal patch of the fore-wing just extending below the first
median nervule, and on the underside the white band is much
constricted.
Horaga afinis, H. H. Druce.
Horaga afinis, H. WH. Druce, t. c. p. 611, ply MX See
Os ASI).
ACO (naueatn aed ainmaeen (Waterstradt) ; Madihit (Sar.
Mus.).
Confined to Borneo.
Druce notes a variation from Kina Balu in which the lower
half of the white discal spot on the fore-wing above is rather
larger than in the type, and the blue area is rather paler; the
single example in the Sarawak Museum has this first charac-
teristic. This species is easily distinguished from cornicul/um
by having the fore-wings much more pointed.
Horaga amethystus, H. H. Druce.
Horaga amethystus, H. H. Druce, op. cit. p. 118, pl. XL.
figs. 4, 5, 6 and @ (1902).
British North Borneo (W. B. Pryer) ; near Kuching, August
1911 (Sar. Mus.).
A fine female of this rare species, which agrees well with
Mr, Druce’s description and figure.
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Horaga maenala, Hew.
Myrina maenala, Hewitson, Ul. Diurn. Lep. Lye.
(euppl.) p. 7, pl. IT. figs. $5, 86, (1869).
Borneo (Hewitson—British Museum).
Genus, SEMANGA, Distant.
Semanga superba,’ Druce.
Tlerda? superba, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. p. 350,
pik MMI. fre. 11, OS CS ¥ey,
Semanga superba, H. H. Druce, op. eit. p. 612, 6 (1895).
Labuan (Low and Waterstradt); Mt. Matang—3000 ft.
(Sar. Mus.).
Distant records it from Malacca, Fruhstorfer from Java,
and de Nicéville from Sumatra.
Genus, CATAPOECILMA, Butler.
Catapoectilma bubases, Hewitson.
Hypochrysops bubases, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag. Vol.
mip. 38. (1875).
Catapoecilma? bubases, Distant, Rhop. Malay. p. 459. pl.
XLIV. fig 26 (1882).
Quop (Sar. Mus.).
‘Lhe only other recorded example of this species comes from
Malacca and is now in the British Museum.
The single example in the Sarawak Museum agrees exactly
with the underside figured by Distant in Lhopalocera
Malayana, but on the upperside differs in having shghtly
broader fuscous margins in the fore-wing, more so in the hind-
wing which is somewhat generally suffused with fuscous.
Distant placed this species in the genus Catapoecilma with
considerable doubt, having noted that the type possessed but
two tails. ‘The Sarawak example has a third short filamentous
tail at the end of the submedian nervure (the two other tails
are from: first and second median nervules) I have care-
fully compared the neuration with that of C. elegans, and I
have no doubt that its inclusion in this genus is correct.
Catapoecilma elegans, Druce.
Hypochrysops elegans, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p.
Sandakan (Pryer); Labuan (Low and Waterstradt) ; Ker-
pok hills and Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution; India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Sumatra
(elegans major, Druce) ; Nias Island (elegans niasana, Fruh-
storfer).
1. Druce describes the male as havingsbut two tails ; the female is normal
in this respect, having three tails.
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A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO,
It seems to be a local species in Sarawak, only a single female
having found her way to the Sarawak Museum previous to
1909. Since then some 20 or 30 have been taken in one
locality near Kuching, but curiously enough only one male
among them.
The females vary somewhat in the extent of blue on upper-
side of hind-wing; in some, reaching almost to hind-margin,
in others almost obsolete.
Injury. 2, asmall piece out of each hind-wing just above
the anal angle, probably the result of one bite when the insect
was at rest with wings closed.
Genus, BipuaNnpDA, Distant.
Biduanda thesmia, Hew.
Myrina thesmia, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p.
pl. XIV. figs. 25-27 (1863)
Drupadia es Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol.
PX ot. 25 pear (1884).
Labuan (Low and Wahnes); Sarawak (Wallace) ; Lawas,
ulu Limbang, Simanggang, Sadong, Mt. Matang and Kuching
(Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Burma, Malay Peninsula, Nias, Sumatra and
Palawan.
dl4a. Var. unicolor, Staudinger.
ol
D.
Sithon thesmia var. wnicolor, Staud., Iris, Il. p. 111,
(1889). |
Staudinger describes this variety as differmg from the
typical form in the underside b eing dull reddish brown in place
of rufous orange. Druce reports this form as common in
Borneo and gives the following localities for it :—
Sandakan (Pryer) ; Nudat (Mus. Druce) ; Mt. Kina Balu
(Waterstradt) ; Labuan (Low).
A long series in the Sarawak Museum shows a complete
gradation between the two forms, the typical form being per-
haps predominant. I have taken both’ forms in one day on
Sadong hill. The majority of males are without the dark
orange discal patch on upperside of fore-wing.
Injury. 6, a small piece from anal angle of the right
hind-wing.
Biduanda estella, Hew.
Sithon estella, Hewitson, Il. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 31,
EVE ess 5 Oh ole (GlS63)e
Biduanda estella, var. H. H. Druce, Proce. Zool. Soe.
Lond. p. 614 (1895).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt).
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Distribution: Sumatra and Billiton.’
Druce records a pair from Kina Balu “ which agree well with
. 5 a ~ = pe wes 35
Hewitson’s types from Sumatra, but are somewhat larger.
516. Biduanda thaenia, H. H. Druce.
Biduanda thaenia, H. H. Druce, /. c. p. 614, pl. XXXATV.
fiz. 2, 2° (1895).
Sandakan (Pryer—coll. Godman and Salvin). »
The type specimen is noted as unique; and the male un-
known.
517. Biduanda cinesia, Hew.
Myrina cinesia, (3 nec 2) Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep.
Lye. p. 29, pl. XIII. figs. 18, 19 (1863).
Biduanda cinesia, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond.
paolo (1695).
Sandakan (Pryer) ; Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Sarawak
(Hewitson) ; Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Confined to Borneo.
Injury. 6, middle tail bitten out of right hind-wing.
d18. Biduanda cineas, Grose-Smith.
Sithon cineas, Grose-Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6)
Wolke iit p, 318 (13839).
Mt. Kina Balu (Whitehead).
519. Biduanda hewitsonu, H. H. Druce.
Myrina cinesia, 2, Hewitson, Il. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 29,
pl eis ie 20 (1863) .
Biduanda hewitsonu, 9, H. H. Druce, Proce. Zool. Soe.
Konda p. bilo (1395) ef op. cit. p. 679, pl. XX XI. fig.
(1896).
Sandakan (Pryer and Cator) ; Labuan (Waterstradt) ; Ku-
ching and Mt. Matang—3,200 ft. (Sar. Mus.).
Confined to Borneo, —
Injuries. (1) 6, middle tail bitten off right hind-wing.
(11) ¢, middle tail of right hind-wing bitten out. (ii-ix)
2, the middle tail in one wing either bitten out or cut off
short. (x) 2, both tails symmetrically bitten out. (x1)
2, both tails symmetrically cut short.
1. Mr. P.C.T. Snellen records 22 Lycaenidae from the Island of Billiton, of
which only the following three are not found in Borneo :— Niphanda tessellata,
Moore, Myrina nivea, Godman, (both Malay Peninsula species) and Sithon
(Drupadia) lisias, Fabricius, from India and Tenasserim.
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519a. Biduanda hewitsenu var. parva, nov.
520,
Dele
Or
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Cas)
Or
CaN)
(Sy)
Mate. Upperside. Fore-wing: outer half of wing dark
brown fuscous; basal region, costa and inner margin narrowly
fuscous; leaving small sub-discal patch of dull violet. /Zind-
wing: whole of basal and discal region—from costa to inner
margin—fuscous, leaving small touch of dull violet between
nervules beyond cell; hind-marginal and anal markings as in
type form.
Underside: as in type form.
FemMaAue. Differs from type form in size and reduction of
white sub-anal band and white anal markings on upperside of
hind-wing, which are nearly obsolete.
Hap. al. 6 and @, 24 mm. Expanse of average male and
female of type form in Sarawak Museum= 6 29 mm, 2 33
mm; Druce gives measurements: 6 1:4 to 1:3 inch, 2 1°5 to
IIE ravelay,
Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
The coupling together of these specimens as male and female
of the same variety is purely guess-work. ‘The single male was
taken in June 1900 and the two females in October 1909,
Biduanda staudingerit, H. H. Druee.
Biduanda staudingeri, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.
p. 615, pl. XXXIV. figs. 5 ¢ 376. 2 esa
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt).
Biduanda similis, H. H. Druce.
Biduanda similis, H. H. Druce, t. c. p. 616 (1895).
Borneo (coll. Druce).
Biduanda imitata, H. H. Druce.
Biduanda imiata, Hi. HH. Druce, ¢. 6) poi eee
Borneo (coll. Druce).
Genus, MarMessus, Hubn.
Marmessus moorei, Dist.
Sithon moorei, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5. Vol.
X. p. 246 (1882).
Marmessus boisduvalti var. atra, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool.
Soc. Womde peo 9 (ekso oye
Sandakan (Pryer) ; Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Lawas and
Trusan (Everett) ; Labuan (Low and Waterstradt) ; (?) Daat
Island (Distant) ; North Borneo, Lawas, Limbang, Kuching,
Tegora and Lundu (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
I beheve boisduvalii and moorei are but local races cf one
species which should be known as moorei (the older name).
The two races may be distinguished thus :—
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(i) hind-wing underside markings composed of black lnes
enclosing white areas
= continental race, mooret boisduvali.
(11) hind-wing underside markings deep black
= insular race, moorei mooret.
boisduvalui var. atra, Druce, I take to be a variety of the in-
sular race moorei mooret, characterised by an orange discal
patch on upperside of fore-wing. ‘This is nicely demonstrated
by a long series of males and females in the Sarawak Museum,
im which the prominent orange discal patch of var. atra becomes
smaller and smaller reaching the final stage of obsolescence in
typical moorei. The undersides are exactly similar in all
specimens male and female.
If this view is correct, this species affords a parallet case of
variation to that of Biduanda thesmia, (see p. 162).
Injuries. (1) ¢, anal angle of right hind-wing bitten off.
(11) 8, small symmetrical bite across the anal angle of hind-
wings removing both tails.
524. Marmessus surindra H. H. Druce.
Marmcessus surindra, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.
Delp MOOT VS tie. 7, 7d (1895).
Sandakan (Pryer); Kinabatangan and Limhang (Sar.
Mus:)).
524a. Marmessus surindra, var. albula, H. H. Druce.
vale, woe, lal, Jal; IDianee is 0s Oley Ake an
Sandakan (Pryer); Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt); S. E.
Borneo (Wahnes).
This variety is also noticed from Palawan.
Genus, EKooxyniprs, de Nicéville.
525. Hooxylides tharis, Hiibner.
Oxylides tharis, Hubn., Zutr. exot. Schmett. figs. 883,
884+ (1837).
Sandakan; Mt. Kina Balu (Everett and Waterstradt) ;
Trusan (Everett) : ; Labuan (Low); Sarawak (Staudinger) ;
Lawas, Trusan, Limbang, Samarahan, Mt. Penrissen—3,300
ioe Kuching and Lundu (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: India to Malaya—(Peninsula, Nias Island,
Billiton, Stmatra and Java).
Very common in Sarawak all the year round.
Injuries. (i) 6, middle tails symmetrically cut off. (ii-
11) ¢, same absent ‘from left hind-wing. (iv) 6, from right
hind-wing. (v) cut short in left hind- wing and bitten out in
right. (vi) @, both tails symmetrically ‘bitten out. (vil)
6, large symmetrical bite removing the whole of anal region
of both hind-wings.
aR, A, Soe., No. 60, I9II.
166 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO.
526. Hooxrylides etias, Distant and Pryer.
I ypolycaena elias, Distant and Pryer, Ann. Mag. Nat.
Hist. (i). Vol XX a; 26a tse:
Hooaylides etias, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p.
680, pl. KL fig.-12, 6 (1896).
Sandakan (Pryer and Cator); Mt. Kina Balu (Water-
stradt) ; Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Confined to Borneo.
‘The above two species are easily differentiated by the follow-
ing characteristics :—
(1) tharis (male): upperside of hind-wing has narrow grey-
blue inner margin.
etias (male): bee light blue inner marginal border extend-
ing across the anal half of hind-wing.
(11) tharis (both sexes) : on underside of hind-wing the post-
discal black band is thin and of equal width.
elias (both sexes): on underside of hind-wing this black
band is usually heavier and always more so towards the
inner margin.
Injures. (i-iir) @, right tail cut short in two specimens,
bitten out in a third.
Group 5. LOXURARIAS
Genus, Loxura, Horsfield.
527, Loxura atymnus, Cr.
Papilio atymnus, Cramer, Pap, Exot. Vol. IV. p. 82, pl.
CCCXXXI. figs. D. E (1780)
Loxura cassiopeia, Distant and Pryer, Ann, Mag. Nat.
Hist..(5). Vol. XIX sp. 269 (188%).
Sandakan (Pryer) ; Labuan (Low and Waterstradt) ; Lawas,
Trusan, Bidi and Kuching (Sar. Mus.) ; Lundu (Ind. Mus.).
Distribution: India, Malaya and China.
Local in Sarawak and then not plentiful.
Injuries. (i) @, both tails symmetrically cut short. (11)
Ja ums cin Shor, aac 2 large bite out of each fore-wing,
removing three- -quarters of the inner marginal region of the
left, and hind-marginal region and apex as far as cell of the
1. De Nicéville placed the two genera Lorwra and Yasoda in group; only
the first named occurs in Borneo. De Nicéville’s next group the Dewudorix
Group may well be merged with Loruraria, as, although somewhat heteroge-
neous, it is also characterised by a single tail and anal angle lobate. De Nicé-
ville divided his Deudorix Group into two sub-groups (a) males without, (b) with
secondary sexual characters. .
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right fore-wing, in which last only small costal and inner-
marginal strips of the wing are left.*
Genus, Drina, de Nicéville.
528. Drina maneia, Hew.
Myrina maneia, Hewitson, Ul. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 29,
pl. XII. figs. 14, 15 (1863).
Labuan (Low and Waterstradt) ; Matang and Pangga (Sar.
Mus.) ; Borneo (Ind. Mus.)
Distribution: Singapore.
Injuries. a and (une oenlettinark cutcot: (mn). oe both
Cub oil. . (av) ae bite removing anal angle of right fore-
mame (Ww) S| ee bite remoyv ae the whole of the anal
region of both hind- wings. (vi) @, left. tail cut off. (vi)
2, small piece out of inner-margin ae anal angle of right
hind-wing. (vii) @, small piece from hind-margin of right
hind-wing.
Drina ninoda, H. H. Druce.
Drina mnoda, 6 H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.
perold (1895):
oe ninoda, @ lpi lal WWisncek e/a Cle [0s Welly) OO.OO
7 (1896).
ee (Elwes) ; Labuan (Low) ; ce (Cator).
* Allied to D. donina, Hew.” (Druce 7. c.).
Cor
Caw)
i)
Genus, LEHERA, Moore.
9380 Lehera anna, H. H. Druce. (Fig. 1, ¢).
Lehera anna, 2 H. H. Druce, Ent. Mo. Mag. ser. 2. Vol.
Wile pe 76 Chs94).
1. Dr. G. B. Longstaff (Trans. Ent. Scc, Lond., 1905, p. 90 et id. 1908,
p- 658) notes of this species in Calcutta, “‘ its wings are much plaited longitudi-
nally, and when at rest its extremely long tails, crumpled look, and brown
colour give it quite the appearance of a “dead leaf.”
My experience of it in Sarawak is rather different. I first saw it beside
a small sunny path at Lawas, and on and off for the next three weeks between
the hours of 9 a.m. and midday I met with two or three (never more) individuals
in this one spot—, but never elsewhere in collecting round the station at Lawas.
I frequently noticed how conspicuous it was by reason of its short weak flight in
the sunshine and its habit of settling on the upperside of leaves: its ochreous
yellow underside rendering it thus conspicuous rather than the reverse, and the
conspicuous lightness of its long tails at once destroyed any chance of a re-
semblance to a dead leaf. The wings were folded erect, in no way ‘‘plaited’’;
the tails together, not folded; in fact, the insect gave me the general idea
of being a conspicuously coloured unpalatable insect, not a procryptically
coloured palatable butterfly. Curiously enough Dr. Longstaff (/.c. 1908, p. 629)
mentions an experiment with a closely allied species, Loxrura arcuata, which
tends to support my suggestion. He gave some butterflies to two Mainas in
Ceylon some of which the birds ate with evident relish, others they tasted and
then showed signs of dislike. Of the Lorwrahe notes: ‘* The bird gave the
Loxura a few pecks and then let it alone,’’ suggesting unpalatability.”’
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 1911.
168 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO.
Lehera anna, 2? H. H Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. jp.
680, pl. XXXI. fig. 8, 9 (1896).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt); near Juching and Mt.
Matang—2,000 ft. (Sar. Mus.).
Confined to Borneo.
As the male has not yet been recorded, I append a brief des-
cription.! Curiously enough although some dozen males
have been captured in Saraw ak, only one female has been taken
as yet, and that quite recently (August 24th, 1911) ; the native
collector reported having found it settled on the underside of a
leaf.
Upperside. Fore-wing: rich steely purple-blue with very
narrow dark fuscous marginal border along the costa, a wider
hind-marginal border which broadens towards apex. JZind-
wing: same colour as in fore-wing, with narrow fuscous border
along the costa; broader fuscous border along inner margin
5 thickly clothed with long fur-hke modified “scales ? 2. (as “de
Nicéville notes in Lehera ery, 6). Anal lobe metallic green
(in some gold-green) slightly extending up inner margin.
Underside, emerald-green.
Fore-wing: indistinct white line from costa to inner margin
rather nearer to hind-margin than in female. White patch
along inner margin does not extend above submedian nervure
as figured in female. Hind-wing: indistinct discal band as in
female followed exteriorly by another similarly indistinct light
band, two small white marks at base of anal lobe, which is itself
jet black. ‘Tail very thin filamentous, dark ‘fuscous white-
tipped. This last feature is in curious contrast to the long
and stout white tails of the female.
Injury. 6, large jagged bite removing anal region of left
hind-wing.
530a. Lehera anna var. fulva, nov.
A single male in the Sarawak Museum differmg from the
type form on underside only, which is rich ochreous instead
of emerald-green.
Loc. Mt. Matang, 3,200 ft. Sarawak.
Type $ in Sarawak Museum.
Lehera anna is closely allied to the Indian species L. eryzx,
and possibly should be regarded as a local race only of that
species. | Wood-Mason and de Nicéville describe a single
female under the name Lehera skinneri, which they say only
1. Mr. Druce has since informed me that the male has been described by
Herr Fruhstorfer ; I am unable to give the reference.
2. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. IV. ‘Pt. 2, p.
869, n. 188, pl. XV. fig. 3 (1886).
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differs from L. eryx in the underside being clear ochreous
instead of emerald-green.
Genus, ARAOTES, Doherty.
531. Araotes lapithis, Moore.
Myrina lapithis, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. HE. I. C. Vol. I.
Paton Neo (13807).
Labuan (Low and Wahnes) ; Mt. Santubong—?2,600 ft., and
Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and
Java.
Druce remarks that it is a common species, though it has
not been found so in Sarawak.
Genus, Siruo0Nn, Hiibner.
532. Silhon nedymond, Cr.
Papilio nedymond, Cramer, Pap. Ex. Vol. IV. p. 19, pl.
CONC figs Heh ¢ (1750).
ihecta chitra, Elorsfield, Cat. Lep. B. 1. C. p. 9%, pl. I.
He On oa ( 1oc0).
North Borneo, Mt. Derian (alt. 4—5,000 ft.), Mt. Saribu,
Padang and Kuching (Sar. Mus.) ; 8. KE. Borneo, nr. Banjar-
masin (Wahnes); 8. Borneo (coll. Godman and Salvin).
Distribution; Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java.
ju. (2, risht tail-cut out.
533. Sithon micea, Hew.
Myrina micea, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. Lyc. Supp. p.
Gplas, ool, 6 (1869).
Sithon valida, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 352, pl.
POO ig, Ae. (1873).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Labuan (Low) ; North Bor-
meow (oar Mus. ):.
Genus, Druporrx, Hewitson.
534. Deudorix emyjarbas, Moore.
Dipsas epyjarbas, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. HE. I. C. Vol.
ie py SRCISay).
Labuan (Low and Waterstradt) ; Baram, Mt. Santubong—
2,600 ft., Mt. Matang—3,200 ft., and Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: India and Malaya.
Sarawak specimens were taken in March, May and June.
Injuries. (i) 8, small bite from anal angle of right hind-
wing. (11) @, a similar bite removing tail, but not the anal
lobe.
R. A. Soc., No. 60, I9II.
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Cr
(hs)
Deudoria staudingeni, H. H. Drucee.
Deudoria staudingen, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soe. Gouna.
p. 621) pl. ROOM: ties 10) x (1895).
Labuan (Waterstradt) ; Mt. Santubong (Sar. Mus.).
Described from a single example in the collection of Dr.
Staudinger. ‘The Sarawak Museum contains two males taken
in November. As the upperside markings of epijarbas are
known to be very variable, I suggest that staudingeri may prove
to be but a variety or seasonal form of Moore’s species.
536. Deudorie diara, Swinhoe.
Deudorix diara, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) Vol.
XVI 857+ (1806):
Deudoriz diara, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p.
681, pl. XX XT fies 14, 1g “(iss aye
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Quop (Sar. Mus.).
Also noticed from the Jaintia Hills.
The single example (a female) in the Sarawak Museum
differs from Druce’s figure of the male in the following points:
upperside discal patch in fore-wing smaller; basal and discal
region of hind-wing fuscous. Underside: the spot closing cell
and the post-discal “band are edged with white and the general
colouring is much lighter.
Cr
(SU)
~>?
Deudonise strephanus, H. H. Druce.
Deudoria strephanus, H. H. Druce, ¢. c. p. 681, pL. XXXT-
figs Nope ClegG))e
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Mt. Matang—3,200 ft., Mt.
Santubong—2,600 ft. (Sar. Mus.).
Confined to Borneo.
The Sarawak Museum specimens were taken in February,
March, May, June and November (a single male from the foot
of Mt. Matang).
The female seems unrecorded and so I append a brief des-
cription of it.
FEMALE. Upperside. Fore-wing: uniform fuscous (as in
D. eyijarbas, Moore). Hind-wing; uniform fuscous as in fore-
wing, but anal region and tail iridescent white. This white
patch is developed most between 1st and 2nd median nervules,
less between 2nd and 3rd and between 1st median nervule and
sub-median nervure; obsolescent above 3rd median nervyule.
The nervules and edge of wing are delineated by dark fuscous
scales. Anal lobe black. Cilia of fore-w ing and upper part
of hind-wing fuscous, cilia of anal portion of hind- -wing white.
Underside as in male, except that the outer series of spots is a
httle more regular.
Hep. al. 2 45-49 mm. (Sarawak ¢ g 30-42 mm.).
Type 2 in Sarawak Museum.
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General colouring and pattern of upperside very like female
Sithon nedymond, Cr.
The males vary a lot in development of the rich orange-red
patches in both wings.
Injuries. (i) $6, a small piece from anal angle of left
hind-wing. (11) ¢, a symmetrical bite across the anal angle
of both hind-wings. (11) 6, a large portion of anal angle
removed from left hind-wing. (iv) ¢, a small piece from
anal angle of right hind-wing.
Genus, Rapata, Moore.
538. Rapala deliochus, Hewitson.
Deudorix deliochus, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p.
352 (1874).
Labuan (Waterstradt).
Distribution: Burma and Sumatra.
539. Rapala sphinx, Fab.
Papilio sphinz, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 520 (1775).
Deudorix varuna, Hewitson, (nec Horsfield), Dl. Diurn.
ep luye.sp) ec, mm. 16, pl: UX. figs. 32, °33.male, pl.
X. figs. 36, 37 female (1863).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Kiou (Hanitsch).
Distribution; East Indies, Sylhet, Burma and Java.
540. Rapala schistacea, Moore.
Deudorix schistacea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p.
140 (1879).
Deudorix varuna, Wood-Mason and de Nicéville (nec
Horstield), Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XLIX. pt. 2. p.
234, n. 51 (1880).
Kuching (Sar. Mus.); 8. E. Borneo, near Banjarmasin
(Wahnes).
Distribution: India, Ceylon, Andaman Isles, Sumatra and
Java.
541. Rapala scintilla, de Nicéville.
Rapala scintilla, de Nicéville, Butt. Ind. Vol. HI. p. 461
(1890).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt).
Distribution: Sikkim and Sumatra.
542. Rapala varuna, Horsfield.
Thecla varuna, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. H. I. C. p. 91 (1829).
Deudoriz orseis, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 23
(1863).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Labuan (Low and Water-
stradt) ; Madihit, Limbang and Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
R. A. Soc., No. 60, I91I.
172 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO.
Distribution: India and Malaya.
Injuries. (1) Marge quadrate bite out of left hind-wing
just missing the tail. (11) a small bite of the same nature but
removing the tail.
Sr
pee
[o)
Rapala chozeba, Hewitson.
Deudorix chozeba, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 24,
pl. V. figs. 47-48 (1863).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Labuan (Low and Water-
Stacia).
Originally described from Sumatra.
544. Rapala pheretima, Hewitson.
Deudorix pheretima, Hewitson, t. c. p. 21, pl. IX. figs.
27-29, (1863).
Mt .\Kina Balu and Labuan (Waterstradt) ; Sarawak (Hewit-
son) ; Baram and Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: India and Malaya.
545. Rapala xenophon, Fab.
Hesperia xenophon, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Vol. IIL. pt. I.
De ate tlroe)e
Mt. Kina Balu and Labuan (Waterstradt).
Distribution; India and Malaya.
545a. 9 var. coerulescens, Staud.
Deudorix intermedius, var. coerulescens, Staudinger, Lep.
Palaw. p. 116 (1889).
Sandakan (Pryer).
546. Rapala barthema, Distant.
Deudoria barthema, Distant, Rhop. Malay. p. 280 (1885).
Rapala barthema, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.
p: 623, pl. MX RIVE ie. 1S ssa
Mt. Kina Balu and Labuan (Waterstradt) ; Limbang and
Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution; Malay Peninsula.
547. Rapala suffusa, Moore.
Deudorix suffusa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 834,
po ne SCLsr5).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; North Borneo and Kuching
(Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Burma, Assam and Sumatra.
The two females in the Sarawak Museum differ from @
barthema in colour of underside being much brighter yellowish-
mustard... The hind-marginal line in fore-wing inclines in-
wards towards the costa more in these specimens than in bar-
thema,
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548. Rapala laima, H. H. Druce.
Rapala laima, H. H. Druce, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond. p.
etaple MX MIV: fig, 12, d"(1895):.
Sandakan (Pryer); Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt).
549. Rapala drasmos, H. H. Druce.
Rapala drasmos, H. H. Druce, t. c. p. 624, Wig NoNeAC EY:
ite ta 8 (13895).
Labuan (Waterstradt).
550. Rapala domitia, Hewitson.
Deudorix domitia, Hewitson, Il. Diurn. Lep. Lyc. p. 19,
ple. ties. 6, 7 (1863).
Labuan (Low and Waterstradt) ; Santubong and Kuching
(Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Malacca, Singapore, Sumatra and Billiton.
A fine male in the Sarawak Museum has the lower half of
cell in fore-wing markedly pale; in others this discal streak is
more obscure. ‘The undersides vary from pale yellow almost
to the brilliant mustard yellow of suffusa.
551. Rapala abnormis, Elwes.
Rapala abnormis, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 642,
pieehy. ne. 2, 6 (1892).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Mt. Santubong—2,800 ft.,
_ Mt. Matang from foot to summit, 3,200 ft. (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Burma and Sumatra.
Genus, BINDAHARA, Moore.
552. Bindahara phocides, Fab.
Hesperia phocides, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Vol. III. pt. I.
po aoe, n.. So, (793).
North Borneo and Mt. Santubong—2,600 ft. (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: India and Malaya.
dora. var. phocas, Staudinger.
Sithon phocides, Fab. var. phocas, Staudinger, Iris, II. p.
114 (1889). :
Sithon sugriva, Druce (nec Horsfield), Proc. Zool. Soc.
fe lond? p. 351 (1873).
Labuan (Low and Waterstradt) ; Kuching (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Celebes and Philippine Islands.
Mr. Druce kindly identified this variety for me.
Both type form and variety seem very rare in Sarawak.
Genus, VIRACHOLA, Moore.
553. Virachola smilis, Hewitson.
Deudorix smilis, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 18,
ple Vln figs 225 23° 9 (1863):
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174 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO.
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt); Mt. Santubong and Mt.
Matang (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: “ Kast India” (Hewitson) ; Andaman Isles
and Palawan.
A long series of males only the Sarawak Museum, chiefly
from the summit of Mt. Santubong; taken all the year round;
varying in size from 25 mm. to 41 mm. ‘The basal spots on
underside of hind-wing are not so filled up as shewn in de
Nicéville’s figure of the female. The blue areas of both wings
are much more reduced than in the female, as pointed out by
Druce.
Injuries. Small ragged bites out of anal angle of left hind-
wing in two specimens ; a third with symmetrical bite from
both hind-wings at anal angle and a fourth with a small piece
removed from the same region of the right hind-wing.
As this is the last instance of injured Lycaenidae to be noticed
it may be of interest to try and draw some conclusions from all
the instances so far recorded in this paper.
It will have been noticed that the Sub-Families of Lycaenidae |
show signs of enemies’ bites in varying degrees culminating in the |
two extremes shown by the Gerydinae and Theclinae; the former
showing practically no injuries at all, while in sharp contrast to
them, the latter afford abundant evidence of attacks made by birds
or lizards, sometimes on the hind-margin of the hind-wing, some-
times even on the fore-wing, but more especially on the anal region
of the hind-wings. From ‘this, two pairs of diametrically opposite
conclusions are suggested : ay that the small, weak, protectively
coloured (above and. below) Gerydinae fall so easy a prey to their
enemies, that no injured specimens ever escape; one bite and the |
incident of capture is over. ‘Their only chance in the struggle for |
existence hes in their ability to escape notice, and hence we have
the sombre coloured uppersides, which render them very hard to
see in flight, and the procryptic undersides which answer their.
purpose as well as, if not better than, those of any other Lycaenid.
This would be in accordance with the view that protectively-coloured ;
butterflies are always palatable.
| Against this conclusion however we should note that one
frequently catches injured specimens of the presumably palatable
Satyrine—Y pthima pandacus, Moore, which is weak in flight and
easy to capture; in fact I have more notes of i injuries to that species
than to any other in Sarawak!]. .
With the Theclinae it would appear that in heu of any scheme :
of protective colouring, a different method of defence has been ;
evolved, namely that of directing the enemy's attention to a non-
vital spot, which is effected by the development of eye-spots and
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tails at the anal angle of the hind-wing.'’ Thus, the enemy’s
attention is attracted by these showy spots and lght tails, so that
a dart is made in their direction rather than in the vital region of
the head or body; but the loss of a portion of the hind-wing is of
little moment to the butterfly, who thus escapes. The finding of so
many Theclinae injured in this manner leads to the second part of
our first conclusion, namely that this kind of Lycaenid is recognized
among birds and lizards as palatable food, hence the evidence of
numerous attacks, of which no doubt a certain percentage prove
fatal.
(ii) The 1st of our second pair of conclusions suggested is
that put forward now again by opponents of the Mimicry Theories,
viz. that butterflies are not attacked thus; there are no injured
specimens among the Gerydinae because birds and lizards do not
attack them. W hy then we ask, their beautifully protected colour-
ing? Are they unpalatable, and so immune from attacks? Again,
if so, why their sombre colouring and why do we not get con-
spicuously coloured Gerydinae ?
The second conclusion suggested by the evidence of the Thec-
linae, is that they are unpalatable and that their would-be destroyers
(principally young and inexperienced enemies) on tasting them
have given up the pursuit because of their unpalatability, thus
accounting for the number of “ sampled ” specimens noticed.”
It is altogether beyond the scope of the present paper to go
into a discussion of this interesting problem, which would involve
a lengthy review of all the external evidence collected by various
writers on this and other Families of Rhopalocera in many other
parts of the world, and it must suffice now to point out that the
evidence on the whole favours our first pair of conclusions, although
there are also published records apparently in support of the second
pair of conclusions.
But like most of these curious theories, experiments and ob-
servations are wanted badly, be it either to confute or corroborate ;
and it is admittedly “up” to those of us who live in the tropics
to provide the evidence of such experiments and observations.
1. Fora lucid exposition of this theory see Poulton in Essays on Evolution
1908. pp. 281-3 and 325; also Shelford, Journ. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc: No. 35.
1901. pp. 34, 35; also Marshall, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1902. pt. 353—875 and
plates IX, X and XI.
A different conclusion is arrived at by A. Tylor (Colowration of Animals and
Plants. 1886. p. 22), whose theory is (i) that coloration is primarily dependent
upon the direct action of light, and (ii) that coloration follows the chief lines
of structure. He states that ‘‘It is not suggested that the coloration is
applied to important parts in order to emphasize them, but rather that being
important parts, they have become naturally the seats of most vivid colour.”’
According to the theory of Directive Markings however, the conspicuous
coloration at the anal angle of the hind-wing in Theclinae has been developed for
that very purpose, i.e., in order to emphasize them, because they are not important
parts. Mr. Tylor notes further on, that Natural Selection acts on his fundamental
theory “‘ by suppressing, or developing, structurally distributed colours.’’
2. See note on page 86.
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176 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO.
Genus, Srntiusa, Moore.
5o4. Sinthusa nasaka, Horsfield.
Thecla nasaka, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. EK. I. C. p. 91 (1829).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; 8. Borneo (Ind. Mus.).
Druce considers this species synonymous with the next (S.
amba, IXirby).
Distribution; India, Sikkim, Assam, Sumatra and Java.
Dy
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Sinthusa amba, Wirby.
Hypolycaena amba, Wirby, Ill. Diurn. Lep. Lye. Supp.
p. 32, ‘pl. V..b, figs. 44-46 (1878).
Sandakan (Pryer); Bidi (Sar. Mus.). ,
Distribution: Mergui, Myitta, Burma, Malay Peninsula and
Sumatra.
A single female in the Sarawak Museum, which agrees well
with Kirby’s deserption.
556. Sinthusa amata, Distant.
Sinthusa amata, Distant, Rhop. Malay. p. 461, pl. XLIY.
fis. 20, 2 (1886).
Sinthusa amata, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. p.
625, 6 (1895).
Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Kiou (Hanitsch) ; Kuching,
Bidi, Tegora (Sar. Mus.).
Distribution: Penang.
Sarawak examples taken from September to December and
one in March. The males agree well with Mr. Druce’s des-
cription.
[Part IV of “The Butterflies of Borneo” dealing with the
Papilionidae (Pierinae and Papilioninae) is in course of pre-
paration |.
Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc., No. 60, I91I. .
177
Explanation to Plate.
1. Lehera anna, Druce, 6 Mt. Matang, November, 1898.
Upperside peta:
2. Poritia pasira, n. sp. & Mt. Matang, December, 1898.
Underside p. 122.
3. Charana splendida, n. sp. ¢ Matang Road, March 20th,
1911. Upperside p. 155.
4. Purlisa gigantea, Distant, ¢ Mt. Matang, March, 1898.
Upperside Dito:
5. Lycaenopsis lingga, n. sp. 2 Mt. Lingga, May, 1909. Up-
perside ploG:
6. Chliaria balua, n. sp. Matang Road, May 20th,
1910. Upperside p. 151.
7. Tajuria sumia, n. sp. 2 Mt. Penrissen, 3,500 ft., May
19th, 1899. Underside p. 148.
8. Nacaduba angusta, Druce, 2 Kuching, June 25th, 1897.
Upperside p LOr
9. Logania drucet, n. sp. $ Matang Road, February 23rd.
Upperside p. .85.
10. Charana? abnormis, n. sp. Mt. Penrissen, May. 1899.
Underside p. 156.
All figures 2 of natural size; specimens in Sarawak Museum.
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(No. 61]
JOURNAL
of the
Straits Branch
of the
Royal Asiatic Society
June, 1912,
SINGAPORE:
PRINTED AT THE METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE.
1912,
Table of Contents.
Council for 1912
Proceedings of Annual General Meeting
Annual Report of Council for 1912
Hon. Treasurer’s Account for the year 1912
List of Members for 1912
Rules
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
New and Rare Malayan Plants, by H. N. lizdley
A Botanica) Excursion to Pulau Adang, by H. N. Ridley
The Malacca Sultanate, by the Hon. Rh. J. Wilkinson
The Capture of Malacca, by the Hon. fh. J. Wilkinson ...
The Old Cemetery on Fort’ Canning, Singapore. With
plan and four plates. By H. A. Stallwood
THE
STRAITS BRANCH
OF THE
mers ASIATIC SOCIETY,
COUNCTE FOR 1912.
Hon. Dr. D. J. GALLOWAY, President.
Hon. A. T. BRYANT, Vice-President for Singapore.
Hon. J. O. ANTHONISZ, - Penang.
Mr. W. G. MAXWELL, - VE Ss
Dr. R. HANITSCH, Honorary Secretary.
Mr. J. LOVE MONTGOMERIE, Honorary Treasurer.
Mr. W. MAKEPEACE, Honorary Librarian.
THE BISHOP OF ae
DRO. DL KEITH,” ipa
| - Councillors.
Mr. H. MARRIOTT,
Mr. V. A. FLOWER,
PROCEEDINGS
of the
Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General meeting was held on February 12th, 1912
ab the Rattles Library.
There were present :—
Hon. Dr. GALLOWAY (President)
Hon. C. J. SAUNDERS. Dr. J. M. BANDAS
Hon. A. T. BRYANT. Mr. A. Hoop-BEGG.
THE BISHOP OF SINGAPORE MR. W. MAKEPEACE.
Mr. C. F. C. AYRE. MR. H. ROBINSON.
REV. J. A. B. Cook. Mr. E. ROSTADOS.
Mr. V. A. FLOWER. Mr. W. A. SIMs.
Dr. R. HANITScH, Actc. HON. SECRETARY.
The minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 1911 were
read and confirmed.
The Council’s report and the Hon. Treasurer's accounts were
laid on the table, and on the proposal of the Hon’ble Dr. Galloway,
seconded by the Hon’ble A. T. Bryant, adopted.
The members elected during the past year were confirmed in
election.
The President expressed the opinion that it was the Society’s
duty, aS a Small recognition of Mr. Ridley’s work, to elect him an
Honorary Member, and he moved accordingly. The Rey. J. A. B.
Cook seconded and the motion was carried.
PROCEEDINGS. vii
The Hon’ble C. J. Saunders proposed a vote of thanks to the
President for presenting to the Society the picture of their late
Secretary, Mr. Ridley. The Bishop seconded and the motion was
carried with applause.
The election of office-bearers for the new year resulted as
follows :—
President is ae 1. 1 HON DRA DJ. GALLOWAY.
Vice-President for Singapore .... Hon. A. T..BRYANT.
is Penang ... Hon. J..O, ANTHONISZ.
2 HOM S.> 3.0. Ma. W. G. MAXWELD.
Hon. Secretary ee -. -DR. R. HANITSER.
Hon. Treasurer bed ... Mr. J. LOVE MONTGOMERIE.
Hon. Librarian ft .-- Mr. W. MAKEPEACE.
| THE BISHOP OF SINGAPORE.
Bees itois ' Mr. V. A. FLOWER.
| Dr. R. D. KEITH.
| Mr. H. MarRIort.
Annual Report
of the
Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society
for 1911.
The past year has been one of unusual activity. Not less than
four numbers of the Journal were issued, viz. Nos. 57, 58, 59, and
60, and the new edition of the Map of the Malay Peninsula, delayed
for so long, was at last published and arrived here in August.
The cost of the map was as follows :—
A. Mr. van Cuylenberg’s charge for compiling
and drawing of the map 2 - $500—
B. KE. Stanford’s charge for Lithographing and
Printing 2000 copies £296:—:—
Mounting 800 copies on rollers c940 ae
Mounting 100 copies to fold.. £ 37:10:—
£573:10: = $4915.71
C. freight to Singapore con $ 42,—
TOTAL $5457.71
Messrs. Kelly and Walsh were appointed local agents for the
sale of the map, and 358 copies were sold up to the end of December,
the Society’s share on this being $2486.40. (N. B. The balance sheet
shows the sales up to the end of September only.)
The followin new members were elected during the year:
Mr. W. R. ARMSTRONG.
2 LW CLAMTON:
Rr. REV. BisHorP C. J. FERGUSON-DAVIE, D.D.
Mr. R. DERRY.
) Wee eG Tes.
, Je GRIBEIRES:
Dr. J. M. HANDY.
Mr. A. Hoop- BEGG.
PE Va eion oO OI as
2 eS be JOEINSON:
Masgor EF. W. LUMSDEN.
Mr. R. W. MUNRO.
ek. Me RIGHARDS:
Gel MONO ER ESONe
, G. A. SMITH-STEINMETZ.
DR. MILDRED E. STALEY.
Mr. EH. A. G. STUART.
Llp ONDINE.
, . G. WORSLEY-TAYLOR.
ANNUAL REPORT. 1x
The Society deeply regrets to have to record the death of two
of their members, that of the Hon’ble W. D. Barnes, of whom an
obituary notice was given in Journal No. 60, and that of Mr. W.
Nanson. Mr. Nanson was one of the oldest members of the Society.
He was elected in 1889 and served-repeatedly on the Council.
Mr. H. N. Ridley, C.M.G., F.R.S., resigned the Secretary-
ship in October, in view of his approaching retirement. Having
been elected in 1888, he had been Secretary during the years 1890-
93 ; 1897-1900; 1902-11, 1., e., during the greater part of the Society's
existence, and not in any way in a formal capacity, but.as the very
soul of the Society.
The Society is much indebted to its President, the Hon. Dr.
Galloway, for having kindly presented the enlarged portrait of Mr.
Ridley, which has now been placed in the Society's room alongside
that of Bishop Hose, also presented by Dr. Galloway some years
ago. |
R. HANITSCH.
Singapore, Acting Hon. Secretary.
January, 1912.
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a em Patron: H, EH. SIR ‘ARTHUR YOUNG, K.C.M.G.
1903 ABBOTT, Dr. W. L. Calcutta.
1905 AcTON, R. D. Singapore.
1909 ADAM, FRANK Singapore.
1908 ADAMS, Hon. A. R. Penang.
1910 ApAms, H. A: Sarawak.
1910 ADAMS, H. Powys England.
1910 ALDWoRTH, J. R. O. Kuala Lumpur.
1909 ALLEN, ROWLAND Singapore.
1908 ANDERSON, E. Singapore.
1911 ANDERSON, J. W. Singapore.
1890 ANTHONISZ, Hon. J. O. Singapore.
1911 ARMSTRONG, W. R. Penang.
1908 ARTHUR, J. S. W. Christmas Island
1910 Asmus, AD. England.
1910. AVETOOM, DR. T. C. Penang.
908" AvRE, OC. F.C. Singapore.
1912 BAKER, A. C. Singapore.
1909 BANks, C. W. Singapore.
1899* BANKS, J. EF. lowa,.U. S. A.
1899 BARKER, Dr. A. J. G. Mngland.
1910 BARNARD, BASIL Taiping, Perak.
1912 BARNARD, H. C. Taiping, Perak.
PO4 BARTLETT, RK. J. Ipoh, Perak.
1910 BARTLeEy, W. Java.
1909 BEAN, A. W. Singapore.
£910 BEATTY, D. Malacca.
1910 BENJAFIELD, F. J. Singapore.
1910* BERKELEY, H. Perak.
1885 BICKNELL, W. A. Penang.
1901 BIDWELL, R. A. J. Singapore.
1903 BIRCH, Sir E. W., C.M.G. England.
1908* BisHor, MAson C. F., R.A. England.
1901 BrsHor, J. HE. Kelantan.
1890* BLAGDEN, C. O. London, 8. W.
1884 BLAND, R. N. © England.
1905 BLAND, MRS. R. N. England.
L910. Bout, F. EF. Sadong, Sarawak.
m0 Born,Hon, DT, Singapore.
xii MEMBERS FOR 1912.
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BROCKMAN, E. L., C.M.G.
BROOKE, J. BR.
BROOKS, C. J.
Brow\y, A. V.
Brown, D. A. M.
BRYANT, Hon. A. T.
BuRN-MurRpocH, A. M.
CAMPBELL, J.
‘CARVER (Cooe
CERRUTI, G. B.
CHANCELLOR, CAPT. A. B.
1906 CHAPMAN, W. T.
1911 CLAYTON, T. W.
1894;+CoLLYER, W. R., LS.0.
1897*ConLAY, W. L.
1910 Cook, Hon. W. W.
1899 Cook, REv. J. A. B.
1910 CROUCHER, DR. F. B.
IDLO) DATE We D:
1904 DALLAS, Hon. F. H.
1910 DARBISHIRE, Hon. C. W.
1892 DANE, DR. RB.
1907 DENT, DR. F.
1912 DERRY, R.
1903“DESHON, Hon H. F.
1897 DicKkson, E. A.
1905 DouGLAS, R. S,
1910 DRAPER, B.
1909 DrRuRY, REV. W.
1910 DUNMAN, W.
1899 EKpMONDS, R. C.
1885; HGERTON, Ei] Ee SiR We,
K.C.M.G.
1885 ELcoum, J. B.
1910 ELLERTON, H. B.
1909 ELLIS, Hon. E. C.
1910 ENGEL, L.
1910 Evans, Hon. W,
1891 EVERETT, H. H.
1910 FAnsHAw, DR. P. S.
1909 FARRER, R. J.
1909 FERRIER, J. C.
1910 FIRMSTONE, H. W.
1910 FISHER, W. D.
1901 FLEMING, T. C.
1897*FLowER, Capt. S. S.-
1904 FLOWER, V. A.
1897 Fort, Sir HUGH
1897 FREER, DR. G. D.
Singapore.
Kuala Lumpur.
Singapore.
Benkoolen, Sumatra.
Penang.
Penang.
Singapore.
Kuala Lumpur.
Calcutta.
Singapore.
Penang.
Singapore.
Penang.
Kelantan.
England.
England.
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Singapore.
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England.
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Singapore.
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Johore.
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England.
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Johore.
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Singapore.
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Perak.
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MEMBERS FOR 1912. xiii
1908 FREEMAN, D.
1910*Frost, MEADOWS.
1911" “FERGUSON- DAVIE, Rt. REV.
BISHOP C. J., D.D.
1909 GAHAGAN, A. Y.
1905 GALLOWAY, Hon. Dr. BD, J.
1897*GERINI, LT. Cou. G. E.
1912 GIBBONS, V.
1911 GIBBS, W. E.
1903 GIBSON, W. S.
1902*GIMLETTE, Dr. J.D.
1910 GLENNIE, Dr. J. A. R.
1909 GOULDING, R. R.
1910 Gray, N. T.
1911 GRIFFITHS, J.
1897 HAINES, REv. F. W.
1886 HALE, A.
L907 HAL, G. A.
Poti EAnLIPAX, E. J.
191) HAanpDy, Dr. J. M.
1895 HANITscH, DR. R.
1909 HARRINGTON, A. G.
1904 HAYNES, A. 8S.
1907 Hays, Dr. T. HEYWARD.
1901 HELLIER, MAURICE
1909 HENNINGS, W. G.
1910 HENRY, J.
1911 Heway, E. D.
1905 HEWITT, JOHN, B.A.
i78 ILL, H.C.
1911 Hoop-BEGG, ike
1897 HosgE, E. §.
18781 HoskE, Rt. REV. BISHOP
G. F.
1892 HoYNcK VAN
PAPENDRECHT, P. C.
1909 Huppack, T. R.
1909 HuGHES, J. W. W.
1907 HuMPHREYS, J. L.
1903 IzaARD, VEN. ARCH. H.C,
1910 JACKSON, Cou. H. M.
1910 JAEGER, P.
1910 JAMIESON, Dr. T. HILL.
1907 JANION, E. M.
1912 JELF, A. S.
1910 JoHNSON, B. J. H.
1911 JoHNSON, H.S.B.
1910 JonrEs, H. W.
1912 JoNES, W. RB...
1912 JONES, WYNDHAM
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Singapore.
Italy.
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Singapore.
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KEHDING, Dr. F.
Kerra, Dr. B.D.
Kemp, W. L.
KINSEY, W. E.
Kiek, DR. J.
Kioss, C. Bs
KNIGHT, ARTHUR
KNOCKER, FRED
KRIEKENBEEK, J. W.
LAIDLAw, G. M.
FOR 1912.
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Singapore.
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Singapore.
Taiping, Perak.
Tasik, Upper Perak.
LAw, His Honour Sik A.F.G. England.
1885+ LAWES, REv. W. G.
LAWRENCE, A. E.
Lemon, A. H.
LEWIS, J.B. AL, Bes
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|Gieonape di, ee
Low, H. A.
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EL eae he:
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BIN MAHBOB
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MARSH, F. EH.
MARSHALL, F. C.
MARSHALL, HAROLD B.
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1909 MOULTON, J. C. Sarawak.
1911 Munro, R.. W. Jugra.
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1901 NORMAN, HENRY Kuala Kangsar.
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rid O' MAY, J. Kuala Kangsar:
1908 PARR, C. W. C. England.
1910 Paxon, H. C. Singapore.
1909 PEACOCK, W. Singapore.
1899 PEARS, FRANCIS Muar.
1910 PEIRCE, BR. Singapore.
1911* PENNINGTON, H. E. Rembau, N. S.
18781PERHAM, VEN : ARCHDEACON England.
1909 PuuMPTON, M. E. Singapore.
1907 Pra, C. Da Kuala Pilah, N. S.
1910 PRATT, E. Cornwall, England.
1912 PRICE, WILLIAM ROBERT Chepstow, England.
1906 PRINGLE, R. D. Singapore.
1907 PyketTt, REV. G. F. Penang.
1910* REID, DR. ALFRED Kuantan.
1910 REID, ALEX Singapore.
1909 RENNIE, J.S. M. Singapore.
1909 RICHARDS, D. S. Kuala Lumpur.
1911 RICHARDs, R. M. Province Wellesley.
18907 RIDLEY, H. N., ©.M.G., F.R.S. England.
1910* RiTcHIE, J. G. Perak.
1911 ROBERTSON, G. H. M. Singapore.
1904 ROBINSON, H. C. Kuala Lumpur.
1911 RoBINson, H. Singapore.
1897 ROSTADOS, E. Taiping.
1897, ROWLAND, W. R. Negri Sembilan
1890 Sr. CLAIR, W. G. Singapore.
1909 SANDERSON, MRs. R. Singapore.
1878'Sarawak, H. H. RAJAH OF, Sarawak.
G, C. M. G.
18857SAtTow, Sir E. M. England.
1897 SAUNDERS, Hon. C. J. Singapore.
1910 SCHUDEL, G. Singapore.
1904 SCHWABE, KE. M. Kajang, Selangor.
POO SCOLrT, R. England.
1907 SCRIVENOR, J. B. Batu Gajah, Perak.
1890 SEAH LIANG SEAH Singapore.
1894 SHELLABEAR, REV. W.G. Singapore.
1909 Sims, W. A. Singapore.
a
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1909 SKINNER, CAPT. R. McK Singapore.
18931SmirH, Sir C. C., G. Cc. M. G. Welwyn, England.
1911 SmMITH-STEINMETZ, G. A. Klang, Selangor.
1910 SoNG ONG SIANG Singapore.
1910 SPAKLER, H. Singapore,
XV1 MEMBERS FOR 1912.
1912 STALEY, DR. MILDRED E.
1909 STEEDMAN, R. S.
1911 STEADMAN, V.
1910 STEVENS, K. A.
1912 SMITH, PROFESSOR
HARRISON W.
1910 Srinu, A. W.
1911 STruarT, EE. AWG.
1910 SrurRocK, A.J.
1910 SUNNER, J. H.
1912 SWAYNE, C. J.
1908 TAN CHENG LOCK
1910 TAN JIAK KIM, HON.
190a1 DATHOCK. Inch long. Flowers vellow secund crowded. Floral bracts ovate
subacute shorter than the calyx green. Calyx £ inch long, lobes
subulate linear purple deeply cut to near the base. ( orolla yellow
4 inch long, tube straight stout, upper lobe oblong truncate, lower
lobe broader oblong. Anthers elliptic with long w vhite appendages:
Capsule club- shaped half an inch long. Sepals as long as the
slender portion, + inch long. Seed or bicular pubescent.
Johore: Gunong Panti; Pahang: NKwala Tahan (Ridley 2185),
and Kota Glanggi woods: Selangor: Ginting Sempah.
This species has the flowers distinctly secund as has J. secun-
diflora of Temengoh, but the whole texture of the plant is that of
J. uber a fleshy succulent herb and quite glabrous. The leaves vary
a good deal: those of the Johore and Selangor forests being ovate,
the Pahang ones, lanceolate and often oblique.
Filetia hirta, n. sp.
An ascending herb, stem somewhat woody purple hairy above.
Leayes ovate to ovate lanceolate slightly narrowed to the base, apex
shortly acuminate obtuse 25 inches ‘long 1 inch wide, nerves 6 pairs,
with multicellular hairs on both surfaces, but very densely on the
midrib and neryes of the undersurface petiole + inch long, densely
hairy. Raceme 3 inches long, base (1$ inch) nude, hairy. Bracts
linear hairy $ inch Jong. Sepals linear acuminate hairy, free nearly
to the base, half as long as the corolla. Corolla half an inch long,
tube stout curved, limb white upper oblong obtuse, lip somewhat
similar yellow, corolla sparingly pubescent all over, outside, lip
glabrous except for a few hairs. Anthers linear hairy. Pistil
glabrous , style hairy.
Selangor: Sempang Mines.
This resembles considerably F. Scortechinii, Clarke which
grows in the same spot but which is almost or completely glabrous
all over.
F.. Scortechini, Clarke of which only one very bad specimen of
Scortechini is in the Singapore herbarium is described as a much
branching under shrub. However like F. Rid/eyi it is more or less
of a creeping plant throwing up a number of short stems, about 6
inches tall. The flowers like those of all of our species are white
with a TELy palate on the lip. The capsule (which has not been
described is inch long narrow at the base dilated at the upper end
and shortly “peaked. It contains + seeds in the upper end, flat
papillose and somewhat obovate. It occurs on the Gunong Semang-
kok, and at Gunong Berembun above Telom.
What I take to be #. paniculata, Clarke also occurs on Gunong
Semangkok (No, 12091).
Rea SoCs, NO: OI,- 1912.
36 NEW AND RARE’ MALAYAN PLANTS.
Leda flava, n. sp.
Herb about 3 feet tall. Leaves ovate shortly acuminate at the
tip narrowed at the base, glabrous rather fleshy, nerves about 8 pairs
prominent, + inches long 2 inches w ide, silvery, petiole $ inch long.
Panicle terminal of 3 or four strict br anches, scurfy, flowers a
numerous (agian aes | four inches long. Bracts linear acute 5
inch Jong. Calyx #6 inch long of 5 stibulate linear lobes shortly
connate at the base. Corolla yellow % inch long, tube thick as long
as the limb, scabrid upper lobe, trifid lobes obtuse, lower broader
deflexed. Stamens 2, anther cells parallel, with no appendages
connective cn the back minutely hairy.
Perak: Tapah near Temoh, swampy woods (14053).
This has the habit of a Justicia but the anther cells are parallel
and not spurred.
EUPHORBIACEAE.
Huphorbia Synadenium, v. sp.
A shrub about 2 feet tall, stem smooth brownish rather sue-
culent. Leaves alternate oblanceolate spathulate subacute or blunt
narrowed to the petiole fleshy green, nerves inyisible 4 inches long
14 inch wide, petiole $ inch long. Inflorescence solitary or in pairs
1 male and 1 female axillary. Male, peduncle 4 inch long thick
with two short ovate bracts purple pink. Inyolucre as long pink
lobes 5 thick semiorbicular light green, punctate. Glands separate
truncate oblong narrowed at the basc, apex Jaciniate pink ten.
Flowers numerous. Stamens solitary, filement thickened at the
base above. filiform, surrounded by a fimbriate calyx of narrow
white linear lobes about 8, anther cells globose separate. Female
involucre smaller subangled with 2 dark pink lobes much shorter
not expanded greenish yellow, glands flat incurved laciniate pale
green. Pistil solitary surrounded with pale green Jacimate calyx
oyery subglobose shortly stalked. Styles three subulate not plumed
twisted together.
Penang Hill: near the Waterfall: Selangor: Langat.
In rocky woods. I have this curious plant in cultiy ation in the
Botanic Gardens in Singapore.
Baillon described a species of Synadenium as Huphorbia Syna-
denia but this has been referred to its genus Synadenium, so that
the above name will stand.
CUPULIFERAE.
Quercus Rassa, Miq.
On the top of the mountain Gunong Semangkok grow two
oaks, which are certainly not typical Q. Rassa ut at the same time
there are in the Singapore herbarium specimens which seem to be
intermediate forms. The typical QY. Rassa is a tall tree with very
narrow close veined coriaccous leaves, and this is the plant which
grows on Penang hill, where it does not vary to any extent. King
in the Calcutta Annals mentions a variety latifolia which I take
it is represented by his 6983 from Gunong Hijau in Perak.
Jour. Straits Branch
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On Gunong Semangkok at 4375 feet altitude we have a plant
much resembling this. Its leaves and branches are glabrous and
the leaves stiffly coriaceous ovate or oblong ovate acute 3 inches long
14 inch wide, with only 6 pairs of nerves, which are distant from
each other, the minute tessellate reticulations so conspicuous In
typical Rassa, are much less conspicuous. The petiole is a quarter
of an inch long. ‘The inflorescence terminal is stout, its bark on
the rachis black and minutely pubescent. The spikes 3 inches
long and stiff. The male flower bunches are rather distinct.
The acorns are sessile, with a shallow cup half an inch across,
x inch deep, with about ten rings; these have the upper edge waved
with distinct teeth. The glans is a short broad cone half an inch
long beaked light brown and minutely silky (No. 12061 of my
collection). The plant growing on the top of the Trig. station
which of course has been cleared and is now a ered only “with low
bushes is itself a low bush only a few feet tall. A specimen obtained
by Barnes from Kluang 'Terbang (10910) resembles this somewhat
but the leaves are mostly more intermediate between that and those
of typical Rassa, some however are ovate with fewer nerves, and
somewhat similar is Kunstler’s No. 6983, from Gunong Hijau in
the Taiping hills, which he describes as a tree 40 to 46 feet tall.
This is the plant I take to be King’s var. latifolia.
With this grows on Gunong Semangkok, a shrubby oak with
lanceolate long acuminate leaves, which when young are coppery
red. They are about four inches long and one inch wide. The
petiole a quarter of an inch long. The young leaves are sprinkled
all over with stellate hairs and these are densely crowded on the
midrib and petiole. The adult leaves are nearly glabrous, the
reticulations are the same in appearance on the upper surface as in
the Penang fassa, but are inconspicuous on the smooth lower
surface. ‘lhe branches are covered with a woolly mass of these
stellate hairs as are the slender weak spikes. This I would call
the var. /anwginosa.
Both of these two forms or varieties grow closely intermixed in
scrubby bushes up to the waist or shorter on the top of the hill,
but I saw the var. /anuginosa further down the hill about 20 feet
tall.
Had I not seen these plants intermixed with intermediate
fohage, I should certainly have distinguished them specifically, both
from each other and from O. Rassa, but J would rather class that
species as a very variable oak varying according to altitude and
exposure, of the mountain on which it grows.
ORCHIDEAE.
Microstylis flavo-viridis, n. sp.
Stem weak ascending leaves scattered: whole plant 11 inches
long. Leaves thin herbaceous lanceolate 2 inches long ? inch wide,
narrowed to the petiole half an inch long. Racemes slender few
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38 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS.
flowered, flowers distant small. Bracts very narrow lanceolate long
acuminate + inch long deflexed green. Flowers 4 inch long greenish
yellow turning to light red, pedicels very slender longer. than the
bracts. Upper sepal linear oblong, laterals deflexed wider oblong
obtuse. Petals narrower oblong. Lip subtriangular oblong, au-
ricles long pointed, limb triangular lanceolate tapering towards the
apex which is retuse. ‘olumn short.
Perak: Gunong Kerbau on Gunong Bal at 4500 ft., May 1909.
Mhd. Aniif.
“Flowers greenish yellow changed to light red, leaves green
near the midrib and light red near the edge.”
Oberonia pendula, n. sp.
Stems several in a tuft 4 to 13 inches long slender pendulous.
Leaves remote distichous linear acute ensiform blade 1 inch long
and 4; inch across sheath as long. Spike + inches long slender,
flowers yellow in close set whorls, ovary very short. Bracts lan-
ceolate acuminate as long as the flowers. Sepals ovate triangular.
Petals narrower linear. Lip 3-lobed side lobes short triangular
acute, midlobe lanceolate entire much longer, apex subacute, anther
skull-shaped with a small tip.
Selangor: on a tree in forests by the track to the Sempang
Mines, April 1911.
Bulbophyllum (§ Diphyes) paullum, n. sp.
Rhizome slender creeping, pseudobulbs distant conic curved 4
inch long 75 through at the bee half an inch apart. Leaf oblong
linear athe 3-11 “inch long 445 inch wide, base narrowed into a
petiole. Scape filiform 14 inch long with a sheathing bract in the
middle. Flowers 4 or 5 in a short congested receme with lanceolate
acute bracts, pedicel § inch long. Sepals linear acuminate not
gibbous narrow inch long. Petals linear oblong quite obtuse,
one third of the length, “all pale whitish. Lip short fleshy
curved, base broad with a narrow claw, apex blunt orange. Column
rather large, foot long free upeurved. Stelidia 2 lanceolate acu-
minate as long as the anther, which is rather large rounded and
grooved on the top.
Selangor: Sempang Mines on a tree. A single specimen.
Allied to B. concinnum, Hook. fil. but with very different
fohage. 7
Dendrobium (§ Pedilonum) chloroleucum, n. sp.
Stems slender 24 inches long $ inch through, the internodes
about 2 inches long. Leaves thin lanceolate acuminate acute 4
inches long $ inch wide. Flowers solitary on a slender peduncle
an inch long. Ovary and pedicel # inch long. Sepals lanceolate,
the upper one half an inch long, the lower ones similar with a
mentum slender curved acuminate blunt, an inch long. Petals
rather narrower than sepals all cream colour passing into green
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NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 39
at the back and ip of the mentum and tip of the sepals. Lip
entire spathulate 14 inch long, the claw linear with a low V-shaped
keel at the base, lamina oblong tip rounded narrowing into the claw
margins undulate, 4 inch wide, canary yellow. Column base and
foot green deeply channelled in front, stelidia erect little longer
than the anther oblong truncate slightly retuse, orange colour.
Anther white apex rounded, front margin truncate.
Perak: Gunong Kerbau, coll. Mhd. ‘Aniff.
Perhaps nearest to D. hymenopterum, Hook. fil. but differing
in colour, shape of sepals, and in the keel on the dise. A dull
looking plant even for this section.
Hria (Brectescentes) ramulosa, n. sp.
Stem creeping, branched several times cylindric or slightly
thickened upwards, branches 6 inches long 4 inch are covered
with a silvery grey epidermis finely striate. Leaves 2. terminal
lanceolate acute narrowed at the base 3 inches long # inch wide thin
textured. Raceme 2 inches long from below the leaves, about
flowered. Bracts + inch long oblong creamy white. Pedicel and
ovary as long, covered with dark red scurty hairs. Upper sepal
lanceolate actite 4 inch, lower ones falcate scrotiform gibbous at base,
adnate to the column foot, all pale flesh colour with pink nerves.
Petals lanceolate linear faleate much narrower than the upper
sepal. Lip as long as the sepals, three lobed. Side lobes falcate
subobtuse pubescent pink darkest at the tips terminal lobe longer
reniform bilobed, with a short tooth im the notch, disc between the
side lobes whitish with a central purple-pink line elevated, and
ending on the midlobe at the base in a transverse purple pink V,
a shorter keel runs on each side, base brown purple, apex dark pink
rest pale, dilated forwards and ending in a short raised wing at the
base of the side wings. Column broad with a short foot white,
Anther quadrate thin, pollinia subequal ovoid flattened bright
yellow, foot of column shorter than upper part adnate to the sepals.
‘This species is allied to #. xanthocheila, Ridl. and LH. carnea,
hid]. The hp however is distinct in the broad reniform retuse
midlobe, and the two short winged lateral keels, with the low median
linear one.
Tt was sent by Mr. Long from the Thaiping hills and flowered
in the Botanic Gardens Singapore, ] March 1910.
Hria saccata, n. sp.
Habit of Hria densa, Ridl. pseudobulbs sausage-shaped cylin-
dric 4 inches long 1 inch through. Leaf coriaceous slightly flaccid
lanceolate acute narrowed to the petiole 8 inches long 1$ inch wide.
Spikes 4 umelgs long rachis stout nigrohirsute. Bracts ovate white
reflexed + inch long, flowers numerous densely crowded yellowish
white. Ovary and pedicel half an inch long, covered with purple
scurfy hairs. Upper sepal ovate obtuse white, $ inch long, laterals
br oadly ovate forming between a long broad white aneritsbth nearly
R. A. Sac., No. 61, 1912.
40 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN -PLANTS.
half an inch long. Petals shorter than the sepals ovate triangular
obtuse pale pink. Lip as long as the sepals, claw long white, with
pink centre rather broad oblong deeply channelled, the ‘edges
meeting near the limb, limb fleshy broad orbicular not trilobed with
an irregular undulate margin, disc fleshy pustular, reddish with
yellow centre. Column rather straight pink, foot very straight
apex orange. Stelidia 2, acute subulate on each side. Anther
broad flat, "2 celled purple black with a broad white margin and a
short tooth at each side. Pollinia 8, pyriform pale yellow.
Perak: Gunong WNerbau (Md. Aniff) cult. in Hort. Bot.
Singapore, 1910.
Very odd from its long mentum like the spur of a saccolabium
and the complete absence of the basa! lobes to the hip near #. densa
and LH. rhynchostyloides,
Ceratostylis linearis, D. sp.
A tufted plant, with a short rhizome emitting close tufts of
stems with two leaves on each, rhizome covered with ovate lanceolate
ribbed brown sheaths. Leaves linear fleshy channelled above 24
inches long yg inch wide. Flowers solitary on a short 4 inch
peduncle with a long lanceolate acute brown, ribbed bract. Pedicel
terete white hairy, as long. Flower + inch long. Upper sepal ob-
long white pubescent, lower ones similar, prolonged at the base into
a cylindric obtuse spur as long as the ovary. Petals lanceolate
acuminate as long as the lip w hite with a purple patch on each end.
Lip as long as the sepals base broad side lobes short wpcurved,
seed lobe large ovate obtuse fleshy, all white. Column short and
broad, stelidia very short. nearly obsolete. Clinandrium deep
edged with purple. Anther skull-shaped large. Capsule elliptic
narrowed at the base } inch long.
Singapore: Passir Panjang on trees. Flowered July 1910.
Allied to C. cryptantha, Ridl. differing in the long acuminate
petals and very different lp.
Coclogyne casta, var. Gunong Semangkok.
This differs from the plant originally obtained in Bukit Hitam
by Ixelsall, in its shorter more conic thicker pseudobulbs and in its
broader leaves some of which attain to a foot with a breadth of
one inch and three quarters or even 2 inches, these leaves have a
lanceolate outline. Other plants had leaves exactly like the type.
The flowers exactly resemble those of the type but the yellow on the
lip is more brilliant and the bright brown veins pass into a bright
raw sienna blotch on the midlobe. The plant is very abundant at
Sempang and Gunong Semangkok and is deliciously fragrant.
Coelogyne concinna, n. sp.
Pseudobulbs ovoid 4 angled apex blunt deep green closely
appressed 1 inch long ? inch wide slightly flattened. “Lea elliptic
lanceolate acuminate narrowed at the hase thinly coriaceous 6 inches
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% NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 41
long 2 inches wide 5 nerved, petiole 3 inch. Flowers 1 or 2 from
the base of the pseudobulb, peduncle, 1 inch long covered with close
fitting sheaths lanceolate acuminate. Bract lanceolate acute white
eauducous. Pedicel and ovary half an inch long. Sepals lanceo-
late oblong subacute ereenish white 1$ inch long { inch wide.
Petals very narrow. linear as long white. Lip 1 ‘inch long, side
lobes rounded at the tip, midlobe as long oblong rounded at the
tip, keels 3, two running to the tip thick near the base minutely
papillose with a double row of papille, median keel not papillose,
disappearing in the centre of the tip, all white except the papille
and base of middle keel orange. Column half as long as the tip
white, clnandrum margin long rounded shghtly toothed. Anther
cap oad narrowed at horn ancl yellow.
Sumatra: Dolok Baros, Deli (coll. Moisseniac).
This pretty species was sent with other hving orchids from this
estate. It is allied to C. Cumingii but very different in form of the
pseudobulbs, size of flower and the lip.
Saccolabium latifolium var. parviflorum.
Leat lorate 9 inches long 14 inch wide. Panicle 18 inches
long, peduncle 10 inches, branches short and dense. Flowers hard-
ly 3 ‘inch across, nearly all bright yellow, sepals margined with red,
spur yellow. Gallus ‘in spur mouth broad oblong dentate with
several short teeth white. Pollinia globose, pedicel narrow linear,
disc rather broad oblong truncate.
Sempang: Matang “Road, Taiping (Goldham).
Though -this differs much in the size of the flowers from 8.
latifolium, Ridl. in which they are half an inch across and in the
other pots mentioned, the structure is all through so much the
same that I am unwilling to distinguish it specifically.
Podochilus sumatrensis, n. sp.
Stems several erect 5 inches tall occasionally emitting lateral
shoots. Leaves distichous articulate oblong, base slightly narrowed
apex obtuse, minutely bilobed, half an inch long } inch through
thick coriaceous shining grooved above. Racemes subterminal or
axillary slender many Aicvared half an inch long. Bracts ovate
lanceolate acuminate +45 inch long. Ovary twice as long glabrous
subterete. Flowers white $ inch long. Upper sepal oblong obtuse
laterals oblong ovate obtuse connate gibbous at base. Petals spa-
thulate oblong rounded at the tip base narrowed into a claw, nearly
as long, but not so wide as the sepals. Lip subtrilobed, side lobes
broad involute rounded at the tip, midlobe longer rounded a rather
broad double keel at the base. Column short, rostellum 3 toothed,
teeth lanceolate setaceous, the central one longest. Anther cup-
shaped with a long oblong straight beak. Pollinia 4 transparent
aciniform much shorter than the narrow lanceolate brown gland
(disc).
Sumatra: Deli Baros. Cult. in H, B. Singapore, June 1910,
R A. Soc., No 61, 1912.
42 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS.
Allied to P. Zolingeri, Rchb. f. differing in the straight not
oblique sepals, broader clawed petals, and three lobed lip.
SCITAMINEAR.
Amomum cylindrostachys, i. sp.
Stems about 6 feet. Leaves lanceolate acuminate cane gla-
brous, gradually narrowed to the base, 9 inches long 14 inch wide,
sheath glabrous about 6 inches long, ligule truncate oblong papillose
4 inch ‘long entire. Peduncles 5 “inches long covered with oblong
distant sheaths an inch long or less split to the base. | Spike eylin-
dric 3 inches long 1 inch “through. Bracts ovate lanceolate half
an inch long, + inch through green. Calyx 4 inch long ampliate
urceolate pale with three short lobes. Corolla # inch long, lobes
narrow lanceolate acute white. Lip 5 lobed, 2 inch long side lobes
short rounded, midlobe oblong truncate yellow darker in the centre
with 2 red marks at the base. Anther crest, trifid dark red, the
central lobe very short, the laterals narrow arcuate Jinear curved,
Selangor: Se ae Mines track on a bank at the foot of the
hill, April “1911 (No. 156).
This species is allied to A. squarrosum, Ridl, differing in its
glabrous leaves and thinner blunter bracts. ,
LILIACEAE.
Dracoena robusta, n. sp.
Stem 9 feet tall and nearly 2 inches through grey. Leaves
linear lanceolate acuminate acute, with broad bases 10 inches long
one inch across. Bracts on base of rachis linear acuminate.
Raceme unbranched stout over a foot long. Flowers in os of 3,
with three ovate acuminate bracts as long as the pedicels $ inch
long, numerous rather crowded. Perianth - 2 inch long, base dilated
pink, tube as long as the linear lobes apices of lobes. blunt, white.
Stamens shorter filaments three fourths of the length of the lobes.
Anthers oblong obtuse.
Selangor: Sempang Mines track in thick forest.
‘This seems to be nearest to ). Porteri of Wallich, a common
low slender shrublet usually two or three feet tall, but is very much
bigger and stouter in all parts.
Pandanus globuliferus, n. sp.
A dwarf pandan of the habit of P. parvus, Ridl., stem $ inch
through. Leaves linear acuminate caudate 8 inches to a foot long,
half an inch wide, margins armed with very small and slender
thorns, apex narrowed, with closer set thor ns, ending rather abruptly
in a long setaceous thorny point 2 inches long. Syncarps solitary
cermin globose an inch long with broad subtending bracts oblong
cuspidate “thor ny, as long and 4 inch wide. Peduncle 1 inch long.
Drupes with a rounded ‘broad top, not dilated. Style 4 inch long
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NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 43
very slender spiniform. Stigma for the whole length on the lower
Tace.
Selangor: Gunong Semangkok, at the top.
Allied to P. collinus, Ridl. but not bushy, leaves broader and
more abruptly caudate. Drupes not dilated at the top and stvle
much more slender. |
Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soe., No. 61, 1942.
A Botanical Excursion to Pulau Adang.
Invore Ne RIDLEY, CMG, B.R:S.
The group of islands of which Pulau Adang is the largest hes
to the west of the islands of Lankawi and Terutau. It consists of
3 fairly large island Pulau Adang, Pulau Rawi and Pulau Butong
and a number of smaller islets.
The flora of this outlying group had never been investigated
and I was glad of the opportunity afforded me by Mr, Robinson to
accompany him there in the “Seabelle,” in April. Leaving Kuala
Lumpur on April 18th, at 5 p.m., we arrived at Penang next
morning and starting again in the afternoon reached the islands on
April 20th., about daybreak. The party consisted of Mr. H. C.
Robinson, Mr. Seemund, Dr. Hanitsch and myself, with a number
of zoological collectors and my botanical collector. We brought
a motor-boat and with the aid of this and the ship’s gig landed
the collecting party on Pulau Rawi. The only signs of human
occupation were a few coconut palms and bushes of Justicia Ganda-
rusa.on the shore. Mr. Robinson and [ started through the woods
to climb the hill. On the seashore I saw a number of plants of
Geodorum purpureum but none in flower. The forest proved very
poor as a collecting ground, consisting of a number of big trees
rather scattered, and an abundance of climbing lianes, chief of
which were Agelaea vestita, some Menispermaceae, a chmbing
bamboo like one seen at Alor Star, Ca/ami and Horthalsias. The
undergrowth was scanty, a red Jxora (I stricta) and other shrubs,
Corymbis veratrifolia, and Aspidium polymorphum. The most
striking tree was the tall Randia exaltata 30 feet or more high and
9 inches through. It was in flower and we felled one to secure
specimens. The flowers are white spotted within the tube with
black. It occurs also in Penang, Burmah and the Andamans.
Returning to the shore we found the littoral vegetation consisting
of Vitex pubescens, Terminalia Catappa, Barringtonia SPeCvosi
(very big trees with the branches curiously ringed), Desmodium
umbellatum, Stemona Curtisii, ete. The Barringtonias bore great
quantity of Drynaria and a pale pink flowered Hoya (a . para-
sitica) grew over the boughs.
Some of the Dyaks returning from collecting brought Acan-
thus iNicifolius, Eulophia Keithii and Saceolabium miserum with
its little inconspicuous yellow and white flowers.
In the afternoon we went in the motor-boat to a bay in the
eastern part of the same island. Here the steep rocks were covered
with scented species of Andropogon which however was flowerless
and only bore in place of flowers small branches of reduced leaves.
Plants brought to Singapore and grown there have done the same.
Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soe., No. &, 1912.
46 A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG.
A pretty slender bamboo of a new species abounded here, and
flowering specimens were obtained later. Dillenia aurea, Sm., was
in flower but as usual at that time nearly leafless. In the evening
we went ashore at Pulau Butong and found Prismatomeris albidi-
flora in full flower, a beautiful little shrub Memecylon with charm-
ing little blue flowers and a Bombax, quite a small tree, in fruit.
Cordia subcordata is abundant on the ‘seashore here.
21st April:—We went to the bay we were in at Pulau Rawi
yesterday and followed the stream up nearly to its source, pushing
through the low swampy woods or wading along the stream bed.
There is a patch of mangrove in Aes river mouth. Oncosperma
filamentosa and a large species of Pinanga forming big clumps
(P. adangensis) are abundant in the low swampy w oods.
The river sandy, at the mouth becomes rocky higher up with
large masses of hornblende, granite and sandstone. The flora of
these rocks is rather poor considering the altitude we got to. A
dwarf Ophiorrhiza, Begonia sinuata, Podochilus lucescens are the
most noticeable plants.
The “ Seabelle ” moved from her anchorage in Rawi bay and
picked us up at 2 o’clock and we moved on to Pulau Adang where
we went on shore in a beautiful bay with a large sized stream
entering it. A very big Dracaena about fifty feet tall and much
branched with erect branches occurred here and was in fruit. It
appeared to be a very large state of Dracaena aurantiaca, Wall..
but I never before saw one so large. A single tree of Casuarina
equiselifolia grew in this bay, and we found seedlings in Rawt bay.
The tree was very abundant at the east end of the island forming
a regwuar wood, and also on the opposite island of Pulau Nipis.
These trees have a habit of growing so regularly spaced that they
often quite look as if they had been planted. The sand beneath
is almost bare of vegetation. From the distance of the, Rawi
seedlings from any adult tree and their position I am inclined to
think that this plant owes its dispersal more to the sea currents
than to the wind in spite of its winged seeds.
22nd April:—Mat and I with a boatman pushed up the stream
which is rocky, here and there high walls of rock, and on a big
rock near the top found a Begonia new to me with flowers, and
Arisaema Kunstlert, and Vitis “discolor and eventually reached the
top of the ridge. Here were many plants of a species of Daemo-
norops none of which showed any signs of having ever flowered,
but seemed to propagate themselves “py layering “their branches,
giving us an opportunity of getting reversed rattan walking sticks.
These when made up are very puzzling to those who do not know
how they are produced, as the leaf sheaths point to the roots instead
of away from them. The branches laver and produce a more or
less clubbed end and by cutting the stem between one rooting
portion and the next one can obtain a rattan in which the leaves
appear to have grewn towards the root instead of away from it.
The top of the ridge was dry and barren, about 1,000 feet altitude
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A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG. 47
above the sea. Curculigo latifolia, a few Pandans and a Lorn-
stedtia without flowers were the chief plants. A hermit who eats
only once a year or on occasions once in three months is believed
to reside here. A furious storm of rain with thunder and lightning
came on when we were half way down, and we took refuge Deneath
a rock. On reaching the stream again, we found Gnetum macros-
lachyum in fruit and on pulling it down brought down a spray of
a laurineous three new to me. Diplerocarpaceue and Anonaceae,
some of the former of large size are abundant in the woods.
In the evening we w ent to Pulau Nipis the point of which is
a sandy beach with a wood of Casuarinas. Here we found a
curious creeping form of Wedelia biflora with unusually small
heads. Tournefortia argentea (new to our flora though a common
plant on the shores of many of the Malay islands), //ernandia
pellata and Ochrosia im fruit. None of these at all common in
our region. Besides these were /ponea-pes-caprae, Scoevola
Koenig. Cassytha filiformis, Ischoemum muticum, Hibiscus tili-
aceus, Calophyllum itnophyllum and Verminalia Catappa. Be-
hind this seashore-sand was a wood in which were a number of
Tvoras and Weberas, and hete we found Pogonia flabelliformis in
leaf and flower, Hulophea greminea, a clump of what appeared to
be Calanthe vestita in a decayed bough on the ground and Dendro-
bium secundum.
Next morning I went to the pomt of Pulau Adang where the
Casuarina groye was to look for a sedge which Mr. Robinson had
told me of and found it to be Remirea maritima. The ground
beneath the Casuarinas was quite bare and the trees bore no epi-
phytes. The pretty lizard Liolepis Bellii was abundant here.
Near this point Colubrina asiatica was common and Capparis
micracantha, in the form of a bush, in fruit.
Returning to the “ Seabelle” we steamed for Pulau Tengah,
and on the way was two laller-whales Orca gladiator, a new main-
mal to peninsular waters. We reached Pulau Tengah by midday.
Lt ests of two islands separated by a strong running shallow
sea current, too deep however to wade. On Janding the plant
collector and I attempted to scale the main hill of the island, the
top of which was clad by a forest of bananas. The forest was
dense and consisted mainly of the prickly Phyllochlamys Wallichti
and strong woody climbers with big trees interspersed. We obtain-
ed specimens of the banana which proved to be Musa Malaccensis.
We returned to the base of the Ill and walked along the coast. to
the north to some very high vertical cliffs. The shore was covered
with boulders of laterite, slate and indurated clay. he cliffs
seemed to consist entirely of this brown clay hardened into rock; at
their base were screes of disentegrated clay, steep and slippery.
At the base of the hill we found Peristrophe tinctoria, a plant I
have never seen elsewhere except as a garden escape, but there were
no signs of this place ever having been under cultivation. On the
screes we found a new species of Amorphophallus, with a creamy
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48 A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG.
white spadix and a green spathe. Pleopeltis phymatodes was very
abundant. We did “not find this common fern at all in the rest
of the Pulau Adang group of islands. It was intensely hot and we
returned to the southern shore, finding abundance of fruits of
Gyrocarpus Jacquinii, a tree not common further south.
After collecting a little along the shore and bathing we return-
ed to the boat and left for Kwala Malacca in the Lankawi islands,
arriving off Burau bay in the evening where we anchored for the
night. Next day we landed and ws alked up to the 7 Wells, Telayah
Tujoh ; a good track leads to this spot. On the way | collected a
good many plants of interest, H/ettariopsis pubescens, Pteris cretica
the erey- -leaved variety, a pretty new species of Phyllanthus of the
Reidia section Ph., and found Mesua ferrea in flower.
The seven wells are formed by a stream which descending
from the hill behind spreads over a wide space of smooth grey rock.
In this are excavated by the water a number of basins, some of
which are deep enough to bathe in, and these are the seven wells.
The stream then falls over a precipitous slope. The spot is a
favourite one for Malay picnics, and the water is supposed to have
valuable properties and the men drank some and took bottles home
with them, which made them all ill as the water is obviously not
fit to drink. The view from this stream is very fine. The rugged
range of Gunong Chinchang rises on one side, and on the other are
hills clad in dense forest, forming an amphitheatre at the end of
which is the deep blue sea. The stream at this point is about 1,000
feet above sea level.
We returned from here to Penang and then to Kuala Lumpur
and so home.
The most noticeable part about the flora as a whole was its
difference from that of the Lankawi islands especially in the pre-
ponderance of Malayan as opposed to southern Siamese plants.
Naturally the two groups of islands being so near, there were a
number of plants characteristic of the south Siamese flora as laid
down 1n a previous paper, but there were also a number of Malay
Peninsula forms, such as Agelaea, Urophyllum, Lasianthus, some
of the Dipterocarpeae and Anonaceae, etc. The flora suggests
rather an affinity with the Pulau Song-Song group of islands off
the Kedah coast which contains nothing or little of the south
Siamese flora. It seems too to have relations with the Andaman
islands which are not at all connected with the south Siamese plants
but which have a Malayan flora. On the seashores of the Adang
group we have a series of plants which are absent almost entirely
from the Malay Peninsula, One barbonica, Tournefortia argen-
tea, [ernandia peltata, and Gyrocarpus. ‘The Ochrosia is only
known as native in the Peninsula from a specimen said to be
collected in Singapore by Wallich. It has never been seen here
again. ‘Tournefortia argentea has not been seen in our region at
all, but occurs in St. Barbe isle south of Singapore and along the
Malay isles to the Pacific. Hernandia peltata is at least rare on
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A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG, 49
our coasts. Cordia subcordata too is scarce occurring in Pulau
Song-Song, the Dindings and from Bintang island to the Pacific.
All these seem absent or nearly so from the west coast of the
Peninsula, although there are at least some suitable spots for them
to grow, and quite absent from the east coast where the locality is
more suitable, yet all occur in the Indian region and still more
abundantly all over the Malay Archipelago to the Pacific.
DILLENIACEAE.
Tetracera assa, De C.
Pulau Rawi.
Dillenia aurea, Sm. 5
Pulau Rawi.
ANONACEAE.
Unona dasymaschala, Bl.
Woods, Pulau Tengah. Peter
Goniothalamus macrophyllus, Hook. fil. 3
Pulau Adang.
Oxymitra glauca, Hook. fil.
Pulau Adang.
Polyalthia parviflora, n. sp.
Small tree, bark black, young parts covered with brown hair.
Leaves thin coriaceous glabrous except the midrib, which is scurfy
on the back. nerves about 6 pairs inarching well within the margin,
3-4 inches long, ?-13 inch wide, dark above, pale, shining beneath,
petiole $ inch long hairy. Flowers solitary axillary nearly sessile ;
pedicel very short hairy. Sepals ovate lanceolate half as long as
the petals densely hairy. Petals spreading “ white,’ lnear oblong
obtuse slightly narrowed to the tip $ inch long hairy on both
surfaces. Stamens very numerous oblong with a broad rounded
appendage. Fruit oblong to globose 2 inch long, sessile, hairy at
the tip when young.
Pulau Tengah; Lankawi at Kwala Malacca (Curtis 2533).
The foliage somewhat resembles that of P. Teysmanni, Miq.
The very small hairy flower is very distinctive.
CAPPARIDEAE. —
Capparis micracantha, De C.
Seashore, Pulau Tengah and Pulau Adang in fruit.
GUTTIFERAE.
Garcinia, sp.
Pulau Rawi. Big tree in forests.
Calophyllum inophyllum, L.
Pulau Nipis.
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\ A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO EULAU ADANG.
VIOLACEAE.
Alsodeia hisyda, n. sp.
Branches hairy, leaves thin herbaceous elliptic acuminate ; base
cuneate or acuminate, margins serrate, nerves 7 pairs, slender, mid-
rib nerves and reticulations hairy, 6 inches long, 24 inches wide,
A | petiole + inch long hairy. Flowers in short axillary cymes, shorter
mt | than the petiole, and sessile with small ovate bracts, all glabrous.
Pedicels 5 inch long. Calyx sepals ovate acuminate pubescent,
more than half as long as the petals. Petals lanceolate or elliptic,
lanceolate ciliate on the edges #5 inch long. Stamens, filament
| very short, anther cells elliptic, separate, connective, very large
it | ovate acuminate, no other processes. Pistil longer bottle-shaped
narrowed upwards, glabrous. Stigma discoid. Dise hairy.
Pulau Adang.
RUTACEAE.
Glycosmis pentaphylla, Correa.
Pulau Rawi. :
Glycosmis rupestris, Ridl. |
Pulau Tengah and Pulau Adang.
Distribution: Perlis and Kedah.
Atalantia monophylla, Correa.
Pulau Tengah.
SIMARUBACEAE.
Hurycoma longifolia, Jack.
Woods, Pulau Rawi.
OCHNACEAE.
Ochna grandis, Ridl.
Pulau Butong.
Distribution: Perlis.
DIPTEROCARPEAE.
Dipterocarpus Hasseltii, Bl.
In fruit, Pulau Butong.
Dipterocarpus grandiflorus, Blanco.
In fruit, Pulau Butong.
Vatica cinerea, King.
Common medium-sized tree on the seashore.
Pulau Rawi and Pulau Adang.
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MALVACEAE.
Bombax malabaricum, De C.
A small tree in fruit. Pulau Adang.
Hibiscus tiliaceus, L.
Pulau Nipis, ete.
STERCULIACEAE.
TTelicteres angustifolia, L.
Flowers pink. Dry rocks, Pulau Rawi.
Helicteres hirsuta, Lour.
With the last 1 Pulau Rawi.
Sterculia laevis, Wall.
Pulau Nipis.
AMPELIDEAR.
Leea sambucina, Wild.
Pulau Rawi.
Vitis discolor, Dalz.
Rocks, Pulau Adang.
RHAMNEARE.
Colubrina asiatica, Brnegn.
Seashore, Pulau Adang.
CELASTRINEAR.
Salacia flavescens, Kurz.
Pulau Rawi, woods.
ANACARDIACEAE.
Buchanamia acuminata, Turez.
Pulau Nipis.
COoNNARACEAR,
Agelaca vestila, Hook. fil.
Pulau Rawi.
LEGUMINOSAD.
Hrythrina, sp.
A tree with large leaves in fruit. Calyx bilobed, lower lobe
longer than the upper one. Pod 1 or 2 seeded, with a narrow hase,
then dilated at the seed-bearing portion and abruptiy narrowed
to a long point.
Seashore, Pulau Tengah,
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52 A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG.
Pongamia glabra, Vent.
Pulau Tengah,
Desmodium vestitum, Benth.
A shrub about 6 feet tall with mauve flowers. Pulau Butong.
Previously known only from Malabar and Tenasserim.
Desmodium umbellatum, De C.
Seashore, Pulau Rawi.
Mucuna gigantea, De C.
Pulau ‘Tengah.
Peltophorum ferrugineum, Benth.
Big tree, seashore, Pulau Rawi.
Albizzia myriophylla, Benth.
Seashore, Pulau Butong and Pulau Adang.
MELASTOMACEAE.
Melastoma malabathricum, var appressum.
Pulau Rawi.
Memecylon coeruleum, Jack.
Sea coasts, Pulau Rawi.
Memecylon garcinioides, Bl.
Pulau Adang.
Memecylon edule, Roxb.
Pulau Adang and Pulau Butong.
Memecylon pulchellum, n. sp.
A shrub or small tree, bark ridged longitudinally brown, twigs
angled slender. Leaves rhomboid ovate gradually narrowed to both
ends from the middle, obtuse at the apex, shining dull green above
when dry; smooth olive green beneath, midrib depressed above,
elevate beneath, nerves faintly visible, above 7 pairs, with a marginal
one from the base 14 inch long # inch wide, petiole 45 inch long.
Flowers in short dense very shortly peduncled cymes. Peduncles
35 inch long. Bracts lanceolate acuminate. Pedicels + inch long.
Calyx fundus very short in flower with 4 triangular teeth suddenly
subulate. Petals ovate cuspidate azure blue = inch long. Sta-
mens filaments slender bluish. Anthers curved yellowish with a
conic blue spur behind. Style brilliant blue.
Pulau Adang, Rawi and Butong on the seashore. A lovely
shrub when in flower with innumerable tufts of blue flowers in the
axils,
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A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG. 53
MYRTACEAE.
Eugenia Scortechinu, King.
By the river, Pulau Rawi.
Barringtonia speciosa, Forst.
Seashore, Pulau Rawi.
RHIZOPHORACEAE.
Brugniera caryophylloides, Bl.
Pulau Butong.
COMBRETACEAE.
Terminalia catappa, L.
Common on the shore, Pulau Adang, Rawi. ete.
Gyrocarpus Jacquni, Roxb.
Pulau 'Fengah. Also collected on Pulau Badak, by Curtis.
This does not seem to occur south of this region, in the Penin-
sula, the leaves and fruits are quite glabrous. ‘The Gyrocarpus on
Christmas island differs not only in the remarkable appearance of
the tree but in having the leaves and fruits pubescent.
BEGONIACEAE.
Begonia sinuata, Wall.
Rocks by the stream, Pulau Rawi.
Begonia, sp.
A plant with solitary ovate acuminate leaves, on Pulau Adang.
I have not seen this species elsewhere.
SAMYDACEAE.
Homalium Griffithianum, Karz.
Tree on the sea coast on. rocks, Pulau Rawi. ‘The same small-
leaved form which I got at Perlis.
ARALIACEAE.
Heptapleurum venulosum, Seem.
Pulau Sarang and Pulau Adang.
RUBIACEAE.
Urophyllum glabrum, Griff.
Pulau Nipis. A form with shoots and leaves puberulous.
Heydyotis congesta, R. Br. 7 is
~ Pulau Rawi. eee
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54 A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG.
Randia evaltata, Griff.
Pulau Rawi. |
Distribution: Penang, Andamans and Burmah.
Randia fasciculata, De C.
3
Pulau Rawi.
Distribution; north of the Malay Peninsula.
Randia densiflora, Benth.
Pulau Rawi.
Catnhium didymum, Gaertn.
Pulau Butong and Pulau Tengah.
Form with coriaceous leaves.
Prismatomeris albidiflora, Thw.
Pulau Butong.
Pavetta indica, lL. var.
Pulau Adang.
lvora multibracteata, Pears.
Pulau Adang.
lTvora Brunonis, Wall.
Pulau Adang.
Txora stricta, Roxb.
Pulau Adang.
Psychotria stipulacea, Wall.
Common shrub in the woods. Pulau Rawi.
Lasianthus cyanocarpus, Jack. :
Pulau Adang.
Webera adangensis, n. sp.
Shrub branches with white bark. Leaves variable in size
ovate acuminate acute, base cuneate glabrous membranaceous dry-
ing black, nerves 6 pairs slender prominent on both sides, midrib
grooved above + to 6 inches long 14 inch to 2 inches wide, petiole
+ inch long. Stipules small connate ovate obtuse. Cyme ter-
minal nearly sessile 1 inch long and somewhat wider, glabrous,
branches spreading nearly an inch long or less. Bracts lanceolate
acuminate s'5 Inch long. Pedicels § inch long with 2 minute ovate
bracts. Calyx short +’, inch long cup-shaped with 5 ovate lobes
as long as the ovary. Corolla white + inch long, tube rather thick
cylindric twice as long as the calyx, with dense white hairs in the
mouth, lobes oblong subobtuse, 5. Stamens exsert linear minutely
mucronate. Style nearly as long or longer than the petals.
Stigma cylindric clubbed, pubescent.
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A BOTANICAL-EXCURSION TO-PUEAU ADANG. 55
Pulau Adang.
Near Webera Curtis, Wing, but with glabrous inflorescence
and thinner leaves, and white stem.
W tera stellulata, inal fil.
Pulau Tengah and Rawi.
Webera longifolia, Hook. fil.
Pulau Tengah.
Webera insularis, 0. sp.
Shrub, branches grey. Leaves thickly membranous glabrous,
elliptic acuminate black and shining when -dry, nerves prominent
d to 6 pairs, 3 inches long by 14 inch wide; petiole rather slender
+ lnch long. Stipules lanceolate subulate § inch long caducous.
Cymes short 1 inch long rather compact quite glabrous, branches
half an inch long. Bracts ovate acute, bracteoles lanceolate acute.
Calyx 45 inch long, tube subglobose, lobes longer lanceolate linear
obtuse. Corolla tube cylindric twice as long as the calyx lobes,
lobes lanceolate acuminate longer than the calyx tube 4 inch long
mouth of tube hairy. Stamens linear minutely mucronate. Style
hairy protruding for } inch long. Stigma clubbed.
Pulau Nipis in sandy woods by the sea.
Nearest perhaps in some points to W. Ridley, Pears, differing
from W. Curtisii, in its longer calyx lobes and glabrous inflores-
cence.
Ophiorrliza fontinalis, n. sp,
Herb, 3 to 8 inches tall, stems usually solitary scurfy pubescent.
Leaves lanceolate or ovate lanceolate thin shortly acuminate blunt,
above sprinkled with short pustular hairs especially on the edge,
beneath glaucous green, the nerves iy scurfy pubescent. Stipules
short truncate caducous. Peduncle 3-1 inch long scurfy pubescent.
Cymes $ to ca inch long, branches Limes about six-flowered each.
Calyx short 75 inch long; lobes very short pubescent. Corolla
white 4 inch long; tube cylindric straight lobes lanceolate acute.
Fruit transversely ‘elliptic, tips rounded, margin straight not in-
dented § inch long +5 inch deep.
Rawi island on rocks at the upper part of the stream. Lan-
kawi, Telaya Tujoh near Burau on rocks in the stream.
Tt most resembles O. tenella but its narrow leaves and other
points distinguish it.
O. Harrisiana, var.
Pulau Adang.
Distinct from typical Harrisiana in its much larg ger i leaves and
more woody stem. It is over a foot tall.
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56 A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG.
COMPOSITAE.
Wedeha bifloru, De C.
A prostrate form with small heads of flowers in sand. Pulau
Nipis.
GOODENOVIEAE.
Scaevala Koengu, Vahl.
Pulau Nipis.
SAPOTACEAE.
Sideroxylon ferrugineum, Hook.
Pulau Sarang and Pulau Adang.
| EBENACEAE.
Maba buvifolia, Pers.
Pulau Sarang and Pulau Adang.
Diospyros flavicans, Hiern.
Pulau Rawi.
Diospyros Wallichti, Wing and Gamble.
Palau Rawi and Pulau Adang.
APOCYNACEAE.
Holarrhena densiflora, Rid.
In long grass on rocks on Pulau Rawi.
Distribution: Setul.
Ochrosia borbonica, Gmel.
Pulau Nipis.
ASCLEPIADEAE.
Marsdenia volubilis, Cooke.
Pulau Tengah.
HToya parasitica, Wall.
On trees by the sea, Pulau Adang.
Dischidia nummularia, Br.’
Pulau Butong.
Dischidia benghalensis, Colebr.
Pulau Rawi.
BORAGINEAE.
Cordia subcordata, Lam.
Pulau Butong.
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A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG. 57
Tournefortia argentea, Li. f.
Pulau Nipis. 7
Distribution: Ceylon, Nicobars, Mauritius, Malay Islands, and
Polynesia.
Vike CONVOLVULACEAE.
Tpomaca campanulata, L.
Pulau Tengah in fruit only.
Ipomaea pes-caprae, Roth.
Pulau Nipis.
ACANTHACEAE.
Acanthus ilicifolius, L.
Pulau Rawi.
Hranthemum porphyranthos, Clarke.
Seashore in sandy spots. Pulau Butong, Pulau Adang and
Pulau Tengah.
Gymnostachyum insulare, n. sp.
Herb about 2 feet tall, glabrous. Internodes long 3. inches.
Leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends, herbaceous, 7 nerved,
7 inches long 24 inches wide, petiole slender 1 inch long. Panicle
lax, terminal, branches short to 2 inches long. Bracts linear
acuminate 34 inch long. Pedicels ~5 inch long, in flower, twice
as long and thicker in fruit. Calyx lobes lanceolate acuminate as
long as the corolla tube § inch long. Corolla tube short and thick,
little longer than the lobes, limb 4 inch across pubescent. Upper
lip bilobed with 2 equal oblong lobes rounded at the tip. Lower
lip with 3 rounded lobes of which the centre is the widest. Stamens
%, filaments exsert. Anthers oblong 2-celled. Cells equal and
parallel, no appendage. Style longer, stout, apex decurved.
Capsule not flattened terete, an inch long borne on a thickened
lengthened stem; the base of the calyx swollen globose. Sepals
persistent retinacula, oblong with a rounded apex, yellowish flat,
obscurely reticulate $ inch long.
Rawi island.
Allied to G. magnum, Clarke, of Tampin Hill in Malacca,
(differing in its lanceolate glabrous leaves, (those of G. magnum
being scurfily pubescent in the midrib and nerves beneath.)
Justicia gendarusa, L.
Pulau Rawi.
Justicia inconspicua, n. sp.
A tall slender weeding straggling herb, internodes often as
much as 3 inches long, nodes swollen, scurfy pubescent with
appressed hairs. Leaves large lanceolate acuminate membrana-
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58 A BOTANIGAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG.
ceous, acute, base cuneate, aequilateral or nearly so at the base,
5 inches long 1$ inch across, nerves 7-8 pairs elevate beneath and
inarching within the margin, glabrous, except the nerves which
are pubescent. Small opposite leaf, ovate. obovate 14 inch long, #¢
inch wide or less, petiole = inch long. Cymes axillary subterminal
1 inch long. Peduncle slender half the length. Bracts minute
linear subulate hairy. Calyx lobes linear setaceous 344 inch long.
Corolla half an inch long; tube as long as the calyx lobes, upper
limb lanceolate narrow, lower limb broad widely 3-lobed, lobes
oblong, laterals incurved, median broader, blunt, white. Lower
lobe purple. Stamens exsert: anther cells brown, unequal, one
above the other, appendage rather large, white, ending in a broad
hook.
Rawi island in shady woods by the sea beach, (5899). Also
collected in Pahang in 1891.
I took this for the imperfectly described J. alternifolia, Clarke,
but that is described as having markedly unequal-sided leaves.
Peristrophe tinctoria, Nees.
Pulau Tengah. Apparently really wild here.
VERBENACEAE.
Premma trichostoma, Maiq.
Pulau Adang.
Vilex pubescens, Vahl.
Pulau Rawi.
APHTALAE.
NYCTAGINEAE.
Deeringia celosioides, R. Br.
Pulau Tengah.
LAURINEAE.
Cassytha filiformis, WL.
Pulau Nipis. Bin 1850
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THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE. 99
No. NAME DESCRIPTION
49 Stephen Tan
50 Simon Tan Ke
Hong
50a Minjoot,John Infant Son of D. De
Luis Anna Cotta and C. Minjoot
Cleto
51 Minjoot, Maria Widow of the late
Frederick Frederick Minjoot,
of Malacca
52 Wood, John Infant Son of Johannes
Wood
53 Paulo Ng Of Ka-yin chu (Kheh)
a-Thiam Nephew of Yung Shu
57 Maria Lau Wife of Ngi a-Chuan
Kiau
59 Tan Khai Guan
62 Di. Oliveero,
Nicholsow
Born at Penang
63 Sohier, Philip (Inscription illegible)
Gioia Yons © Of Se Bits: Ka-yin-
Thiam chu, [Kheh] father
of Matthew Sz.-
Chhun gnd. father of
Sekaliea =) Vio ne
Sang Cart a-Lan,
Kin-niong and Yin-
niong
68 James Bu-Kho
a Sui
—>~- Bes,
69 Pedro Lim of Pa BIS TI ae EN
Tiong Hi
69a So. Chhid Kai Of Shii-Heng. [Near
Canton |
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BoRN DIED AGE
11m 26d
1792
(216 Jan. 3 Mar.
1852 +1852
24 Sept. 27 Ap.
Leon lsos
26 June 19 Jan
1861? 1864
7 Nov. 07
1858
3) Wigwe sal
1848 June
1849
1847-8
1822-3 "26
Nov.
1843
6 Dec. 18 66
1788 Dec. yrs.
leis: 1D
days
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Feb.
1862
1-3
p.m.
2° 6" 8July
1784 1849
(216 July
1844)
1814-5 19
Oct.
1847 34
100 THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
No. NAME DESCRIPTION BoRN DIED AGE
70 Ariea (?) Mother of Josia Lo 14
Teng-niu', Rosa Ma- Mar.
ria and Matthew 1853
9-11
a.m.
72 Melany, Peter Second son of S. 1Nov. 2
Melany 1835 yrs.
8
mos.
73 Fransiz, Wife of A. T. Fransiz ig@. 32
Martha Mar. yrs.
1835
80 Martha Mother of (S)teven (?) the >
a-Kio, Tek-niu” and 1841
Hong-niu"™
52 Joseph Tan a- 1864-5 26
Ku
83 Pedro Heng
Kwong Ko
Paulo Heng
Kwang Ju
84 Olivaro, A ie el’
Andrexe 7 Mar.
and 1860
~ Welsh, James 10° =, 52
July yrs.
1863-2
mos.
19
days
85 Scheerder, Wife of Johannes 16 98
Louisa Cecilia Scheerder Nov. yrs.
: 1869 &
mos.
16
days
87 Headstone (Inscription illegible)
87a James Ngo 1805-6 29
: May
| 1856
89 Hansen, Ann Wife of John Francis 18 July 30 27
Elizabeth Hansen 1830 > Jame ays:
1858 6
mos.
12
days
Tour. Straits Branch
THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE. IOI
No. NAME DESCRIPTION BoRN DIED AGE
90 Woodford, Son of James Isaiah 1:53 4
Samuel and Dorothea Wood- Feb. yrs.
Arthur ford 1845 6
: . mos.
9
days
Woodford, Wife of James Isaiah 3 Oct. 37
Dorothea Woodford 1850 yrs.
5
mos.
10
days
91 Blaver, 12 38
Antoine Mare July
1863
92 Jacob Ngin
Pia”
93 Thomas Bun 31
Beng Thai Mar.
meee 1861
93h James Heng = of EE EERE, iH BB i
Tiang Seng ; : Dec.
Kit-ye" | Tiechiu] 1849
94 VincentioLiz: o, pH SyIE ap ; 31
Sans on one Ae.
7 Tiechiu Prefecture 1833 1863
95 Joseph Negin 2 ales 6
Yong Seng 1823-4 Mar.
: 1-3 a.m... 1857
96 Bello, Don 30-28
Jose Gonzalex April
1860
99 Paulo Hen Fo Of ae Ra 4s Ka-yin- 1865-
Siu ¢hu (Kheh) 6
101 Francisco Ko Father of Stephen and
(2) Thai Seng ‘Lo-jia-Bong’
102 Statoo, Antonia Widow of Zacharias 23), 29
Catherina Statoo, born in Sept.
Applo Penang 1852
103. Joseph NgTsz Friend of Hu Soe &c. 1811-12 DO BT
Jan!
1847
104 Pedro Tiu” 4
Thien Siong Jan.
1847
R. A, Soc., No. 61, 1912.
102 THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
No. NAME DESCRIPTION BorN DIED AGE
105 Paulo Yong Of Chin Phin, Ka-yin 1819-20 26
Liuk chu (Kheh) May
1846
106 Benedict Vong Of Ka-yin-chu(Kheh) 1794-5 1846-
a Ngi 7
111. Wooden, Wife of S. Wooden 30
Brezeda June
1846
116 Paulo Yeo" 1832-3 21 Feb. 26
1857
117 Rough, Captain Late Marine Surveyor 23 May 6 38
John for this Port. Born 91604 Jan.
at Dundee 1844
120 Hinnekindt, A mes enfants
Eugéne
121 Joaquim Lan Parents of Matthew, 1811-2 30
Chhun John, Eranciso, June
Joanna Louis and Anna 1824-5 1860
Sele 1-3
p.m.
25
Aug.
ae ee See, 1860
PRS? ae ee 5-7
3 p.m.
122 Brown, John Second son of Wm. 24
Brown of Egypt May 27
Park Paisley 1845 yrs.
123° Cecilia Ng Mother of Francisco 26
April
1862
124 Paulo Ki Oai oat) Ba AS 95 =44
eg tee, July
1244 Sit Yu Ngo
Lau Lo Leng His wife oy
125 Hinnekindt, A notre chére enfant tps
Numa < | 1865 mos.
127 Pereira, M. L. — 2 Jan. oo
dys
Jour. Straits Branch
THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE. 108
No. NAME DESCRIPTION BoRN DIED AGE
129 Chung Fat Of er tis {— 2% HI Aut-
Long © ee ena - umn
| Ka-yin-chu (Kheh) 1858
130 Nell, Henry: OC ar
June
1844
132 Pedro Chung Friend of Vincentio 12
Khe Tan Lau Tsu Hah Feb.
=: 1846
133 Pedro Yeo" Ju go, 93 GE Teng-Hai 18
(Tie-chiu) father of April
Thaddeus Yeo” Ju 1846
134 Pedro LiKam of HA ye spi Elstar’, aU
imps une
(Tie-chiu) oe
185 Paulo Kong Of Ka-yin-chu
Hi (tomb erected in 4th
m. 1846)
136 Jacob Lo Ps Of San-Neng (Canton) 21
. May
p 1846
137 Pedro Kilen of ef RD mMeehit 4
Jan.
1847
138 Tereira, Paul ep eee,
Aug.
1834
139 DeAlmeida, . Infant daughter of 15 June 10
Ella Mrs. Maria Izabel 1833 IA TNO.
and José DeAlmeida May 27
Esa. 1834 dys
140 DeAlmeida, Infant ‘son of Mrs. 29 Jan. 6 I
Charles Maria Izabel and 1835 Feb.. yr.
José DeAlmeida ISG fs
dys.
142 Louis Thong Of Thai-pu, god-father
Son Pak of Chong Lien, Lai
Yin and Chung Fu
(tomb repaired in
Winter 1863)
145 Athama Phua" A woman 29,
SFG, « dittne
1829 1849
146 Joseph So
Cheng Tong Of Tiechiu
R. A. Soc., No. 61, 1912.
104 THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
149
154
168
NAME DESCRIPTION BorRN DIED AGE
John Tiu" Nei op PARI Hai-ver
Kiat Tiechiu elder brother oa
of Ngi Tiang and 10°. 6". July
Ngi Kok 1818 1860
D’ Almeida, Infant daughter of ids | 1
Maria Kugé- Rose Maria and Joa- Jan. year
nia quim D’ Almeida Esq. 1846. -¥
days
Anton Tan Tio 5 May
1852
Lopez, Dona 18 a3
Maria Engra- Jan. yrs.
cla 1846 2
| ) mos
Ball, John Boatswain in U.S.A. 35
Navy, died on board yrs.
the U.S. Ship “John
Adams”. Also two
Shipmates James
Gibson and John
Rice.
Alliandre, Bie es Fe)
Sibrino Jan.
1853
Taylor, Charles (Rest illegible)
Henry
Maria Heng Wife of Lim Chi Kho 13
Sep.
1859
Matthias Tan o-Jan.
Kim 1847
Wilson, John Late Master of the 28
, barque © Jane Nov.
Wilson’’ of Greenock 1844 35
Chu a-Phua"
Anthony Yeo" Father of a-Soan ate 47
‘Kong Lan (tomb erected in 3rd
m. 1858)
Ross, John Marine Surveyor for AY est
this Port. Master Sep.
Mariner inthe Singa- 1844 |
pore and Batavia
trade
Bareey, 2B. . 20
Aug.
1861
Jour. Straits Branch
THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE. 105
No. NAME DESCRIPTION BoRN DIED AGE.
170 Joseph Kho 1781 9 May
Tek I (2 1841) 1857
171 Paulo Na”® Khi Three years old 1862 12
Mui Feb.
[1864 |
172 Thomas Tan 5 2 2.0
K6 (2) of ee Me ahaa
HME GS)
173 Domingo Yong Of Yong-kong, Shiu- | 2
Hon heng (Canton) June
1849
174 de Thune, Le October Oct.
Comte 1803 1863
175 James Chan 28
Tek Sun : May *
1825-6 1863
176 Joseph Heng Father of Heng Chho 12
Che Lai May
1812-3 1863
Miieeeaulos lia: (2 Date of birth) 1837
Seng Thai
178 Stéphen Vun Of Hin-nen, Ka-yin-
Fo Siu chu [Kheh! Tomb
repaired in 2nd m.
1862
179 Nicolo Vong Of {f{ A Lane, 3f£ (?)
Sz Pong AH VE (2) §fh Ka-
yin-chu | Kheh|]
Father of Khet-on
| and a-Moi
180 Pedro Tan Of 4 "er 5B Hai- Ye" 11
Thian Sun : April
Tiechiu 1849
181 Andrew Ng To : 129" = £5
Kuan 1821-:- Sept.
. 1849
184 Anthony Infant son of Heng 20 April 16
Bu Hah ; 1863 Mar.
= . a 1864
185 Susannah Daughter of Tan Lain Feb. 15
; 1856 = April
1857
187 Philip Bu-kho Parents of 5 ities 1808-9 20
a-Sai, Anna Jan.
Te Hua 1864
R. A. Soc., No. 61, 1912.
Tiik OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
NAME
Austin Lai
Yen Chin
Francisco
Heng Toa
Huat
Francisco Lai
Fa
James Liu
Fung Kon
Sylvester Kho
Niu”
James Sih
Tsong Leng
Dies? Ana
P. G. (head-
stone)
38 Pedro Chhua
Tone Han
Jeremiah,
Maria
Thomas Lau
Bun Han
Justina Lau
Gek-Niu"™
‘Pedro Lim
Teng Lau
John Ngo
Siong Heng
Paulo Chhua
Yu Kiong
DESCRIPTION BoRN DIED AGE
Of Ka-yin-chu|Kheh j 1848
elder brother of
Francisco Fa and
father of Chhong
Shit
Infant Son 21 Keb. 146
1861 Mar.
1865
Of Ka-yin-chu (Kheh) 5 Oct.
God-father of 1849
Andrew Yung and
father of Francisco
a-Piang _
Of 48mg ses Chin 1865
Phin (Kheh) A. D.
Of FA Ze Hai-ye’, 31
a Fe Dec.
Tiechiu 1847
95
9 May Aug.
1835 1857
(Headstone inscription
illegible)
10
12m, tiie
1811-12 1864
Wife of John Jeremiah 22.4 0
together with her, May yrs.
three sons Baldwin, 1362. 2%
George and John mos.
20
days
Children of Joaquim
Lau Chhum
Of BE IASE Kit-ye" 16
cyte Aug.
Tiechiu i844
Of FY Fat JER Hai-yé" 10,¢
Dah Sept.
Tiechiu 1944
1799- 1844- 45
1800 5)
Jour Straits Branch
THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
No. NAME DESCRIPTION BoRN DIED
217 Pedro Yong Of Ka-yin-chu (Kheh)
a-Chhit
218 Francis, Jonan Born at Bagdad 18
June
1855
221 Agatha Yeo" Wife of Tan a-Ki
Chhun Ki
922 Nicolo Yeo"
Chuan
224 Thomas Tan Of Ai fRE FE Ae EP 16
Chin Hi Hai-yé" Tiechiu Dec.
1853
2925 Mares, Anba- Neé Vangrundelbeke 8)
but Dec.
1863
29296 Philip Ong 29
Lim May
: 1854
227 “Tan a-Bi Of AU 32 BE Ep Hai- 93
ain OSE : Mar.
| _yé" Tiechiu 185
228 Penefather, Wife of A. P. Penefather van:
Caroline 1860
229 Scott, Marie 6
Dominica Dec.
1858
230 Francis, Alfred (Wooden cross) 13
231 Anna Ngo Ki- June
nit" 1850
2528 D> St. Maria, Wite of Peter D’ St. 3 Oct.
Peternela Maria 1847
233 Thomas Koeh Of Ka-Yin-Chu (Kheh) 30
a-Chun (2? date of births) May
1845
235 Joseph Cho -a
Maria Theng
236 Aroozoo, John 12 May 30
1860 Sept.
1860
R. A. Soc., No. 61, 1912;
107
AGE
60.
Section C.
No. NAME DESCRIPTION Born DIED AGE
1 Tomb erected By Captain The Hon.
Arthur A. Coachrane
C.B.and some of the
Officers and_ ship’s
company of H. M.S.
Niger
Died from disease
Freshwater, A. Capt. Cox died at Can- 1 Dec. 27
ton 1856
McPherson ASG: 5 FES pOre 22 eae.
jee dl Dec.
: 1856
Pearce, James | Stoker », Canton 17 ot St
river July
1857
Waller, Robert Mate ‘4° Hong- 25 11438
kong Jan.
1858
Hill, William Capt. Miz. top. died at 26 a3
Hongkong Jan.
1858
Finn, Jeremiah A. B. died at Can- 2542138
ton Feb.
1858
Ashman Chas. Boy 5 pore 12 S7iHly,
April
1858
Bourne, Mark Ordy. i af Liw2e
April
1858
Handcock, Gunner 15: 31823
Robt. REMIE ARS - April
1858
Middleton, V. Private 16:. .280
“18 wl 3S Ne April
1858
Gibbs, James A. B. Rs 55 16 52°20
April
1858
Durrant, Ord. = :, 222449
Alfred April”
: 1858
‘Jour. Straits Branch
THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE. 109
No. NAME DESCRIPTION BorRN DIED AGE
Stevens, W. Boy died at S’pore 9 July 17
1858
Manners, A.B. a 5 PAS ne Al
George July
1858
Died in action
Seig, Christian R. M. A. at Fatshan il 29
June
1857
Griffin, ACuS. "2 i d 27
Edward » . ry th
Bullemore Stoker ,, Canton ) diame 27
— 1858
Smith, H. A. Boy . . : as ilies
Drowned.
Roughton, Mr. Master Asst. ,, at sea 923 Oct. 18
G. E. ISVS) =
Day, Charles Boy Me 8 Sept. 16
1856
Meckril, H. J. Ordy. ’ Pahang 19 18-
Woods, Capt. F.C. at sea May
William 1858
2 Gibson, Lieut. 14th Regt. M.N.L - 1 June 27~
James J. é : 1857
4 Dunean ? | 14 May 60
Walter S. 1857
5 “Our Willie” Dec.
(headstone) — 1856
6 Stirling, 19May .
William 1856
7 Lee,Wm.Junr. Born in New York 14 Sept. 1 Mar.
Wa Sae\e 1823 1836
8 Neish, Thos. B. 30 Nov 39
1868
11 Coventry, Chas. Ist Lieutenant H.M.S. 12 . 30)
Farmer “ Rapid ” Mar.
1855
13 Lane, Mary ile 3: Heb.) '53
Florinda ; 1835
14 Wilkinson, Wife of Captain W. 1 26
Alice Wilkinson sp al. er V0Se
“1850. 2
: mos
15 Salbert, Carl Born in Manila 30 Nov. ? Jan. ?
Wilhelm 1851 - 1858
Andrea
R. A. Soc, No. 61) 1912.
110 THE OLD CHMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SENGAPORE,
No. NAME DESCRIPTION BoRN DIED AGE
16 Becker, Johanna Born in: Hongkong 30 May 30
Carola Catha- 1864 § Nov.
rina 1864
17 Van, Soest Merchant of Singapore a0 274
Leendert Des.
1859
18 Leicester, LOY 204
Samuel Sept. yrs.
1863 2
mos.
90 Allen, Laura Second daughter of 2 Jam.> 4
Maria Agnes Henry and Charlotte 1849 yrs.
also Florence Allen 3
Louisa mos.
2 Apl. 4
1849 mos.
91 Peter, Saml: Died on-board, H. M. 1S" Bi
(R. N.) S. “ Albatross ”’ Jan.
1849
22. Thorndick, Of Uxbridge, Appren- 8
Wm. Robt. tice on board the Mare iT
Ship “‘ Rafael ” 1849
93 Fox, Ann Eliza Infant daughter of 1 Jaane ot
S. P. and Ann Fox 1858 mos.
24 Wiseham, Child of Richard and 19 Dec. 20 my
Emily Emily Wiseham 1856 Feb. mos.
Elizabeth 1856
25 McArthur, Daughter of John and 13 5)
Mary Jane Hiiza McArthur Nov. mos.
1856.5 27
days
26 Walter, Henry Son of Samuel and
Edward Eliza Walter, (rest
illegible)
27 D’Almeida, 9 5)
Emily Aug. yrs.
Delphina 1855 9
mos.
8
"days
D’ Almeida, LOe +4
Annette Sept. yrs.
Elizabeth 1855 6
mos.
12
days
Jour. Straits Branch
THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
No NAME
- 28 Johnson,
Charles
29 Brown
30 Stewart, Capt.
John
dl Wicksteed,
John
32 Rudd, Herman
a3 Riggs, Mary
Jane
30 Yeo" Née Tan
37 Walter,
Francis
Ernest
39 Richard,
Thomas
41 MecDogall,
Robert
42 (Headstone
lying down)
Gray,
Elizabeth |
43 Coveney, J.
R. A Sac., No. 61, 1912.
Merchant,
DESCRIPTION
Born at Deptford in
the Co. of Kent.
Died at-his residence
fhe Hali way
House.”
Wife of William
Brown
Born at Greenock
Renfrew Command-
er of the Barque
~ Aaa,
Born in London
Lieutenant on board
H. N. M. Steamer
“ Batavia.”
Child of Christopher
Robert and Mary
Rigg
Mother of Tan Kek
Sun and Tan Heng
Un
Born at
Bremen
Chief Steward of the
Steamship “ Singa-
pore.”
Seaman, H.C. Steam
frigate Semiramis”
Wife of George Gray,
M.M. born in Sun-
derland and died on
board the “ Allen-
dale’”’ in Singapore
Harbour
(uarter Master Ser-
geant 40th Regt.
M. N.
BORN
10 Jan.
1811
24 June
1803
17 May
1817
DIED
14
June
1861.
1849?
lit
AGE
17
Yr. MOs.
47
43
112 THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
No.
44
45
46
47
48
49
Or
bo
NAME DESCRIPTION
Dyce, Alexan-
der
May, Samuel T. Chronometer maker
Leisk, Capt. Of Lerwick. Com-
Thos. mander of the ship
~ Fort William ”’
Frankly,
George Wm.
Wilkinson, Wife of Capt. Wilkin-
Sarah son «& daughter of
Capt. W. C. lLeisk
Marine Surveyor of
Singapore
Milton-The
Rey. Samuel
Craigie, David Headmaster St. An-
drews Parochial
Schools at Madras
Cudliep ?
Nancy
Henwood,
George Ed-
ward
Smith, Harriet Wife of R. M. Smith,
Allisson died atsea also their
Infant daughter Eli-
za Matilda who died
at sea 25 June 1850
aged 3 mos.
Young, G. M. M. (rest illegible)
Arnold, Capt. Of the ship ‘ Edward
Thomas Boustead ”’ of Liver-
pool died on board
eis ? Mary (headstone-illegible)
Burt, Martin M. M.
Born at. Whin Close
Wise, Joseph
| Cumberland
BoRN
1810
DIED AGE
1848
14
Dec.
1862
3 39
Sept.
1849
1852 4
mos.
15
days
6 21
April
1853
9) 60
Sept.
1848
ha St
May
1849
1 50
Oct.
1848
18> 34
Jan.
1849
20-23
June
1850
20, 983
Aug.
1849
23. 47
Mar. yrs.
eat- 39
mos.
19 May 24 June
1815
1852
Jour. Straits Branch
THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.” 113
No. NAME DESCRIPTION BoRN DIED AGE
60 Harvey, John Mr. Sergt: 51st Regt. 22 Feb. 28
M. N. I. also his In- 1850
fant daughter Made-
line aged 5 months
14 June 1850 31 Oct. 41
61 Stephenson, Of Ship “ Santiago ” 1850
Capt.
62 Gentle, James Ist Engineer Steamer 9Oct. 24
D. “ Hellespont ”’ 1861
64 Léi a-chan Of San-neng (Canton) 25 Feb.
1864
Gee 5. |. Chinese Christian 5 Sep. 26
1850
66 Wright, Cissie Daughter of George BOGE Val
Augustus Tod and Mary Wright June mo.
: TSoe ho
days
67 Anderson, Master of thé Ship Gee oi 2 0)
James Rajastha’”’ of Glas- Dec. 30
- 2OW 1852
68 Tomlinson, R. Of H. M. Surveying 19Mar. 20?
M. Schooner “Saracen’’ 1857
69 Li Jiu Keng Of Lam-cheng (Hok- 26 Aug. 17
kien) 1864 March
1865
71 Keasberry, Daughter of B. P. 19: 20?
Ellen Keasberry — July mos.
1852
72 Griffin, Alex. W. 1 ae!
Dec. mos.
1155
73 Hewetson, (illegible) | 45
Francis
74 Johannes, Born at Batavia 9 Jan. 10 Jan.
Gerrit . S250) iso
75. Seale, Francis Mate. H. C. Pilate 17 Jan.
William Service 1851
76 Minard, Wm. M. M. a0) = yw
Henry Dec. yrs.
1850
77 Andree, Capt. Of the barque ~ Cla- 18 54
Gaal rissa” May yrs.
ste TG
mos.
2D
days
R.A. Soc No. 61, 1912.
114 THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
No.
78
80
81
86
88
89
90
NAME
MeLachlan,
Patrick
Colin, Camp-
bell, John
Kick, imma
Welsh, Capt.
Dan
Headstone
lying down
Young, Capt.
Tones, John
Yone
Stevens,
Edmund
DESCRIPTION
Second son of the late
Sir Grey Campbell
Bart : and of Pamela
his wife died on
board H.M.B. “ Bit-
tern ”’
Wife of Wm. Kick
(Remainder illegible)
This stone is placed
at the head of Mrs.
Young’s grave to the
memory of her law-
ful husband Capt. J.
Young and her sister
Isabella
Of H.M.S. “ Sybill ”
Caulker, on H.M.
Sloop, “ikea patos
Petty Officer for 20
years
BORN DIED AGE
Jan.
1853
23 28
- April
1853
9 21
95 OA
Oct.
1854
pi LP se
Feb.
1865
Jour Straits Branch -
19
21
23
32
33
NAME
Maria Ng
Liang Niu"
Gomes, J.
Cashin,
Charlotte
Anakin,
Charles
Falconer, John
Bonnyface,
Charles
Liau Chhun
Min
Graves, Kd.
Hide, John
Silvester,
Horace
Chalk, Chas.
Henry
Parks, Peter
Li Kim Lim
R. A, Sac., No. 61, 1912,
Section D.
DESCRIPTION
Mother of Tan Ban
Hah and Maria
Husband of F. Gomes 23 Dec.
Wife of C. Cashin
For 12 years on board
the Barque Mary ”’
of Liverpool
Engineer, born at
Stanenover? Scot-
land
Native of Telpham ?
Sussex, England. —
Midshipman on board '
the Barque Warren
Hastings ”’
land
Of Kui-shen (Hiechiu '
Kheh)
Gunner on H. M. S.
“ Renard ”
Native of Hyannes
Uses. A:
Oi these ©: Com:
panies Service Cal-
cutta, who came
here in search of
health
(Inseription illegible)
Of Ka-yin-chu tomb
repaired in Spring of
1880 by his 2nd son
Stam YG (20) Scare
others
of Eng-
BORN
1824-5 1857-8
1818
DIED
m5
Nov.
Sept.
1864
Sept.
1814
Sept.
1859
4 Ap.
1860
29
April
1860
~
5
Nov.
1856
AGE
21
40
26
vrs.
fal
mos.
27
days
NAME.
Jao 1B), Ihe
Allen, Laura Maria Agnes
Alliandre, Sibrino
Anakin, Charles
Andersen, William
Anderson, James
Andree, Capt. G. F.
‘Anthony
Apear, Andrew Satoor
Arica
Armstrong, Adam
Armstrong, John
Arnold, Capt. Thomas
Aroozoo, John
Ashman, Charles
Ball, John
INDEX.
Becker, Johanna, Carola, Catharina
Behn, August Wilhelm
Bell, Kate
Bello, Don José Gonzalex
Bernard, Mrs. Esther
Bing, Johanna Catherine
Black, John
Blaver, Antoine M.
Bonnytace, Charles
Bourne, Mark
Brabazon, Harry Lambert
Bray, Jane
Breen, John Edward
Brown
Brown, John
Bu-kho a-Sai, Philip
Bu-kho a-Sui, James
Bullemore :
Bun Beng Thai, Thomas
Burn, Emily Caroline
~ Burn, The Rev. Robert
Burnett, Catherine
Burnett, Joseph
Burnett, William
Burt, Martin
Carroll, The Rev. C. R.
No. on
Plan.
%q
ph
bo
bo
13
249
249
249
58
247
Tour. Straits Branch
Section.
POPPE EWOWWWOPPPOUMe ee er roawawarrmewancrowaa
THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
NAME.
Carpenter, Mary Elizabeth
Cashin, Charlotte
Caswall, Elizabeth
Chalk, Charles Henry
Chan Tek Sun, James
Cheng, Pedro
Chhua Tong Hau, Pedro
Chhua Yu Kiong, Paulo
Chng a-Joe, John
Chng Beng Bun, Stephen
Cho a-Theng, Joseph
Chong Son Pak, Louis
-.Chu a-Phua”
Chua Ngi An, Pedro
Chung Fat Long
Chung Khe Tan, Pedro
Chung Sin, Martin
Church, William Marryat
Clark, James Scott
Clark, James Scott
Clement, William
Coleman, George D.
Colin, Campbell
Collingwood, John C.
Conolly, John
Copeland, James T.
Corbett, Joseph
Cornish, Frederick George
Coveney, J.
Coventry, Charles Farmer
~Cox, Thomas Bernard
Craigie, David
Crosby, Thomas Kidder
Crowell, Seth
Cudliep, Nancy
Cumming, John P.
Cunegonde
Cunningham, John Thomas
Cunningham, Mary Ann
Cunningham, Mathew Peter
Curtis, Charles J.
Cuthbertson, Robert John
D’Almeida, Anette Elizabeth
D Almeida, Emily D.
D’ Almeida, Sir Jozé
D’ Almeida, Maria’ ‘ugenia
R. A. Soc., No. 61, 1912
No. on
Plan.
239
19
233
31
175
30
203
211
38
4]
235
142
165
24
129
132
12
14
150
152
258
14
80
30
16
256
268
56
43
11
17
d1
23
189
o2
259 .
46
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NAME.
D’ Almeida, Terelia
Darcey, T. B.
Davidson, R. R.- W.
Davis, Robert Thomas Farquhar
Dawson, Capt. Wm.
Day, Charles
DeAlmeida, Angelina
DeAlmeida, Charles
DeAlmeida, Ella
Dean, Mrs. Matilda C.
Deare, Diana
Decamp, Hugene
Demeeo, Maria
DeOlivero, Nicholson
DeSilva, Januario, Agostinio
DeSilva, Mrs. Joaquina
D’ St. Maria, Peternela
DeThune, Le Comte
Dies, Anna
Diron, Mary
Dunean, Walter S.
Dunn, Arthur Charles
Durrant, Alfred
Dyce, Alexander
D ’Zilva, Martina
Edwards, John
Ellis, John K.
Faleoner, John
Farquhar, Wm. Clark
Ferrier, James
Finn, Jeremiah
Fox, Ann Eliza
Francis, Alfred
Francis, John Henry
Franeis, Jonan
Frankly, George
Fransiz, Martha
Freshwater A.
Fu Vun Hi
Gable, Mary
Geale, Janet
Gentle, James D.
Germon, Lieut. J. P.
Gibbs, James
Gibson, Lieut. J. J.
Gibson, James
No. ony Boe
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NAME.
Gilzian, Mary
Gomes, J.
Graham, Jane
Graves, Edward |
Gray, Elizabeth
Gray, Wm.
Green, George
Grey, Leopold James Hy.
Griffin, Alex. W.
Griffin, Edward
Hackman, Herman Jacques Lucretia
Hallpike, Stephen
Handcock, Robert
Hansen, Ann Elizabeth
Hartley, Henry
Harvey, John
Haskell, J. L.
Hen Fo Sin, Paulo
Henderson, Captain
Hendriks, James
Hendriks, John
Heng Che, Joseph
Heng Kwang Ju, Paulo
Heng Kwang Ko, Pedro
Heng, Maria
Heng Tiang Seng, James
Heng Toa Huat, Francisco
Henwood, George Edward
Hewetson, Charlotte
Hewetson, Francis
Hewetson, Mrs. Marian
Hewetson, T.
Hewetson, W.
Hide, John
Hill, William
Hind, Wm. Henry
Hinnckindt, Kugene
Hinnekindt, Numa
Hogg, Lucy.
Howard, Peter
Hudson, Thomas
Ivatts, Emily
Jarret, Thomas
Jauncey, Robert
Jeremiah, Maria
Joanna
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120 THE OLD CEMETERY ON
NAME.
Johannes, Gerrit
Johnson, Charles
Keasberry, Ellen
Kho Niu", Sylvestor
Kho Tek I, Joseph
Ki len, Pedro
Ki Oai, Paulo
Kick, Emma
Kirby, John L.
Knus, Maria Catherine Sophia
Ko ( ) Thai Seng, Francisco
Koch a-Chun, Thomas
Kong Hi, Paulo
Kraal, Amelia
Kraal, Wilhelmina
Kraal, William
Lahy, Thomas
Lai Fa, Francisco
Lai Yen Chin, Austin
Lane, Mary Florinda
Lau Buc Han, Thomas
Lau Chhun, Joaquim
Lau Chhun, Paulo
Lau Gek-niu", Justina
Lau Hong Liat, Joseph
Lau, Joseph
Lau Kiau, Maria
Lau Lo Leng
Lau Teu, Vincentio
Lee, Wm. Junr.
Léi a-Chan
Leicester, Mary
Leicester, Rosamond
Leisk, Anna
Leisk, Capt. Thomas
Leslie, Captain
Leslie, George
Li Ji, Paulo
Li Jiu Keng
Li Kam, Pedro
Li Kim Lim
Liau Chhun Min
Lim, Paulo
Lim Teng Lau, Pedro
Lim Tiong Hi, Pedro
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No. on
NAME. Piage Section.
Lim, Vincentio 94° B
Lindsay, The Hon. C. R. 134 A
Liu Fung Kon, James 193 5 3s
Lo Po, Jacob : 136 B
Lock, James ; 161 Ata
Lopez, Don. Maria Engracia 153 B
Lovi, Henry 241 A
Lyon, James 183 BO
McArthur, Mary Jane 25 ©
McDougall, Robert 4] C
McIntyre, Hugh 227 A
McLachlan, Patrick 78 C
McMahon, M. J. T. 41 A
McPherson, P. J. [site 2 ©
McSwiney, Anne. 34 A
McTavish, Capt. Archibald 199 A
Mackertoom, Mackertoom Galoost 84 A
Macnair, George 267 A
Macnair, Robert F. 267 A:
Mactaggart, Elizabeth Helen 254 A:
Mactaggart, Mary Ann 238 A
Maitland, William | 63 Att
Manners, George 1 C
Mares, Anbabut 225 B
Margaret, Caroline Regina 136 A
Maria : 239 B
Martha 80 B:-
Mathers, Henry 197 A
May, Samuel T. 45.28 Co.
Meckril, H. J. 1 C-
Melany, Peter 72 Bo
Melitus, Philip Paul 78 A
Mellington, Elizabeth 279 A
Middleton, V. oil Ce
Milton, The Rev. Samuel | 49 C
Minaid, Wm. Henry 76 C
Minjoot, John, Luis Anna Cleto 50a B
Minjoot, Maria, Frederick 51 B
Mitchell, The Rev. J. A. 192 A
Moncrieff, Thomas — 276 Ai
Montgomerie, Alexander Graham 15 A
Montgomerie, Margaret 15 A
Montgomerie, Robert Alexander 1S. A
Moyle, Edith Elizabeth 244 A
Moyle, Mary Harriot + JAS AN
Muirhead, Emma Jane - ~ 26% A
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122 THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
NAME.
Mundy, Thomas
Na" Khi Mui, Paulo
Napier, James Brooke
Neish, Thomas
Nell, Henry
Neubronner, Eliza
Neville, Patrick Joseph
Ng a-Thiam, Paulo
Ng, Cecilia
Ng Liang Niu’, Maria
Ng To Kuan, Andrew
Ng Tsz, Joseph
Ngin Pia", Jacob
Ngin Yong Seng, Joseph
Ngo, James
Ngo Ki niu’, Anna
Ngo Siong Hing, John
Nicholson, George W. W.
Nicholson, William Dayid
Nicholson, George
Olivaro, Andreke
Ong Lim, Philip
Ottoson, Emily Louisa
“Our Willie ”’
Oxley, Elleanor Amelia
1, (Ge
Parks, Peter
Paterson, Alice Graham
Pearce, James
Penefather, Caroline
Pereira, M. L.
Perreau, Charles
Pestana, Catherine
Peter, Samuel
Peterson, Edward Alfred
Phua", Athatina
Pickering, Mary Eliza
Pillay, Aaron
Plowden, Klizabeth Ann
Presgrave, Edward
Prior, Hesther Sophia
Reid, Jane Elizabeth
Reynell, Walter
Rice, John
Richards, Thomas
Rigg, Mary Jane
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NAME. No. on Section.
Plan.
Robb, Ann I15 A
Robb, J. Riach 915 A
Robertson, Archibald J. Spottiswoode tad A
Robinson. Alice DD A
Robinson, Stella Da? A
Rodrigues, Julia 276 B
- Rodyk, Christian J. 158 A
Rozers, Capt. 151 A
Rose, Emily Carey 213 A
Ross, John 167 B
Rough, Captain John Lg B
Roughton, G. EH. ] C
Rozario, de Petronell 29 B
Rowlandson, Emily Jane 131 A
Rudd, Herman 32 C
S. and E. S. 995 A
Salbert, Car] Wilhelm Andrea Ls C
Salmon, John Kinsey 240 A
Sarkies, Aristakes 92 A
Sarkies, T. A. 105 A
Saunders, Eliza Wallace D5 A
Scheerder, Louisa Cecilia 85 B
Scheerder, Capt. Paul 181 A
Schumann, Edward 174 A
Scott, Harry 8) A
Scott, Joseph Richard 62 A
Scott, Marie Dominica 229 B
Seott, William 26 A
Seale, Francis Wm. TD C
Secretan, Francis James £72 A
Seig, Christian 1 C
Seth, Gregory 96 A
Seth, Hosannah Peter 95 A
Shepherd, John Forbes 182 A
Shepperd, Wm. 65 A
Siffken, Charles Henry 260 A
Sih Tsong Leng, James 196 B
Silvester, Horace 30 D
Simon, Juliet A. 157 A
Sinclair, Henry # 113 A
Sit Yu Ngo 1244 B
Skinner, A. W. , 276 A
Skinner, Ann Jones 257 A
Smart, Edward anh A
Smith, Charles Edward 68 A
Smith, H. A. 1 OU
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124 THE OLD CEMETERY ON FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE.
NAME.
Smith, Harriet Allison
So a-Piu, Paulo
So Cheng Tong, Joseph
So Chhin Kai
Sohier, Philip
Sohst, John Friedrich
Song Pat Ko
Spartan’ A.M.S., Capt., Officers & Men of
Spottiswoode, Charles
Statoo, Antonia Catherina Apploo
Steer, W. H.
Stephens, Simon
Stephenson, Capt.
Stevens, Edmund
Stevens, W.
Stewart, Capt. John
Stirling, Wm.
Strvker, The Rev. Isaac P.
Sutelitfe, Ada
Swannah
Sweeting, Samuel
Tan a-Bi
Tan a-Bin, James
Tau a-Ku, Joseph
Tan Chin Hi, Thomas
Tan Ke Hong, Simon
Tan Khai Quan
Tan Kim, Matthias
Tan Ko, Thomas
Tan Ko Hien
Tan Moh
Tan Nam, Francisco
Tan, Stephen
Tan Thian Sun, Pedro
Tan Tio, Anton
Taylor, Chas. Henry
Taylor, Francis
Te Hua, Anna
Temperton, William
Ter-Stephea, Mereatoon Michael
Tereira, Paul
Thorndick, Wm. Robert
Tingate. Thomas W.
Tiu Nei, Joseph
Tiu" Negi Kiat, John
Tiu" Seng Thai, Paulo
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NAME. a ©" Section.
an,
Tiu" Thien Siong, Pedro 104 B
Tiu" Toa, Thaddens 45 B
Tiu” Ui Lok | 39 B
Tolson, Robert P. 92.4 A
Tomlinson, R. M. 68 C
Tones, John Youl 83 C
Van, Soest L. 17 C
Vong a Ngi, Benedict 106 b
Vong Sz Pong, Nicolo 179 B
Vun Fo Sin, Stephen 178 B
Waller, Robert 1 C
Walter, F aneis Ernest 37 C
Walter, Henry Edward 26 C
Watson, Edward 94 A
Webster, Josiah 188 A
Weed, Joseph H. 186 A
Welsh, Capt. Dan 86 C
Welsh, James 84 B
White, The Rev. Edward AQ
Whitehead, Horrocks ie 66 A
Wickstead, John 31 C
Wilkinson, Alice 14 C
Wilkinson, Sarah 48 C
Williams, John 94 A
Wilson, James 176 A
Wilson, John 164 B
Wischam, Emily Elizabeth 24 C
Wise, Joseph 59 C
Wood, John 52 B
Wood, Martha Maria . 194 A
Woods, John Henry 195 A
Woods, William 1 C
Wooden, Brezeda 111 B
Woodford, Dorothea 90 B
Woodford, Samuel Arthur 90 B
Wright, Cissie Angustine 66 C
Yeo’, Paulo 116 B
Yeo" Chhiong Ngi. Ignacio 35 B
Yeo" Chhun Ki, Agatha : 291 B
Yeo’ Chuan, Nicolo 222, B
Yeo’ Ju, Pedro 133 B
Yeo" Khong Lan, Anthony | 166 B
Yeo” nee Tan 30 C
Yong a-Chhit, Pedro 217 B
Yong Hon, Domingo 17S} B
Yong Kim Long, Joseph 34 B
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NAME. ee ©” Section.
an.
Yong Link, Paulo 105 B
Yong Ngi Ko, Anton 33 B
Yong Thiam, John 67 B
Young, Capt. 88 C
Young, J. 55 C
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.
Pl. I. Plan of the Cemetery on Fort Canning Hill, Singapore.
Pl. II. West Gateway.
Pl. III. Tomb erected to the memory of the infant son of William
Napier Esq., Lieut. Governor of Labuan.
Pl. IV. General view of section ‘B’ of the Cemetery.
Pl. V. ‘Tomb in the centre of the picture: erected to the memory
of the Officers and Men of H. M. S. ‘Niger’.
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of the more advanced West become known in Kota Bharu, sc
the variants of the other states are found gradually to creep in.
' both the written and spoken dialect. Perak is acknowledged to
be the leader of fashion and to be worthy of imitation in most
respects.
(6) “You” is Perak in mika
kamu.
in Pahang awak. -
in Kelantan kita (polite).
diri
mu (much as kamu is Perak).
kamu (which is coarse).
This use of kita may be common to the Northern States, but it
has not come to my notice except in Kelantan. “‘Diri’’ is also quite
commonly used: and “mu,” rather coarse, is purely colloquial, and
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2 SOME NOTES ON THE KELANTAN DIALECT.
would always be used in conversation with inferiors and young peo-
ple.
(c) He, She etc. The Malay expressions are the same in all
three dialects :—but in Perak and Kelantan “dia-ma’”’ colloquially
pronounced ‘‘deema,’’ is the ordinary plural. In Pahang I never once
heard this expression. In Perak only have I noticed similar forms
in the first and second persons, as sahaya-ma’”’ and ©“ kamu-ma.”
In comparing the dialects of Perak and Pahang as regards differ-
ences of vocabulary, these, I think, are comparatively few. In
Pahang we find the word ‘molek” in common use, where both “‘elok’’
and chantek” are used in Perak: “‘sélalu’’ is found where in Perak
‘“langsong”’ is employed: and the use of ‘ rajin”’ is common where
in Perak “sélalu’’ is the expression found, e.g., ‘ta’ rajin’’ means
“never.” The most common expression in Pahang for ‘“every”’ is
‘‘sa-bilang,” eg., ‘‘sa-bilang hari” which means “every day.”
“Often” in Pahang is ‘‘kérap,” usually “kérap kali:’’ in Perak we
find “ galak”’ or “ galak kali’? employed: while in Kelantan again we
find the expression to be ‘‘achap” or ‘‘achap kali.’ In Pahang,
instead of the expression punya”’ signifying possession, the Arabic
“hak,” literally meaning “ possession”’ or © property”’ is used: and it
frequently takes the place of ‘“yang”’ (relative pronoun) as well.
“Only in Pahang have! heard the word chamchah”’ used for “spoon:”’
and in Pahang and Kelantan the word “sérampang” for “fork.”
The word “‘lalu’’ in Pahang has an adverbial use as well as its ordi-
nary signification, viz., meaning © absolutely,” e¢.g., ta’ guna lalu.’’
meaning ‘absolutely no good:”’ “‘habis-lalu,’”’ “absolutely finished’”’
‘Amat is generally used in Pahang where in Perak “ térlampau,’’
‘“sangat,” or ‘‘sakali’’ would be used. To intensify “amat,” “sangat”’
is added.
The Kelantan dialect differs widely from both Perak and Pahang
dialects. itis the least pure of all the Malay dialects I know, and
tntermingled with Siamese and even Chinese expressions, though:the
latter are comparatively few. There are many other alleged Malay
». ds, which as far as my experience goes, belong to Kelantan alone,
‘ugh it is possible that they are used in other Northern Malay
Svates. I have mentioned the personal pronouns, and in this con-
nection I must not forget to state that the word ‘“awak”’ for ““you”’
is accepted as being quite polite, but no Kelantan Malay cares to be
addressed as kamu.” It may be for this reason that Court charges
always employ the expression ‘‘kamu!’’ ‘“Hamba”’ is practically the
one colloquial word for “I’’ as is kita in written form.
I give a list of Kelantan words with meanings as types of the
difference in dialect.
English or Malay. Kelantan Malay.
To see See Kleh, bérgari.
To hasten hunggal
List sénaral
To take census: make a list sénaraikan
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Notice, notification pérwawai
To be unwilling ta’ ser (only used in negative)
To weep | tériak (seldom tangis)
Foolish (bodoh) babok )
Mattress lembek
To petition méngéting or méngenting
Pénghulu : To’ kweng
Lawyer pénghulu
sémpadan tapang; méntara
The late (deceased) gémolah
bérsilat sayong
Feast for dead bewah
janda bujang
tin (receptacle) kopi
gila gong
plan-plahan kohor
capture egat or egak
appeal (against a Court decision) utun
Court case euaman or bichara
Criminal case bichara jénaiah
Civil = bichara mal
Party to a case anak guaman
To be party to a case bérguam
To give judgment kérat bichara
A judgment kératan-
gaol gok
dukong kekong
balek kélik, kélit
a cent, a piece ménunggal
marah mureh
kérani sémayan
throw, champak téhok
now loh ini
quickly (at once) lolor-lelor
snaiey { sangkang : bélanar :
chémak
proud pongah
shaky with fear kénaling
batas (large with a path on top) tandak
téngkolok satangan (form saputangan uncom-
mon.) °
- money pitis (lit. the small leaden coin
worth $1/480. )
méléngong térchokoh
manggis mésta -
jambu golok kétiri
mata kuching (fruit) gédu-gédik
kundang (fruit) sétar
lada hitam lada bénang
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“4 SOME NOTES ON THE KELANTAN DIALECT.
silau (of sun) béchar
makan jamuan panggilan
péda budu
buah kétapi kéchapi
aran tamban
kraiong néring
sirat jala jahit jala
ségar siar
jalor tanah ruangan, or wangan tanah
bélébas jéréjak
to suckle mai (pron. with nasal accent)
kérol bojing
sireh sa-kapur sireh témat
Se a sireh sa-piak
méminang orang bawa sireh
pagar ténggalong pagar musang
matches pénggesek api
Sy ito hed nee kecheh
korang hérti korang chérak
ménchépar méjériat
notice, to affix tepek
finger- print tepek tangan
I give these as examples, compiled, as will be seen, ietinnt
system, just as they occured to me or were brought to my notice
I can give many more if required. The examples which I know to be
Siamese are jénaiah, utun, kweng, guam, and also such words as
‘“wat’’ a Siamese temple ; ‘sam’’ a Siamese Court-house; “sémayan,”’
a clerk : and I suspect also that sénarai, gong, gok, and others are
of Siamese origin. The Chinese negative ‘‘bo’’ is in quite common
use.
If. Pronunciation. I should be inclined to put the dialect of
Pahang, Central Pahang at least, first as regards normality of
pronunciation. Mie
the final—ar pronounced as —or, aS in bésar bénar
, pron. as bésor bénor.
oe - ss —ui, as in bétul, pron.
bétul.
of oa US a = —oé, aS in bagus pron.
bagoé.
fey gi ce = —ior, as in hilir, pron.
j elior.
the final—a. pronounced as —é, aS In mana pron. as
mané, or as the French
—eu.
—al —ai, as gatal, pron. gatai.
The Paes dialect i a epobeal simon as written, though a fewa
few eccentricities may be noted. Final--lis slurred over but is
not absolutely mispronounced as in Psrak. Thus the word “ gatal’’
is pronounced almost as ‘“sata:’’ but the impression is left of some-
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SOME NOTES ON THE KELANTAN DIALECT, 5
thing more than “ gata,” as if the tongue were trying to overcome
the difficulties of the final—1, and just failed to do so. The final-
ai and-au are also slurred, and are pronounced almost as-—a. They
approach therefore towards the pronunciation of the final which
explains why we sometimes hear of a sungal or a kédal when a
sungal or a kédai is meant. |
Kelantan pronunciation is eccentric in a different direction from
both the Perak and the Pahang dialects.
1. Suppression of—n before another consonant: e.g., Kélantan
is pronounced Kélatan : jantan is pronounced jJatan. Similarly bangku
is pronounced baku, and béngkak, békak. Here again the impres-
sion is left of almost futile striving to pronounce the word in full. On
the other hand—n and—ng are frequently inserted in writing where
their use is incorrect and superfluous, e.g , béngkas for békas; this er-
ror is only found in writiug, and is possibly due to the knowledge of
the opposite fault and to a desire to avoid it at all costs.
2. Suppression of—m—inasimilar way, again with the counter-
error in writing, ¢.g., tépoh for témpoh: tapar for tampar: tépek for
témpek.
3. Final—an pronounced as—en, e.g., Kélaten for Kélantan ;
tuenfortuan. The—nisverynasal. Similarly—angis pronounced
—eng, e.y., Paheng for Pahang.
4. Final -a pronounced as -aw, as in the English word
“law,” e.g., Manaw, apaw, for mana, apa. Similarly, -ah is pro-
nounced as -awh, eg., timawh, Jelawh: and -ak as -awk, e.9.,
Perawk, awawk, kakawk.
5. Final -t, -k, and -p are practically indeterminate. In the
case of a word such as achap’’ it is impossible to tell from the
spoken word whether it is really ‘‘achap,’ “achat,” or ‘ achak.”
The word is generally written “achap,’ and so I assume that
form to be correct. Again fe am ea to determine whether the
word meaning ‘ to return” is ‘ kelik’’ or “ kelit.”’ I presume the
former to be correct, on the cane of “ balek,”’ but as spoken it
appears to my ears more to resemble the second form given. This
confusion does not always exist, however: it only presents itself
in, comparatively speaking, a few cases, but the fact that it exists
at all seems to be worth nothing.
6. Final -ng is frequently softened into -m, 4 find a good
example of this error in the Malay programme of Sports held*in
Kota Bharu on the occasion of the Coronation of the present King.
The sentence occurs, “ Jika: tiada pakaian seperti yang tersehut
itu, memadai-lah dengan baju*hitam leher tutup, dan seluar hitam
kain sarom sutera atau bugis atau. Trengganu chorak hitam diatas
lutut” “I have frequently heard blakam used for blakang and
even tuam for tuan. In this case again we find mistakes occurring
in the opposite direction : for one regularly finds the word “bélum”
pronounced and even spelt as * bélong.’’ ~ The latter error is
readily explained by the nasal pronunciation prevalent in
Kelantan : the former is no doubt the result of revolt against the
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6 SOME NOTES ON THE KELANTAN DIALECT.
contrary error. An interesting example of the difficulty caused by
the peculiarities of the spoken dialects of the Northern States is
that mentioned by Mr. E. W. Birch in one of his articles to the
journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Straits Branch. In this
article he mentions. a discussion between himself, Mr. Hubert
Berkeley, and the Dato Sri Adika Raja on the meaning of the
name Klian Intan. The discussion was as to whether the name
was originally Intan or Hitam. It is a matter which can never be
decided, as in Kelantan at least there would be no difference in the
pronunciation of the two words. The first -n of Intan would not
be pronounced, and the first syllable would be undistinguishable
from the first syllable of . Hitam ; while the nasal pronunciation of
the finals -am and -an would be exactly similar.
7. Final -h is frequently pronounced as -s, ¢.g., putes for puteh
galas for galah, tujos for tujoh. I have noticed this in Perak ;
but there the tendency is rather to slur the final -s and make it
approximate the sound of the final -h.
The Kelantan dialect has some curious clipped terminal
affixes, tagged on at the end of words, phrases, and even sentences.
e.y., -dik or -dek often at.the end of an exclamation or interrogation.
No one appears to be able to explain it.
-gak is perhaps the most frequently used of all. It seems to
be an intensive, but to possess little real signification or none at
all. JI have heard when playing sepak raga the phrase used,
“ Buleh Haji gak,” intended to call the attention of the Haji in
question to the fact that the raga had come to his foot. Again I
have heard the phrase “Mari gak”’ used as a polite invitation.
-teh is another intensive. When used with an adjective, as
“murah teh,” “molek teh,’ it acquires something of the meaning
of “ banar,”’ .
Another and even more curious expression is keneh’’ I do
not know what it means; sol shall merely give the example of
its use quoted to me. It is as follows :—
‘ Balah ‘tu keneh?” and is interpreted to mean ‘ Bagitu-kah ?”’
It is not only used in interrogation, however, a3 it would also be
used in expressing agreement with the opinion of another person.
So that the same phrase ~ _Balah ‘tu. keneh,”’ without the interro-
gation would simply mean “You are quite right.’ One informant
told me that it was chiefly used in anger, but thatis not so, and
I only mention this fact to show how difficult it is to get a credible
explanation of many of these obscure terms.
A combination which. I have found only in Kelantan i is formed
of the term sa-rupa’’ followed by the expression ‘lek- lek,” the
word denoting the object of the simile intervening, * Lek-lek ”’
seems to add nothing to the meaning of “ sa-rupa,’’ but simply to
be an addition repeating without intensifying the. signification, It
may, . however, have the meaning Olas ‘exactly ” €.g., | Sa-rupa
harimau lek-lek,’ which perhaps means © just like a tiger: ”’ but
so far as I know, it does not modify in any way the preceding phrase.
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A phrase “ lolor-lolor’’ which means “at once’ may be akin
“loh”’ as found in “loh ini,’ the Kelantan expression for “‘ now:”’
The interjectory loh-lah’’ means “come on;’’ and I believe that
these phrases are all derived from a common root.
Other phrases worthy of note are
siat gak, which means jangan-lah (not with a verb)
tiada sa-kéteh habok _,, tiada lalu
z.e. there is none at all.
Balar-lah no matter; tidak apa
sut dah it is finished
These notes do not profess to be exhaustive, or to deal fully
with any aspect whatever of the Kelantan dialects: nor do I make
any claim to have discovered anything that was unknown pre-
viously. Ihave avoided words and phrases which are not in
common use, and such as, being technical might not be known to
any European in Kelantan. The compilation of the latter is
secondary both in point of time and of importance. I have spelt
many of the words phonetically as they sounded to my ear: and in
many cases, as I have pointed out, the spelling is doubtful. My
object, however will be attained if the publication of these notes
induces others to set down and publish the result of their observa-
tions. In this way alone can a solution be found for many of the
difficulties in form and spelling which now exist.
R. A. Soc., No. 62, 1912.
Gunong Tahan and Gunong Riam
By J. B. SCRIVENOR.
With plates I—IV.
So little has been written about the mountains of the Malay
Peninsula that there is small reason to give any excuse for the fol-
lowing pages concerning the two highest eminences in the country,
Gunong Tahan on the borders of Pahang and Kelantan, and Gunong
Riam, better known as Gunong Kerbau, on the borders of Pahang
and Perak. The paper is the outcome of a recent ascent of Gunong
Riam, and the opportunity of comparing it with Gunong Tahan,
which I ascended in 1906, and other peaks that I have visited in the
Malay States.
The height of these two mountains was in 1906 believed to
be:—Gunong Riam 7160 feet: Gunong Tahan 7050 feet, but the
latest determination for Gunong Tahan makes it 7186 feet and
therefcre higher than Gunong Riam. For this figure I am indebt-
ed to the Surveyor-General, Col. Jackson.
I may as well say at once that no claim to “ mountaineering”
adventures is put forward in this paper. After haying ascended
four of the highest peaks in the country I know that the journey up
any one of them is best described as a rather stiff up-hill walk with
an occasional scramble among the thick vegetation. I have not yet
seen one place that cannot be easily negotiated. The Saddleback
on Suowdon and the Striding Edge on Helvellyn are more thrilling
than anything I have seen on the Peninsular Mountains. I expect
the limestone hills, however, as being capable of affording any amount
of climbing exercise, but they can hardly be called mourtains, and
generally speaking, little is gained by climbing them. I shall never
forget my feelings when once invited to go up a vertical cliff of lime-
stone clinging to one slender creeper. MRecollecting that the nearest
hospital was five days journey away, I declined.
It has been my practice when travelling in the Peninsula to
attend strictly to my own work and to avoid giving way to the temp-
tation of dabbling in sciengific subjects other than my own. This
is because I have no reason to suppose that a geologist’s zoological
or botanical observations are one whit more valuable than a zoolo-
gist’s or botanist’s geological observations. Therefore, beyond an oc-
casional remark, the accuracy of which is not guaranteed, concern-
ing the fauna and flora, I have little to say of a scientific nature ;
but I believe that a plain narrative of the journeys will prove to be
of some interest. The determination of heights of peaks also has
been. left to those best qualified to give an opinion on the subject,
and I have therefore refrained from burdening myself with a heavy
theodolite. |
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GUNONG TAHAN.
Gunong Tahan has been, and perhaps still is to a certain extent,
wrapped in the mantle of romance. This is not peculiar to Gunong
Tahan alone, however, of the features of northern Pahang, for there
was once a strong belief in the existence of a mountain chain bet-
ween Pahang and Kelantan that trended east and west, of which
Gunong Tahan was a part; and as the belief in this range crumbled
away, so did the supposed height of Gunong Tahan, originally, if I
remember rightly, stated as about 20,000 feet, descend rapidly down
the scale, until now it is known that itis only a little over 7,000
feet.
Nevertheless, Gunong Tahan has always been an attraction for
travellers, probably because of the Malay stories of the difficulties
caused by Jins to prevent anyone reaching the top, and in 1905
certainly, perhaps earlier, the summit was reached. I say perhaps
earlier than 1905, because in 1902 Mr. John Waterstradt claimed to
have ascended the mountain (vide this Journal No. 37, 1902, pp. 3—
27), and I, for one, am not prepared to say that his claim is unfound-
ed; but unfortunately the record of his journey is hard to follow.
Several men have attempted to ascend Gunong Tahan—one, H. M.
Becher, lost his life in the Tahan River, while another suffered
severe privations and was forced to turn back, narrowly escaping
disaster. But the size of Gunong Tahan compared with the great
mountains of the world, and the facilities given by the vegetation,
are such that its ascent can hardly be accounted a feat of mountain-
eering. The unavoidable difficulties met with are those of trans-
port of baggage, and it is the writer’s opinion that the only display
of pluck was shown by the leader of the 1905 expedition, who, al-
though about to retire, and in none too good health, determined to
attempt the ascent before leaving the country, an attempt that was
defeated by serious illness on the journey from the Tahan River to
the ridge of Gunong Tahan itself.
If we consider Mr. Waterstradt’s claim as a separate question,
the honour of first ascending Gunong Tahan belongs to certain
Malays with the 1905 expedition, Che Nik, Mu’min, Mat Aris, and
Bulang (for an account of this expedition see Journal F.M.S. Mu-
seums, Vol. iii, 1908). I met these men in the following year and
one of them, Bulang, guided me to the top.
In 1906, thanks to the timing of the attempt, the lightness of
the baggage, the willingness of the Malays with me, and the well-
worn paths, the ladders and the huts of the 1905 -expedition and a
still more recent party headed by Mr. J. C. Sugars, the! ascent of
Gunong Tahan was made without any. serious difficulty being en-
countered or any hitch occurring with the men. The ascent was,
in fact, a picnic.
Starting from Kuala Lipis, I soon reached Kuala Tembeling,
where I interviewed the genial Penghulu, Penglima Kakap
Hussein, and obtained through him the services of three Tem-
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beling Malays for the journey. After ascending the Tembeling
River for two days the Kuala of the Tahan River was reached and
the compact little expedition disposed itself in a dug-out to face
the laborious business of ascending the Tahan River. The three
Malays were ample to manage the boat and to carry up the moun-
tain sufficient food to sustain the whole party for some days. The
‘baggage consisted of a few cooking utensils, a quantity of plain food,
a thin jungle mattress, blanket and mosquito-net, and various spare
~garments, all wrapped up in three light waterproof sheets, making
three convenient bundles. The. men’s rice, on which I claimed the
right to draw, was included with the other food. The three bundles
of baggage were placed on a small bamboo deck in the dug-out, and
I made myself as comfortable as’ possibleamong them. The absence
of any firearms was the cause of some expostulation from Kakap
Hussein and the men, who asstred me that there were many ene-
mies to be encountered, including dragons.
The three Malays with me were Bulang, the guide, Mat Jeher,
and Mat Riflin. Bulang was a short cheerful little fellow who always
looked on the bright side of things. Mat Jeher was of a different
mould, not particularly pleasant to look upon, he was intensely ig-
viorant and therefore superstitious. He had not been up the moun-
tain before and was obviously very perturbed in his mind about the
fate that would overtake him. The third man, Mat Riflin, was, and
still is, the pleasantest Malay that I have ever met. He was then
about 24 years of age and had received sufficient education to
‘discuss the works of Abdullah and the literature described as “ Malay
Readers.”’
The expedition, with a leader who knew enough to recognise
the wisdom of being led, began the journey up the TI'ahan River on
the Lith of May. The Tahan River is not the most navigable river
-in the world, and although in Europe it would not attract notice on
that account, because no one would attempt to navigate it, being of
much the same nature as a rocky trout stream in mountainous
‘ country, here, in the Malay Peninsula, what might be held out in
-the United Kingdom as a lure to trippers, become objectionable fea-
tures that must be surmounted if one would proceed. There is one
“long still reach; the rest is all rapids, nothing really bad in the way
of rapids, nothing to compare with the rapids in the Tembeling.
above Kuala Tahan for instance, but still enough to necessitate
frequent unloading of baggage and hauling the boat over rocks.
- What the distance to Kuala Teku, where one leaves the boat, may
be, I do not know, but it took our, lightly equipped party three days.
to arrive there. The dryness.of the season may have made our
progress slower than it might have been otherwise.
Apart from the beauty of the Tahan River, flowing ¢ over its
rocky bed through an avenue of magnificent jungle trees, two things
associated with it have left a strong impression on my memory.
One was Jeher’s nightmares. On our way upstream we slept in
little sheds built by gutta-hunters. They were most conveniently:
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placed, and as there were no mosquitos, the inability to hang up a.
net inside them did not matter. But we were closely packed, and
when Jeher suddenly leapt up the first night, yelling “ we're sink-
ing, we're sinking, Allah help us, we're lost entirely’ or words to
that effect, we all woke up in alarm. But only that once. Jeher
had nightmares every “night afterwards, being chased by dragons,
crushed by irate Jins, or falling over precipices, but he got no
sympathy. The first yell was the signal for an onslaught by the
remainder of the party that must have made his waking dreams
very realistic.
The other remarkable thing about the Tatian River is that some
one once announced he had counted the rapids and made them
99. This makes the head swim with wonder, first that anyone
should think of counting the rapids at all, secondly, how he found
out where one rapid ended and another began, and thirdly why he
did not make the number 100. There is a story that another tra-
veller shot a gibbon on the banks of the Tahan River and was puni-
shed by the Jins with madness which caused him to take his clothes
off (where he took them off, or when, is not stated). Perhaps the
counter of rapids committed a similar crime and was punished by
being afflicted with a hypersensitive conscience which forbade him —
to-reach the country.
Having arrived at Kuala Teku we found two men belouging to
a party of Survey Coolies who had started up the mountain that
day with a Trigonometrical beacon to be erected on the summit. One
of the men left behind at the Kuala was suffering from dysentery.
Fortunately I had a few tins of milk with me which I left with him,
and, whether it was the milk that cured him or not, was glad to find
on my return that he was well. We slept the night at Kuala Teku,
and on the following morning started up to the first camp. This
was a very short march, and I am convinced that the ascent of the
mountain by this route could be done in shorter time by. going far-
ther the first day ; but it had become the recognised thing to halt
after only three hours climb, the excuse being water difficulties, and
I was not in a position then to tell the men that we could reach
water farther on.
The ascent to the first camp, where there was a large shed,
erected by the 1905 expedition, is steep and somewhat slippery.
This was the cause of.an amusing and unusual sight. The survey
coolies who had gone ahead of us had been warned that- they should
wear boots on account of the bare rocks on the high. plateau- land of
the range. They started with boots, but Houndered about to such
an extent on this soft slippery ground that they took. them off, and,
instead of carrying them with them, left them, hanging in the trees,
a piece of folly that they bitterly regretted when they reached the
top of the range. One man, I learned, was so overcome by having
to carry an iron support while walking unshod over bare rocks, with
abundant sharp quartz crystals, that he sat down and wept. I re-
member a similar occurence near Kuantan, when a Malay whom I
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was trying to persuade to cuf down a tree, work he had been hired
to do, sat down and burst into tears, telling me that the axe was
hurting his hands.
The jungle as far as the first camp seemed to be much the
same as the jungle below, except for the abundance of a fine palm
with broad leaves, usuful for building huts. These the Malays call-
ed Pokok Dongkok. At the first camp, however, situated on the top
of a spur, there was a marked change in the vegetation, things look-
ing lke conifers making their appearance. I have seen similar plants
up other mountains in the States.
The view from the first camp was very fine. One could look
over the broad tract of lowlying land drained by the Pahang River
and also over the belt of hilly land formed by the great outcrop.of
quartzite and conglomerate, of which the Tahan Range is part.
Far away could be seen Gunong Sinyum, the huge limestone hill on
the left bank of the Pahang River. Looking towards Gunong Tahan,
big cliffs were visible which I was told by Bulang were on “ Gunong
Gedong.” I passed over no other mountain on my way to Gunong
Tahan and gathered on my return that the name was merely a
nickname bestowed by Malay coolies on part of Tahan, on account
of its shape. The mention of this name as belonging to a aistinct
mountain unfortunately led me to a serious misconception as to the
lay of the land at the time of my visit.
After a comfortable night, broken only by the usual onslaught
on Jeher, we set out again, plunging down into a ravine and rising
on the other side to a long ridge separating the valley of the Teku,
and, I believe, the Ulu of the Tahan River. We had to walk along
this ridge to reach the elevated plateau-land of the range, some of
which we could now see. How long this ridge is I hesitate to say,
knowing how easy it is to exaggerate. Perhaps two miles would be
near the figure, and were it not for the vegetation, I can quite believe
that the passage might be a thrilling experience. The view was
magnificent. On the right was a great curtain of vegetation in many
hues of green falling away from the ridge with billowing undulations.
On the left was the precipitous valley of the Teku with vertical
cliffs that gave the impression of a huge canyon. On the other
side of the valley was a great stretch of high, but plateau-like coun-
try of which Gunong Ulu Kechau 1s, I believe part. The valley of
the Teku, as seen from the ridge, and from the high land beyond, is
a sight of which I have never seen the equal in the Peninsula.
The cliffs, the great depth of the canyon, and the waterfall at its
head, mark it as something distinet from all the other valleys that I
have seen during my travels in the-Malay States, and it has always
been a matter of regret that when I- saw it I had no camera with
me. It would be difficult to do justice to the scene, however, even
with a camera. The rough sketches on Plate II will perhaps convey
some idea of it.
At the end of the ridge a short ‘scramble up a cliff brought us
to the plateau-land. Here we left the big jungle behind us and found
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ourselves in new surroundings. Low shrubs, the larger ones show-
ing the influence of the strong winds, bare rock, and here and there
a thin covering of peat, gave the impression of moorland, but in
place of heather were strange bushes and the smaller plants were
pitcher-plants, orchids and other things that I will not venture
to name. One comon orchid had a small pale-green flower, and
I was much taken with a large bright yellow flower that I learned
afterwards was a rare orchid found previously on Gunong Bubu. I
do not remember seeing any rhododendrons, but as I would only be
likely to,notice the blossoms, there may have been hundredsiof bushes.
From the plateau we had a good view of Gunong Tahan (Fig.
1, Plate III) with fair sized trees in the shelter of a depression in
the foreground. This I noticed elsewhere on this journey: that in
gullies where the strong winds could not be felt the vegetation was
bigger. The posts seen on the left of the sketch were put up by
the 1905 expedition.
Leaving the plateau-land we dropped into the valley of the
Teku above the waterfall and followed up the stream, jumping from
boulder to boulder, until we arrived at a big pool at an elevation of
about 5000 feet, where the Teku was joined by a tributary. This
was immediately below the ridge leading to the summit of the
mountain, and here we camped for the night. I enjoyed a delight-
ful bathe in the cold water of the pool, but Mat Riflin was the only
one of the Malays to join me.
The following morning a short climb brought us to the top of
the ridge of Gunong Tahan. There is a little flat land even on the
top of this ridge, but I doubt if it could be utilized. From the
Summit we could see another big mountain to the north, afterwards
identified as Gunong Ulu Kamua, and to the west, far below us, a
range of limestone hills that I judged must be the limestone hills
marked on the Royal Asiatic Society’s map in the Ulu of the
Tanun. As it was evident thata clear view of the whole Tahan
Range, or nearly the whole of it, could be obtained from these hills
(the Cherual limestone hills, vide the Geology and Mining Industries
of Ulu Pahang, Plate IV) I determined to visit them later on.
‘During the return journey to the Kuala of the Teku my men
made a collection of the abundant quartz crystals that one finds
scattered over the surface and in veins in the rock. They call them
“intan,” and it is probable that these sparkling, but worthless
_ Stones, seen long ago by some forgotten Malay or aboriginal, are
partly responsible for the Malay notion that the Jins on Gunong
Tahan guarded a treasure of precious stones and gold. I might
remark in passing that I have seen in the Uiu of the Tembeling a
Jin who once lived on Gunong Tahan, but who was hurled down
and turned into stone by the presiding Jin for insubordination.
THE TAHAN RANGE AS SEEN FROM THE CHERUAL
LIMESTONE HILLS.
In July of 1906 I was able to visit the Cherual limestone hills,
seen from the summit of Gunong Tahan. The journey up the S.
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Tanun was made.in a dug-out with a crew of Malays recruited in
the neighbourhood of Kuala Tanun. This crew was the worst I
have ever had. We arrived at our destination without serious
iishap, however, and I landed at the little-known Kampong
Cherual, not far from the Kelantan border. It consisted at that
time, as far as I could discover, of only one house, therefore it was
an easy matter to find the oldest inhabitant. He was an old, but
still active Malay named Yusuf bin Sleiman, who had, he said,
lived there for over twenty-five years. It was clear then that he
was just the sort of man I wanted to tell me the names of the
mountains and the course of the rivers in the neighbourhood, so I
persuaded him to show me a way up the north end of the Cherual
limestone hills to a spot where we had a magnificent view of the
Tahan Range, and where I obtained the hill-sketch shown in Plate 1.
The names shown in this hill-sketch were all written down at
the time of making the sketch at the dictation of Yusuf bin Sleiman,
and | was careful to get him to look along the compass sights in
order to avoid mistakes. The s\nonyms were given me by him
also, but it is interesting to note that although the name Gunong
Tahan was recognized, he and the other inhabitants called the
mountain Gunong Rotan. They also knew it as Gunong Ulu Tanun
on account of the 8. Tanun, so I was informed, rising on its flanks.
This raises an interesting question about the Kelantan-Pahang
boundary, which is determined by the watershed of the Kelantan
and Pahang Rivers. The exact boundary will not be fixed until
the country is surveyed in detail and it will probably be difficult to
define on the west side of the Tahan Range, since the country
between the Tanun and the Kelantan drainage is almost flat. The
watershed runs about east and west, however, and is said by the
Cherual Malays to follow on up to the summit of Gunong Ulu
Kamua. On the west side of the range the drainage south of Gu-
nong Ulu Kamua goes, they say, into the Tanun on the north and
the Kechau on the south. The course of the Tanun near Cherual
certainly supports this statement, and also the statement that it
rises on Gunong Tahan. On the east, however, there is reason to
suppose that the Kelantan-Pahang boundary runs southward along
the Tahan Range as far as Gunong Tahan, and then turns east-
ward as the watershed of that great tributary of the Pahang River,
the S. Tembeliug.
The country between the Cherual limestone hills and the
Tahan Range is gently undulating, and it appeared to me that a
great mistake has been made in attacking the mountain from the
Tembeling side. Waterstradt is the only traveller I know of, who
has tried the ascent from the west, if I understand his account of
his: journey correctly. By this route one could be at the foot of
the range: in four days easily from Lipis, whereas the journey from
Lipis to Kuala Teku takes at least six days. Moreover the Tanun
has few rapids, whereas the Tahan is barely navigable for the
smallest boats.
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TAHAN AS A’ HILL-STATION.
This comparison of routes leads on to the question of the utili-
ty of the Tahan Range as a hill-station. In an appendix to the
account of the 1905 expedition in Vol. iii-of the Journal of the
E_.M.S. Museums, I ventured to say that the range would make an
ideal health station (p. 74). A reviewer found the remark a source
of humour at the time, but now that the establishment of a health-
station is actually being discussed, my critic, if still in the country,
has probably changed his mind. Anyone who knows the cramped
conditions of our existing hill stations would see quickly the enor-
mous advantages of the Tahan Range; the great expanse of open
and comparatively flat country, the elevation (between 4,000-5,000
feet), and the abundance of water. Instead of a monotonous walk
along the same jungle paths day after day, shut in by huge trees,
on the Tahan highland a delightful holiday would be possible
roaming over a fair substitute for moors. Perhaps distance has
tended to lend enchantment since 1906, but others who have visited
the range seem to be of the same opinion as myself, with the result
that, as already stated, the establishment of a hill-station is being
discussed. The feasibility of the plan depends on the extension
of the Pahang Railway, and I hope that that extension will pass
between the Cherual limestone hills and the Tahan Range, con-
necting with a funicular railway up to the highlands.
GUNONG RIAM
Gunong Tahan, far away from roads and, at present, from a
~ railway, has been visited by few Europeans, and even seen by few
Europeans. Gunong Riam, better known «as Gunong Kerbau, on
the other hand, is a familiar sight to dwellers in Kinta, raising its
sharply outlined ridge high above the little town of Tanjong
Rambutan and plainly visible from the greater part of the district.
He would be an unobservant traveller, who on a clear day failed to
notice its giant form while passing Tanjong Rambutan in the mail-
train.
Although deprived of its pride of placeas the supposed highest
mountain in the Peninsula, Gunong Riam always attracted me as a
climb for several reasons, and in February of this year (1912) I
made the ascent. Since my trip to Tahan I had climbed Ulu Kali
in Selangor and Berembun in Perak, but a long interval had elapsed
since the last long mountain trip, which perhaps was the reason
that I relied on a Malay Penghulu to make necessary preparations
for me at Tanjong Rambutan, so that I might go to the town by
train and start up the mountain without delay. -The Penghulu was
approached through the proper channel and promised to have a
» guide, men, and elephants ready on a certain day... I had been told
that elephants were always taken part of the way and therefore
asked the Penghulu to hire them, although travelling with them is
to court misery. On the appointed day I proceeded to Tanjong
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Rambutan and found nothing whatever ready. I then had to
make my own arrangements, and having heard, fortunately, that
e'ephants could go but a short part of the way, looked out for a
suide and men only. Five days later a heavy fee had secured a
guide, who lett his work to accommodate me, and six Malays to
carry baggage, including a small tent. Hverything was ready by 8
a.m. and having already committed one foolish mistake by putting
my trust in a Penghulu, I proceeded to make another by allowing
the six men to go by a so-called short cut over a hill, while Midin,
the guide, and myself, with a Chinese boy and a Malay employee,
took the regular route up the Kinta River. We were to camp that
night near Kuala Termin, a short march but a recognized halting-
place, like the first camp on the way to Tahan. Never shall I
forget that day. The detiils would be painful to relate : suffice it to
say that after waiting four hours for the men to emerge from their
’ short-cut,” I found them cooking rice by the side of the Kinta
River, and, of course, complaining about the weight of the baggage.
The rice was not eaten. After this experience I displayed a
fondness for the society of these Malays that surprised them, and
they were always in front of me until the last day of the descent.
One of these gentlemen appears in Fig. 1 of Plate [V. The size of
the bundle he is carrying is worth nothing. He was an ex-police man,
I was not surprised to hear it.
The camp near Kuala Termin was only about 700 feet ahove
Tanjong Rambutan and situated on the right bank of the Kinta
River. Midin was expecting some Senoi men to join us there and
had asked me to bring tobacco and rice to give to them as pay.
The Senoi, five of them, were there on our arrival, and helped them-
selves liberally to the articles mentioned and then went home. The
necessity of six Malays and five Senoi had not dawned on me when
this happened, but nevertheless the conduct of these men, whom we
never saw again, and could not trace to their houses, seemed repre-
hensible. However, by the following morning Midin had caught
three others, and we set out up the Termin a party of thirteen.
The Malays, as usual, when Senoi men are with them, made the
latter carry the greater part of the baggage. It was as well, because
if I had had-the Malays only we would never have arrived at the
top. .
On the second day we passed by a Chinese tin-stealers’ kongsi,
and then rose to 2,900 feet above Tanjong Rambutan, camping by
the Batu Salik, a huge mass of granite with a small gully close by
wherein is the cross erected in memory of J. A. A. Williams, who
had ascended the mountain and died from fever on that spot in
1892. _The march to Batu Salik was another short march, and on
the following day I had the prospect of getting the men up the
remaining four thousand odd feet in one march. It does not sound
difficult of accomplishment, but anyone who had seen my Malays ~
would have understood my anxiety. . We started at 8 a.m. and I
arranged that the men were to climb five hundred feet at a time
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with a rest of five minutes between each instalment. Shortly after
leaving camp one of the men sat down, but got up again when the
programme was explained to him. It proved an excellent plan, for
we arrived at the Trigonometrical Survey beacon on the summit
at 12.40.
Very soon after leaving Batu Salik we emerged from the dense
jungle onto the ridge marked by the dotted line in Fig. 2 of Plate
III, which leads up to the summit. The vegetation on this ridge is
low and in several places one can walk along enjoying a perfect
view on either side over the bushes (vide the foreground in Fig. 1
of Plate IV). On other parts of the ridge, however, we plunged
through vegetation such as that shown in Fig. 2 of Plate IV and
there was one part where we walked in a bower of mosses hanging
from the short-trunks and branches of stunted trees.
The most noticeable point about the vegetation was the abund-
ance of rhododendrons and large pitcher plants. A bunch of rhodo-
dendrons is shown in Fig. 2 of Plate IV. AsI write this I amin
England and I was very interested on landing in comparing garden
rhododendrons with those I saw on Riam. The flowers of the
garden plants are perhaps a little finer individually, and they
certainly grow in larger clusters. On account of the small size of
the plants compared with the Malayan examples they make a better
show of bloom, but the rhododendrons on Riam are nevertheless a
beautiful sight and with julicious pruning could probably be greatly
improved. 2
_ There were several other strange flowers, including a ground
orchid, but nothing of much note as far as beauty was toncerned.
A very slender bamboo occurs that is probably the famous Malayan
“ Bulu berindu”’, but I have never heard a Malay admit the identity,
although I have seen this slender bamboo elsewhere. Nor have I
ever succeeded in persuading a Malay to take a piece down toa
Kampong to try the affect. I remember once that after seeing the
bamboo on another mountain I discussed the matter with one of
the men. He decided that the bamboo we had seen could not be
the “‘ Bulu berindu’’ because it was so easy to obtain. The real
“ Bulu berindu”’ always had thunderstorms and thick clouds around
it, while dragons and other ferocious creatures guarded the
approaches. I met no dragons on Riam.
Fig. 1 of Plate IV shows the beacon on the summit of Riam.
As can be seen from the photograph the mountain is an exposed
place on which to camp and I do not remember many more uncom-
fortable nights than that spent there. The weather was unfavour-
able. It was clear when we arrived, but about 2 p.m. it began to
rain and blow and continued doing so until 10 p.m. My tent was
slung under the beacon but the cold wind found me out, and even
after 10 p.m. it was bitterly cold. I put on two flannel shirts and
my jungle clothes, including boots and putties, and crept under two
blankets but still felt chilled. At 4 p.m. the temperature was 58
Fahr. What it dropped to afterwards I do not know, as I was too
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cold to get out of bed and look. Judging from the comparative
comfort of sleeping in. the open, and on the ground, in another
country when the thermometer showed 12° of frost, the minimum
on Riam that night might have been zero, but I do not suppose it
fell below 54° Fahr.
Iam unable to describe the magnificence of the view from
Riam. I doubt if anyone could do justice to it. ‘The great peaks
around me in the main range of the Peninsula, and the cloud-filled
valleys made a far grander panorama than the view from Tahan.
One thing I will try to describe. Some time after midnight I woke
up and saw the Southern Cross shining brightly. Later a crescent
moon and a brilliant planet rose, showing up the dark outlines of
Gunong-Gyang and Yang Blar. Then these paled as the dawn
broke and masses of pink clouds became visible in the valleys. The
light grew in the east with a wonderful glow of red and urange, and,
to my delight, showed up with perfect definition the distant Tahan
Range as a black silhouette against the coming sunrise. The range
was far, far away, but so clearly was it seen that it might have
been a tiny ridge but a mile or so distant. Then as the sun rose
above the horizon, the Tahan range disappeared in a shimmering
blue haze, and the glory of the morning lit up all the surrounding
peaks. I have never seen anything to equal that sunrise on Gunong
Riam, and do not expect to see anything to equal it, but words
cannot describe it adequately.
I have referred to this mountain as Riam although it is
generally known as ‘Kerbau,” and must now explain why. I had
heard long ago that Riam was the correct Malay name but had also
been told that a Kerbau”’ had nothing to do with a watec-buffalo,
but was a corruption of a Senoi word meaning mountain, so that
“Gunong Kerbau’”’ would mean simply “Mountain Mountain.”’
This I thought might explain the appearanee on the new map,
published by the Society, of the name © Korbu”’ for this mountain,
which I had not heard before;-but I learned from- Midin, who had
been up the hill on three previous occasions, and the Senoi men,
that [ was on the wrong track. The local Senoi word for mountain
is, I was told, “ Jelmul,’’ which cannot possibly be connected with
“ Kerbau’”’ or “ Korbu.” The Malay name for this mountain is
‘“Riam” and always has been so; but once many years ago a
Frenchman, not knowing this, ascended the mountain from Sungei
Siput by a route following a stream called the S. Kerbau and there-
fore called the mountain © Gunong Kerbau.”’ Hence, if my informa-
tion is correct, Gunong Kerbau”’ is a misnomer of French origin.
IT have some old literature that leads me to suspect the identity of
the Frenchman, but the matter is not of sufficient Im BOEIne.. Lo
discuss here.
_ On our. way down from the mountain we had an amusing ex-
perience at the tin-stealers’ Kongsi, where we slept for the night.
The tin-stealers had decamped at our approach an 1 we found a com-
modious house wherein to cook our food, dry clothes, and rest.
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But we thought it likely that the Chinese tenants might return at
night to enter into possession again, not knowing we had elected to
remain, and therefore, when about 10 p.m. we were aroused by a
shout outside and the light of a torch, there was some excite-
ment. Isat up and saw a fierce looking man advance and shake
the bamboo door violently. He had a large spear with him, and
I quickly realized that he was a Senoi. Then when the door was
opened as romantic a group of human beings came in as could be
imagined. The first to enter was the man with the spear. He
also had a blowpipe, and was a short, thick-set, middle-aged man
‘with a fine though savage face, who came in unconcernedly and sat
down by the remnants of a fire. After him came two little child-
ren, two minute dots of savagery with timid mien and hesitating
steps. Last came the mother, a by no means uncomely Senoi lady,
left to straggle in as she thought fit. What this family was doing
abroad in the jungle at night I do not know. They spent the night
in the Kongsi and went their own way next morning.
The Senoi youth in Fig. 2 of Plate IV was one of the men who
came with me. I photographed him as an exceptionally pleasant
type of savage. Some of my anthropological friends, if they saw
him, might say that his pleasantness, and cleanliness showed the
contamination of civilization. For myself, the pleasanter and
‘cleaner a savage is, the better I like him.
As a possible health resort Riam is useless, as jsf consists of
one sharp waterless ridge. Asa mountain well w © h visitmg,
however, | commend Gunong Riam to all who d\ in Kinta.
Two days good walking from Tanjong Rambutan shu bring one
to the top, and although Malays may talk of the natuiiu difficulties
of the journey, no one but a cripple would be stopped by them.
The only difficulty is the transport of baggage, and if anyone deter-
mines to ascend the mountain, I would advise them to send for
Senoi from the Ulu of the Kinta, who would also act as guides.
The Malays of the neighbourhood are not very much use, although
I must say that one man with me worked well for his wages. Apart
from transport troubles I regard the ascent of Riam as the easiest
climb I have had in the Peninsula.
COMPARISON OF THE STRUCTURE OF GUNONG TAHAN, GUNONG
RIAM AND OTHER PENINSULAR MOUNTAINS.
In conclusion I will deal very briefly with the stfucture of
Gunong Tahan, Gunong. Riam, and other mountains in the main
range. It is common knowledge that the main range is mostly
composed of granite. Granite is a rock that solidified at a consi-
derable depth from the surface. In the case of the main range of
the Peninsula the granite rose in a molten state in the crust before
solidifying, the rise being rendered possible by the folding of
stratified rocks above into an arch, or anticline, of great length.
Two at least of these anticlines were formed at the same time, or
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20 | GUNONG TAHAN AND GUNONG RIAM.
about the same time, which I have called the Main Range Anti-
cline, and the Benom Anticline. As these arches were formed, much
of the rock fell into the molten granite, but when the latter consoli-
dated, stratified rocks remained above. Much later in the earth’s
history denudation laid bare the granite cores below the remains of
these anticlines, carving out the main range and the Benom range.
In time denudation will cut down into these granite masses. How
far have they cut down already ?
It is obvious that at some period of the process of denudation
the highest peaks would show remains of the superincumbent
stratified rocks. At such a time a large part of the surface of the
granite core would be visibie In the case of the main range there
is some reason to suppose from the evidence of the distribution of
tin-deposits that denudation has not gone far beyond this surface
of the core of granite, and it is very interesting to find, as de
Morgan noted in the eighties, that the summit of Riam is composed
of altered stratified rocks, phyllites and quartzite. On this, the
highest peak of the main range, there is then a remnant of the
superincumbent stratified rocks, corroborating the other evidence
“of denudation not having advanced far into the granite mass. I
~ expect too that stratified rocks will be found on Gunong Gyang, on
Yang Blav, and other high peaks in the neighbourhood. We may
regard these rocks on Riam as a remnant of the lid of the
Peninsula’’ which, when removed, revealed the vast wealth of
tin-ore below.
Riam, then preserves for us a portion of this lid. Lower peaks
in the main range that I have ascended, Gunong Ulu Kali and Gu-
nong Berembun, have been stripped of these rocks and show granite
only, as far as we know.
Gunong Tahan however, and the Tahan range generally, although
connected with this folding, fall into a different category. A glance
at the map shows that the Benom Anticline lies parallel to the
Main Range Anticline. Between the two anticlines the east limb
of the latter and the west limb of the former meet, and when they
meet we find a range of hills formed of quartzite and conglomerate.
These rocks are the younger members of the two arches, and we ex-
pect to find them of course on the east side of Benom as part of the
east limb of the Benom Anticline. They are there, forming a great
belt of hilly cotintry stricking through the centre of Pahang and
including the Tahan range, which is on the western border of this
belt.
The Tahan range, then, including Gunong Tahan, is part of
one of the two great arches.
Gunong Riam is capped by a small remnant of the other of
the two arches, but is chiefly composed of granite.
Gunong Ulu Kali, Berembun, and the majority of the peaks
in the main range, as far as we know, retain no trace of the arch,
but consist of the solid granite core only.
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JOURNAL, STRAITS BRANCH, MOYAL ASIATIC OOCIETY, N= OC. rlacte ft.
a ~ The Valley of the S.Teku. View on the way to
Gunong Tahan.
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of making the sketch from YusurF BIN SLEIMAN of Kampong Cherual.
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JouRNAL, STRAITS BRANCH, Roya Asiatic Society, N°62.’ Plate Ill.
i G. TAHAN from the elevated plateau-land
of the Tahan Range.
Riam. Gyang.
G.RIAmM & G.GYANG from the |Ipoh-Tambun Road.
Part of the route up Riam is shown by dotted lines.
JOURNAL, STRAITS BRANCH, Roya Asiatic Society, N962. Plate IV.
2. Semon youth with rhododendrons
on Gwnong Fi Sine
Bemrose, Collo,, Derby.
GUNONG TAHAN AND GUNONG RIAM.
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.
Plate I. Hill Sketch of the Tahan Range.
Elate ll. . Wig:
Fig.
Plate Uf. - . Fig:
Fig.
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Gunong Ulu Kechau.
2. Valley of S. Teku.
bor tee
. Gunong Tahan.
. Gunong Riam and Gunong Coane
Summit of Gunong Riam.
. Senoi Youth.
*Erratum : for ‘Gwnong’ read ‘Gunong’.
R. A. Soc., No. 62, 1912.
Three Early Keris.
By R. O. WINSTEDT, F.M.S. Crvin SERVICE:
With Plates V. and VI.
The three kéris illustrated in Plate V, different views of two of
which may be seen in Plate VI, are probably the earliest authenti-
cated specimens in any English collection. To describe them brief-
ly. The kérts on the left, a curving blade with 13 lok, has a hilt
showing the features of a Kuropean ina helmet and chain gorget,
features as caricatured as is the portrait of the Dutchman in the
folk-tale of Anggun che Tunggul
Gérham-nya émpat sa-rumpun ;
Sa-gantang makan daging ;
Dua chupak lékat di gigi-nya. }
The small kérzs in the centre of Plate VY and on the left of Plate
VI has a hilt carved with the Javanese representation of some demi-
god from the wayang kulit cycle, possibly Arjuna; probably, any
Javanese could identify it, though writing in England I have no
means to discover. Itis to b3 noted that the angle of the hilt follows
the conventional attitude of the Jawa démam or cobra-headed
Malay hilt, the evolution of which is and probably will remain un-
solved. It may be remaiked, that the high forehead of Javanese
demi-gods would seem to point to this artistic type deriving from
a people among whom binding of the head was a custom.
The third kéris, which is il!ustrated only in Plate V is interest-
ing for several reasons:—the blade, by the bye, is damasked and
has eleven lok. The hilt preserves the conventional angle of the
Jawa démam; the long-nosed figure (the nose unfortunately has
been broken off) with its row of teeth has a striking affinity with
the still longer nosed figure on Patani kérzs hilts, but the back of
its head is carved with hair like that of the last kér7zs. And it is to
be noted that the curved conventional ornament round mouth
and chin is almost identical with that round mouth and chin of the
Javanese demi-god.
These three kéris are now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,
and belong to the old Tradescant Collection, which dates from the
beginning of the 17th century.
John Tradescant the elder is said byAnthony & Wood to have
been a Dutchman, but was.probably English even in his name, of
which other variants were Tradeskin and Tredeskin. He and his
son of the same name were travellers, naturalists and gardeners
and introduced into England the lilac, acacia, occidental plane
and possibly the pine-apple. In the service of George Villiers,
Duke of Buckingham, the father dealt “with all merchants
from all places but especially from Virginia, Bermudas, New-
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PRATE V.
JOURNAL, STRAITS BRANCH, RoYAt AsIaTIc Society, No. 62.
KERIS IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUusEuM, OxForp.
Eemrose, Collo., Derby.
JOURNAL, STRAITS BRANCH. Roya Asiatic Society, No. 62. PLA Vi
LATE VI.
KERIS IN THE ASHMOLEAN Museum, OxForp.
Bemrose, Collo., Derby
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THREE EARLY KERIS. 22
foundland, Guinea, Binney, the Amazon and the East Indies for
all manner of rare beasts fowls and birds shells and stones.”
On Buckingham’s death, he seems to have entered the service of the
king and queen and probably at that date established his physic
garden and museum_at the east side of South Lambeth Road, leading
from Vauxhall to Stockwell, He was the first in England who
“made any considerable collection of the subjects of natural history.”
He died 1637-1638. The son succeeded the father as gardener to
Queen Henrietta Maria, and was also a traveller. In 1656 resol-
ving to take a catalogue of those rarities and curiosities which my
father had sedulously collected’’ he published his Musewm Trades-
cantianum. This book in its 179 pages contains lists of birds,
shells, fishes, insects, minera!s, fruits, war instruments, habits,
utensils, coins and medals. Among entries of other warlike
instruments from Japan. Turkey, India, China, Canada, Virginia,
Ginny, Persia, and Muscovy occurs the entry on page 46 of
Poisoned creeses or Daggers, two wavel two plain’’-—ap-
parently one of the plain has been lost. In 1659 Tradeseant and his
wife sealed and delivered a deed of gift of this collection of rarities
to Sir Thomas Ashmole, but his will of date 1661 bequeathed
the ‘éolleetion to his wife for life and after her decease to the Uni-
versities of Oxford and Cambridge ta which of them she shall think
fit.” There was a law-suit and Ashmole got the collection © to have
and enjoy.” In 1677 Ashmole offered it to Oxford as soon as a build-
ing should be erected to receive it. In.1683 Wren finished a build-
ing and the collection went to Oxford in barges’, and “‘t'e name
of Tradescant was unjustly sunk in that of: Ashmole.” Ashmole,
of course, was not a traveller, but Windsor herald and autho: of a
book on the order of the Garter.
“ Theold M.S catalogue of the Tralescant collection compile 1 ir
1685 by Edward Lhywd, first Assistant Keeper of the Ashmo'ean
and still preserved in the archives of the museums G)ntains entries
of several creeses vaguely described and an attempt at exact des-
eription of the little demi-god hilted kéris : “117 Pugio anceps in
mucronem exit, manubrium simiae tmaginem exprinut: a double-edged,
dagger tapering to a point,—its handle exhiliting the figure of an
ape.” The vagina lignea or wooden scabbard has been lost.
The official catalogue of the Ashmolean Collection of 1836 has
the entries
32 Two Malay creeses or daggers with waved blades. Mus. Tradese.
33 Another with straight blade. Mus. Tradesc.
So we have the history of these three kérzs established practi-
eally beyond doubt back to the early yeursof the XVIth century.
Iam indebted to Mr. E. T. Leeds, formerly of the F. M.S. Civil
Service and now Assistant Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum for
eallling my attention to these weapons, getting them photographed
for me and putting the Catalogues cited at my disposal,
R. A. Soc., No, 62, 1912.
Mount Ophir Legends.
By Dr. MILDRED E. STALEY.
I. [n No. 60 of this Journal there is an interesting account of
Malacca by Barretto de Resende.
In connection with the last part of it, regarding Gunong Ledang
(Mount Ophir), the following notes may be of interest.
Lately, when visiting Kampongs at the base of the mountain,
I obtained the modern, 1912, version of the story.
In a eave which is brilliantly illuminated by scintillating lights,
lives the Queen- Goddess or Sorceress, variously describedas a Bida-
hari,” “Perempuan Sakti’ ete. There she is waitel upon by
* Spirits of the air’’ (called formeriy Benwas,) demons, and a tiger
who is her familiar, into whom she can at will project herself.
She resents all attempts of Malays to climb the mountain, but
Engiish (orang puteh) are exenpt from her anger, because it has
not struzk her they would evec wish to remain on the mountain !
Hence also, Malays are suffered to ascend temporarily when acting
as guides.
Aul animals bow down to her, and her tiger has a sense of smell
so keen that he can inform her at once when a party commences to
ascend. ‘The Sorceress then retires into her cave, which eye of
man has never seen, or mayhap she is pleased to enter the tiger.
Once long, long ago, the last Sultan but one (? Ala-e-din), wished to
make friends with the Sorceress, and sent from Malacca ambassa-
dors, d essed in fresh odoriferous tiger skins, to offer her marriage
on his own behaif. Her reply was that she would accept the offer
only when the Sultan fulfilled the following requirements.
First, he must build a bridge of solid gold from the top of her
mountain to the Malacca Hill, whereby she might be suitably con-
veyed across.
Secondly, the Sultan must send her 10,000 mosquitos’ hearts
as a present.
Thirdly he must send a cupful of his own blood.
The Sultan replied that he was rich enough to build the bridge
of gold, and that 10.000 mosquitos’ hearts were easy to supply, but
to give of his heart’s blood was quite impossible. So the negocia-
tions fell through. Before ascending the mountain, a counter
spell supplied by the village Pawang at considerable expense, is a
necessity for a Malay who is willing to brave the Hantus, jins, and
malevolent demons of the mountain.
An enlightened Mohommedan Malay of the neighbourhood, |
whose child’s life we had saved in a dangerous illness, when pressed
to speak openly, confessed his firm belief that the mountain was
the resort of demons, saying, “There would not be all these stories
without reality behind them.”
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MOUNT OPHIR LEGENDS. 25
Tt will be noted that the many tigers formerly infesting the
mountain, are now reduced to one. No doubt when a good road up
has been constructed, and Mount Ophir is a favorite Sanitarium
for the sick and tired inhabitants of Negri Sembilan and Malacca
districts, the Sorceress and all the demons will betake themselves
elsewhere.
II. In reference to the “Saletes’’ (orang-laut), mentioned
in the appendix, I have occasionally seen their present day descen-
dants in the art, spearing their fish in deep water just as it was done
of old. The javelin, attached by thin twine to the wrist, is thrown
with sure and powerful aim by the fisherman, standing not in a boat,
but on some miniature pier or © water-machan”’ of bamboo, built
into the sea.
Ill. In connection with Goddesses, it may be of interest to
report that one day in a distant Kampong, I found the Malays busy
propitiating the celebrated Hindu Goddess of Smallpox, Sztla.
I was familiar with her chief shrine, to be found near Gurgaon,
Punjab, which is yearly visited by crowds of pilgrims from all
over Northern and Central India.
In this case, the familiar ceremonies were being performed by
a Hindu fakir (holy man) in orange garments, bearing on his forehead
the three-fold upright marks of Civa the Destroyer, assisted by two
followers chanting appropriate mantras to a small mud image of the
“Slaying One.” With simple faith, the people paid heavily for this
attempt to avert the epidemic.
One was reminded of the saying (Rg Veda) “ They speak of
Mitra, Varuna, Agni;—that which Is and is One, the poets call
in various ways.’
R. A. Soc., No.-62, 1912.
Mosquito Larve and Freshwater Fish.
By DR. Rh. HANIESCH:
The following pages contain a Report which I prepared, at the
request of Government, upon the possible usefulness of the small
fish Haplochilus panchax, the ‘Ikan mata lalat’ of the Malays, in
keeping down Mosquito larvee and consequently Malaria, as the
fish ‘ Millions’ of Barbados is said to do.
The island of Barbados enjoys a remarkable immunity from
fever, and two or three years ago, when the reason of this.was put
down to the presence in enormous numbers, on the island, of a
certain fish which feeds on small crustaceans and insects, including
mosquito larvee, the Colonial Office decided to try the experiment
of distributing that fish among the various tropical Colonies, to
ascertain if it might be of any service in checking Malaria in other
places as well. This fish, the ‘Millions’ (Girardinus poaciloides,
de Filippi *), so called on account of the enormous numbers in
which it occurs in Barbados, is only a small species, according to
Giinther, about 1$ inches in length, and belongs to the family Cypri-
nodontide.
The Zoological Society of London, together with the Agricul-
tural Department of Barbados, declared itself willing to help in
the experiment and in the distribution of the Fish, though there
was some scepticism as to whether.the experiment would be a suc-
cess.t However, as a closely allied fish, Haplochilus panchaz, the
‘Tkan mata lalat’ of the Malays, occurs in the Malay region, it
was thought that before introducing here the Millions’ of Barba-
dos, it should be ascertained whether the Haplochilus panchax
might not be as effective in checking Mosquito larve, and I was
accordingly asked to investigate the matter.
RAFFLES MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
SINGAPORE.
15th May, 1912.
To the Hon’ble The Colonial Secretary, S.S.
Sir,
In accordance with your minute of 21-3-1912 (H. C. 2943) I
have the honour to submit herewith a Report on the distribution
and habits of the fish Haplochilus panchazx, H. B.
(oF
* Giinther (Brit. Mus Catal. Fishes, Vol. VI, p. 856) and D. S. Jordan and
B. N. Evermann (The Fishes of North and Middle America. Vol. I, p. 689) refer
to it under the name Lebistes peciloides.
t See letter of Captain J. A. M. Vipan in Proccedings, Zoological Society,
1910, pp. 146-147.
Jour. Straits Branch
MOSQUITO LARVA) AND FRESHWATER FISH. 27
As the object of the enquiry is to ascertain whether the fish
might be of the same use as the fish ' Millions” (Girardinus peci-
loides) of Barbados in keeping down mosquito larve and conse-
quently malaria, it would have served no purpose if I had restricted
my enquiry to that one species of fish, and I have therefore attemp-
ted to collect species of all freshwater fish in the neighbourhood of
the town of Singapore, and have made experiments as to whether
they feed on mosquito larvz or not.
Obviously only the smallest species of freshwater fish were
found in the small ditches, and of these Haplochilus panchax, the
~ Ikan mata lalat’’ of the Malays, seemed to be the most common.
Like the “ Millions’ of Barbados, it belongs to the family Cypri-
nodontidz, which, according to Giinther, includes the smallest fish
known. It grows to only about 2’ in length, but notwithstanding
its small size it is probably the best known of the local freshwater
fish, not so much on account of its numbers, as from the very con-
spicuous bright silvery spot on the top of its head. It is of slow
moving habits, and generally keeps close to the surface of the
water. We found it in the following places:—junction of River
Valley Road and Leonie Hill Road; Tanglin Road; Botanic Gar-
dens; off Orange Grove Road; Kim Kiat Road; Syed Ali Road;
Gaylang Road; Teluk Blangah Road, but it could be found in
almost any ditch capable of holding fish. It eats mosquito larve,
but not greedily.
Another small species, also common, though less so than the
previous one, is the Hemirhamphus fluviatilis, Bleeker (Ikan jolong
jolong). It is an ally of the Gar-Pike and the Flying fish, and it is
easily recognised by its lower jaw being drawn out into a long beak.
It grows to about 23” in length, and was found in the following
places:—junction of River Valley Road and Leonie Hill Road;
Orange Grove Road; Tanglin Road; Jervois Road; Kim Kiat Road;
Teluk Blangah Road. It is a delicate fish, not always surviving the
journey to the Museum. It is herbivorous, living on Algae and
Waterweeds, and does not eat mosquito larve.™
A great favourite amongst sporting natives is the Fighting Fish
(Betta pugnax, Cantor), or “Ikan pelaga’”’. It grows to about 34).
It has a large ventral fin, drawn out to a point posteriorily, and its
colour is a dull purple, which, however, changes into dazzling me-
tallic colours when the fish is excited. It is very active, and ate
mosquito larve greedily within a few seconds of their being given
to it. We found it in Somerset Road; Jervois Road; Moulmein
Road ; and in large numbers, especially, in the pond at the junction
of Syed Ali Road and Thompson Road, which is being filled up at
present.
A larger fish than any of these above is the © Ikan sepat”’
(Osphromenus trichopterus, Pall.), belonging to the same family as
*I have since repeated the experiment with the same result, and this fish
seems to be the only one of those I examined which does not eat mosquito
larve.
R. A. Soc., No. 62, I9!12.
28 MOSQUITO LARVA AND FRESHWATER FISH.
the Fighting Fish, viz. the Labyrinthici. It is edible, but is much
less valued than Gurami (Osphromenus olfax) which for the table
is regarded as the best of the local freshwater fishes. The Ikan
sepat grows to about 4’’, and is distinghished by its beautiful irri-
descent colours and its ventral fin being transformed into a long
thread-like ray, often reaching beyond the tail. It has two round
black spots on either side, which are very marked in the young.
We caught it in Orchard Road (in the ditch in front of the Police
Station), in Jervois Road, Somerset Road, Syed Ali Road, and noticed
it also in the swamps near Teluk Blangah Road. The young ate
mosquito larve, though not ravenously, whilst full grown speci-
mens seemed to despise them.
To the same family belongs the ‘Ikan betok’’ or Climbing
Perch (Anabas scandens, Dald.) The largest specimens we found
measured about 44", though, according to Cantor, it grows up to
7". This fish can live a long time out of water, and it is well as-
certained that it can travel on land, pushing itself along by its fins.
We caught it off Gaylang Road, and noticed it in the swamps at
Teluk Blangah. The young ones ate mosquito larve greedily. No
experiments were made with full grown specimens.
The ‘Ikan aruan’ (Ophiocephalus striatus, Bl.), belonging to the
family of Ophiocephalidie, is also able to live out of water and to
travel over damp grass. It is much eaten, aud grows, according to
Duncker, to about 23 feet in length. The young ones, of which we
caught some at Syed Ali Road, are of a golden orange colour, and
ate mosquito larvae greedily. We saw the same fish at Teluk
Blangah.
The Catfish, or “ Ikan keli’’? (Clarias magur, H. B.), occurs in
many places in Singapore Island, such as the Botanic Gardens,
Syed Ali Road, Teluk Blangah Road, but no experiments were made
with it.*
The above enumerated fishes seem to be the more common
ones in the neighbourhood of Singapore town. Whilst collecting
them we were constantly on the look out for mosquito larve (Malay
name jentek-jentek’’), and it must be stated that, perhaps with
one exception, no mosquito larve were found in any great numbers
in places in which there were fish or which were easily accessible to
fish.
For instance I had expected to find many mosquito larve in
the swampy district between Killiney Road, Devonshire Road, and
*T may adda few words, as I have since been able to get additional ma-
terial, from Lavender Street. The Catfish. thus called from the eight long bar-
bules which arise from around its mouth and have some resemblance to a
cat’s whiskers, lives in muddy water and is a very active and shy fish. It grows,
according to Cantor, to at least £§ feet in length, but experiments were naturally
made only with small specimens, one to two inches in length, such as would be
likely to feed on mosquito larve. The first experiments were quite negative in
result, and only after the fish had been kept on short rations for a couple of
days,did it begin to eat mosquito larvee. Its usual diet seems to be decaying ani-
mal and vegetable matter.
Jour. Straits Branch
MOSQUITO LARVA AND FRESHWATER FISH. 29
Somerset Road, but discovered them (those of Culex) only ina
single pool, and that contained no fish. I then examined the com-
pound of a Kuropean house in Killiney Road, which is unoccupied
at present, and found the place littered with old tins full of the
larvee of the Tiger Mosquito (Stegomyia fasciata).
An examination of certain pools off Gaylang Road showed strik-
ing results, from which, however, it might be rash to generalize.
The pools were at the edge of the mangrove zone, they were numer-
ous, and had been formed to a great extent as depressions between
the mounds of the Cray-fish Thalassina anomala, which is so com-
mon in such localities. One of the pools was thick and black with
mosquito larvze (Culex), but contained no fish ; another pool, only
SN a yard off, was free from larve, but contained fish (Ikan mata
lalat).
We also examined the most malarial region in Singapore, the
swamps of Teluk Blangah, and found mosquito larve in the follow-
ing situations: in empty tins lying about; in freshly formed pools
at the top of the reclamation ; in a small pool, at a level with the
main pool, which contained only a single specimen of a fish (Ikan
mata lalat); and, finally, we found numbers of the larve of Anc-
pheles in the dense masses of waterweed in the largest pool there,
the weed being so thick that probably no fish could penetrate it.
Besides, the weed was so full of other minute animal life, that, even
if a fish had penetrated there, he could scarcely have been expected
to devote himself entirely to the mosquito larvae. The open and
clean stretches of water in the pool contained several species of
fish (Ikan mata lalat, Ikan jolong-jolong, Ikan betok, Ikan sepat,
Ikan aruan and Ikan keli), but wedid not notice any mosquito
larvee there.
The pond at the junction of Syed Ali Road and Thomson Road,
which is being filled up at present, certainly contained mosquito
larvee (Culex) in places which seemed quite accessible to the numer-
ous fish in it, but the general microscopic life there was so abundant
that there was no need for any fish to restrict its diet to mosquito
larvee especially.
Whether the fish “ Millions’”’, if imported into such a locality,
would show a marked predilection for mosquito larve, is doubtful.
It is also uncertain whether it would be able to hold its own against
theseveral species of fish indigenous to Singapore Island. In Barba-
dos it is only the freshwater fish known (see Captain Vipan’s letter
in Proc. Zoological Society, February 1910, pp. 146-147), and it
may not be equal to the competition with any other fish. How-
ever, as the Agricultural Department of Barbados has arranged to
send from time to time consignments of © Millions” to the Zoologi-
cal Gardens, London, from there to be distributed through the
Colonial Office to various tropical Colonies, the experiment of bring-
ing some to Singapore should be easy and inexpensive, best perhaps
on a troopship in charge of the ship’s surgeon. But it must be
remembered that to introduce an animal into another part of the
R, 4. Soc., No. 62, 1912.
SOP MOSQUITO LARVA AND FRESHWATER FISH.
world always brings the risk of the accidental introduction of some
other and undesirable organism. In the meantime it seems advis-
able to fill up all large pools in the neighbourhood of the town, or,
if this is not feasible, to clean them of all surplus vegetation, and to
introduce into them small species of fish such as are known to feed
on mosquito larvae, like the © Ikan mata lalat’”’ and especially the
“ Tkan pelaga”’.
However, there must be in a town like Singapore many locali-
ties in which Anopheles and other mosquitos breed, and which are
quite inaccessible to fish, and by far the greater area of the town
would probably not be touched at all by preventive measures, such
as the introduction of fish. If, as I know from my own experience,
Anopheles, besides Culex and Stegomyia, may practically any day
be found in a comparatively healthy part such as Fort Canning Road,
then an attempt to exterminate malaria by means of fish in the
crowded central districts of the town would be utterly hopeless.
But the experiment might be of use in the outskirts of the town.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant
R. HANITSCH,
Director.
Jour Straits Branch
Population of the Straits Settlements and
Malay Peninsula during the last Century
By H. MARRIOTT.
I have collected in the annexed tables statistics of the popula-
tion according to race and sex for the Colony, and according to sex
for the Malay States.
So far as the Colony is concerned the figures are probably ac-
curate from 1871 onwards. Before that date the censuses were
taken by the police at somewhat ivregular intervals and are not very
reliable.
Between 1822 and 1836 the figures have been derived from Mr.
Newbold’s “ British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca.’’ From
1836 to 1860 I have been unable to get many figures, and from that
date they are taken from the Census Reports. With regard to the
Federated Malay States, no reliable data are to be procured previous
to 1891, and for the other Protected States the Census Returns for
1911 are the first of any practical importance.
It may however be of interest to add here the following esti-
mate of the population of the States of the Peninsula in the years
1835-1836 given by Mr. Newbold in the work quoted above.
Perak vee vee «+» 39,000
Selangor Ee See eee E2000
Rembau is a oe 9,000
Sungei Ujong... nae ee OO
Johol eas ay einen OO)
Jempol vee aes sae 2 O00
Jelebu Ne oe ea 2,000
Sri Menanti ... Fa ee S000
Pahang aa: $5 ae B4O000
Johore — oes fol: 8 O00
Kedah & Ligor ase a, 00,000
Kelantan ia ee we 90-000
Trengganu... in en 30) 000
Kemamam can rites nee 1,000
Patani ati oa. see, OOOO
Aborigines ye mis ae 9,000
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An Expedition to Mount Batu Lawi.
By J. C. Mouton, F.1.s., ETc., CURATOR OF THE
SARAWAK MusEUM,
PREFATORY.
Far, far away up the Limbang River, more than a month’s
journey from the mouth, there exists a wonderful unknown country,
consisting (so rumour has it) of one vast plain high above the
sea-level.and surrounded by great towering mountains whose white-
faced cliffs may be seen from many distant points. This enchanted
land is inhabited by a great and powerful race, who own allegiance
to none but their own appointed chief—the dread Rajah of the
Interior and Ruler of many thousands of fierce warriors; rumour
details further how these people have a wonderful system of irri-
gation by which they always live in plenty since they gain a second
crop of paddy during the year; how by means of natural salt-
springs they obtain salt—their chief necessity of life, and. so
become entirely self-supporting and have no need of intercourse
with the outside world; how further they make their own gun-
powder, and how they keep large herds of a curious kind of goat.
To this country, situated right in the centre of northern Borneo
—the source of all the great rivers of Sarawak, viz., the Trusan,
the Limbang, the Baram and the Rejang, whence rise also two great
rivers of Dutch Borneo, viz., the Batang Kayan and the Koti—
to this country, but few from the Limbang district. ever penetrate,
and, absit omen, whence fewer still return.
Thus the gist of the various native yarns to be gathered from
those living on and about the lower waters of the great Limbang
River, a branch of which runs through the ancient city of Brunei,
at one time, as we all know, the flourishing capital of Borneo.
Many of their tales centred on one particular mountain, Batu
Lawi by name, which was said to stand up smooth and straight like
the post of a house, towering to an enormous height, without
a vestige of vegetation on it, and with its glistening white cliffs
rising sheer, thereby presenting an unclimbable surface to any
fool-hardy explorer. “But surely,’ I protested “there must be
some small ridges or inequalities which would afford one a foot-
hold or hand-grip so that one could at least get up a little way?”
“Oh no,” they said, “and unless the Tuan can walk up the wall
of a house like a fly, he won’t be able to get up Batu Lawi!”
Added to which there were of course numerous stories relating to
the power of this wonderful mountain, how few people were. ever
allowed to get there, how those that did either met some dreadful
fate there or else died shortly after their return, while others went
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so far as to assert that even to point at the mountain with one’s
hand would incur its just worth, which the mountain would show
at once by causing heavy rain to fall.
Such stories, I suppose, so far from acting as a deterrent to
the majority of white men, would rather stimulate their curiosity,
so that should occasion offer, they would endeavour to learn more
of these curious rumours, of the extent of truth in them, of the
possibility of verifying them. Well, the present writer does not
claim to be an exception to the average and the result of hearing
these vague rumours was a careful hunt through available literature
for any more definite information on the subject, before taking a.
journey there himself. What little there was forthcoming is soon
told. :
HISTORICAL.
In 1858 Sir Spenser St. John at that time British Consul at
Brunei undertook a memorable journey up the Limbang River, of
which he gives a graphic account in his fascinating book, “ Life
in the Forests of the Far East.” Of this journey Posewitz, * who
made an exhaustive study of the journeys accomplished by travel-
lers in Borneo, writes that Sir Spenser St. John “was the first
European to follow the course of the River Limbang, and its
tributary, the river Madihit?, deep into the interior of the island
—namely, as far as the border mountains of Brunei.” St. John
left Brunei on August 25, 1858, and after fifteen days’ boat journey
reached the entrance of the Madihit River. Following this river
up for some way he struck eastwards across country and then leay-
ing Batu Lawi some 2 days’ journey to the south-east he turned
north again to the Adang villages, the main object of his expedi-
tion. After spending some time exploring this district he returned,
partly down the Limbang River, which in this part is extremely
dangerous on account of the rapids, and after many thrilling
experiences and severe privations, he eventually reached the Madihit
again on Oct. 16th, having made a 5 weeks’ circular tour of that
region. He reached Brunei again after an absence of 56 days.
As frequent references to this account are made in the following
pages for comparison with my own experiences, I need not give
further details of his expedition here, beyond mentioning that he
left a careful map—the only reliable one of this region—which I
found most useful and accurate, besides being a continual source
of wonder to my native followers, who could never understand how
that. curious piece of paper could give me the wonderful knowledge
of the lay of the land which I appeared to possess !
_ 1. Borneo: its Geology and Mineral Resources, by Dr. Theodore Posewits,
translated from the German by Frederick H. Hatch. 1892. p. 58.
2. Should be the River Madihit.
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After Sir Spenser St. John’s visit there appear to have been no
further lengthy excursions by Europeans up the Limbang River
until the occupation of that district by the Sarawak Government.
This took place in 1890 and in the Sarawak Gazette for November
1895 (p. 207), there is a brief account of Mr. O. F. Ricketts’ * first
visit to the Kuala Madihit and Adang country. He left Limbang
station on August 24th, and arrived at Kuala Adang on September
4th, the last three days of the journey having been accomplished
on foot. After staying for three days at a native house some little
distance up the Adang River, he returned again down the Limbang
River, arrived at the Government station on September 10th, after
an absence of just three weeks. He remarks on the peaceable
nature of the Adangs, but gives little further information about
them or their district.
Mr. W. F. de V. Skrine, Assistant Resident at Limbang, made
an exactly similar trip to this village in March 1911, being away
25 days.
The Limbang Reports which appear regularly in the Sarawak
Gazette mention no other visits to the Adang country; mention
however is made of Mr. Ward, then Assistant Resident at Limbang,
visiting the natives in the Madihit River in 1907. He was away
just 3 weeks. ‘Thus it will be seen that during the last 20 years:
only three Europeans have succeeded in reaching the Kuala
Madihit, which is itself the real starting place for the more arduous.
journeys into the interior. It should be noted however that on
several occasions would-be visitors to this region have had to turn
back on account of the river suddenly rising and becoming impass-
able for weeks at a time. It is only during certain months of the
year that this up-river journey can be made, and even then, unless
one has limitless time and patience it can only be accomplished with
the assistance of a good deal of luck; if the down-coming torrent
of water is too swift, the boats cannot get up against it; and as
sometimes happens, if the river is too dry the task of dragging the
boats up the rapids becomes stupendous and the traveller’s progress
painfully slow.
Two other routes to this elevated region present themselves to
the Sarawak traveller; one up the Trusan River, which flows out
into Brunei Bay a few miles east of the Limbang River; the head-
waters of this river run very near the Adang stream (an upper
branch of the Limbang River), but with this river too the same
difficulties are present, although I am informed by natives that one
has a better chance of getting up it in the right season than up
the Limbang River. The other route is up the Baram and Tutau
rivers, which would lead one up to the western side of the plain.
_ Two long trips have been made up the Trusan River, the first
in 1889 by M. O. F. Ricketts accompanied by Dr. G. D. Haviland
(afterwards Curator of the Sarawak Museum). An extract from
1. Resident of Trusan 1885-1890, of Limbang 1890-1909.
R. A. Soc., No. 63, 1912.
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their official diary is given in the Sarawak Gazette (1889. p. 78)
from which we learn that the expedition started from Trusan Fort
on March 25th, 1888, reached the Bah country in ten days and
returned again by April 17th, after an absence of 24 days. The
elevation of the valley (of the Bah Country) is given as “ 3,500 ft.
‘and the whole of it is highly cultivated and_ systematically
irrigated ; ” and again, “ At the head of the Bah valley is the range
of hills from which springs the Trusan, which at their foot is but
‘a small trickling stream about two feet wide. This was the
farthest point reached.”
No mention is made of Batu Lawi, which, if seen, would
surely have occasioned remark.
A second expedition was made up the ‘Trusan to this part as
far as the Kelalan stream in 1910 by Mr. J. Stansfield,* who was
prospecting for the Government. He was away 28 days and told
me he saw no signs of Batu Lawi.
The third route,—via the Baram and Tutau—is the easiest,
as far as the river journey is concerned; and the longest and most
extensive journey, after that of St. John, has been accomplished
from this side by Mr. R. 8. Douglas, who reached the Bah plain,
south of the Limbang and Trusan head-waters in 1908. He left
Claudetown (the Government station on the Baram River) on
October 25th and did not return till December 19th. He des-
cribes his journey briefly in the Sarawak Gazette (1909, p. 29) and
at greater length in the Sarawak Museum Journal (1912, Vol. I,
No. 2, pp. 17-29). From these it appears that he spent some time
on the southern portion of the plain, but did not penetrate to its
eastern or northern boundaries. The details of his sketch-map and
of mine, which accompanies this paper, are necessarily imperfect,
and there are certain differences which we are unable to reconcile
at present ; however, it is proposed to undertake a joint expedition
in the near future to this region, when we hope these points will
be cleared up satisfactorily.
In order to complete our historical account I have quoted below
all the passages I can find in which mention is made of Batu Lawi.*
*Vide Sarawak Gazette, 1910, p68,
*Sir Spenser St. John. Lifein the Forests of the Far East,2nd Kd. 1863,
Vol. II, p. 25. ‘‘ One of the greatest curiosities, the natives say, is the for-
mation of two mountains, which rise from a plain in lofty peaks of the
shape of needles; they have nev r been to them, but have seen them from a dis-
tance; they are the pillars of the gate of some enchanted palace, and I heard it
whispered to one of my men that all were not privileged to see even these pill-
ars, as it requires some incantation; so that there is a chance of the needle
mountains vanishing into thin air’’. (Almost certainly a reference to the
double peak of Batu Lawi). J.C.M.
Ibid. p. 87. ‘‘An hour’s walk brought us to the Upper Limbang, whose bed
is here, perhaps, seventy yards wide, very shallow, not reaching to the hip. It
flows from the Silingid mountains, and is said,after skirting their western face,
to turn to the south-east to its sourcesin Lawi’’. (The Limbang River passes
Batu Lawi and is said to rise in Mt. Murud). J.C.M.
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Ibid. p. 109 ‘‘and I may yet get alookat Lawi. I haveconstantly borne in
mind the whisper I overheard, that only certain privileged individuals are allow-
ed to get a sight of this famous hill.”’
Ibid. pp, 117, 118. ‘* About 11 p.m. started in a south-west direction for
about a mile anda half, to the top of a hill, from whence there is usually a
view of Lawi, in a south-west directicn ; all the mountains, however, are hidden
in clouds, but it must bea high one if remarkable among its towering neighbours.
The whole appearance of the country is mountainous, each range becoming more
lofty as we approach the hidden interior. From the elevation of about 4, 348 feet.
the two mountains next us looked very high, perhaps between 7, 000 and 8, OVO
feet : they say these are the children, Lawi the father.’’
Were the people not so busy with their farms, and I so pressed for time,
I would try and reach Lawi, as there are people residing at its foot ; but I must
put it off till next expedition, when I hope to pass the mountain.’
Ibid. p. 121. Again Lawi was so covered with clouds that nothing but ts
base could be seen ; 1t appeared about fifteen miles off in aS. W. direction. [
hear that the Limbang rises in that mountain. There are villages at its base,
two of which were lately attacked by the Kayans and destroyed.
A. R. Wallace. Australasia, 4th Hd. 1884, p. 348. ‘‘Further north how-
ever, to the south-east of Brunei, are many mountains believed to Le from 7000
to 8000-feet, and one, Lawi, said to be muchh igher, and to form the culminating
point of this district ’’.
Ibid. p. 349. ‘‘The latter river (the Limbang) was explored by Mr Sr. John
in 1858 nearly to its sources in mountains between 5000 and 6000 feet high, and
about 10 miles north of the lofty Lawi mountain, which he was unable to reach’’,
R. 5. Douglas. Sarawak Gazette. 1909. p. 29. ‘‘Wenext proceeded up the
Kab +n river as far as the Merang river and after camping here for the night, we
pushed on until we reached the foot of the Pamabo Range, which we cl:mbed
and crossed at Pong Pawan some 5,000 feet high. The view from the summit
was quite indescribale in its beauty. On the west side we overlooked the Tutau
river as far away as Mount Mulu, and away northwards, across the Limbang
River to .‘atu Lawi. On the east side the view was finer still, as it overlooked
the whole of that much talked of central plain, which comprises the Bah and
Mein coun ry, and is bounded by the ranges of Pamabo, Murud and Apo Rawat
on three sides and Baram river on the South-Hast’’.
W. R. T. Clement. Sarawak Museum Journal, 1911, Vol. I, pp. 1384, 185.
A Murut legend describing the “ spiritual origin of Batu Lawi. After su dry
vicissitides including a difference of opinion with another mountain, the story
ends thus:—‘“‘And Batu Bunga, now a broken tumbled mass, ‘resides in the
Falutut country, while Batu Law is still to be seen and admired near the
sources of the Limbang River.
“There, for ever untrodden by the foot of man,
‘* A lasting monument of ages to stand,’’
A.B. W. in Sarawak Gazette, 1911, p. 70: Quoting one words of an old
Kalabit warr or, ‘‘At the end of ten days we reached the foot of theBatu Laweh,
a rock, Tuan, that stands alone and reaches to the sky. One day’s march it
takes to round its base and no man has ever dared to scale its sheer white face.
‘“ There we made a halt. Two of our men were ill of the fever ; they died,
and we buried them at the foot of the rock in the sandy flat where the badalt
(rhinoceros) love to play. Here also we took the oath again for hearts were
eon faint ’’.
.C. Moulton. Sarawak Gazette, 1911, pp. 148-151. A preliminary account
and Se udoaved report on this expedition.
R. A. Soc., No. 63 1912.
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NARRATIVE.
May 2nd, 1911. Embarking in Kuching, the capital of Sara-
wak, on the 8. S. “ Gladys,” one of the company’s coasting-steamers,
and somehow getting Dayak collectors, boy and stacks of baggage
on board just in time, we left the wharf punctually at 7 a.m. and,
steaming down river, reached the sea a little before 10 am. In-
quired anxiously of the Dayaks as to the nature of last night’s all-
important dreams and was relieved to hear that they were all right,
no bad ones. A Dayak always pays great attention to any dream
that he has on the night before starting on any expedition, regard-
ing such as a guarantee for the success or failure of his mission.
When on their own, if the dreams are bad nothing will induce them
to start, but when following the un-believing European they allow
their fore-bodings to take second place, and when disaster comes,
content themselves with a reproving “I told you so.” In March
1910 I set out from Kuching with the intention of doing this same
expedition, but bad dreams” pursued our party for the first three
days and the expedition ended of course in dismal failure and ill-
ness.
May 3rd. 'The sea pleasantly calm all yesterday and we anchor
off Kedurong point at 10.30 this morning to drop mails and a few
passengers; arrive midnight at Miri, where the Anglo-Saxon Oil
company have just opened a new oil-field.
May 5th. Reach Broeoketon early in the morning and aiter
a few hours there steam across Brunei Bay and into the mouth of
the Limbang River, which, considering the length of the river, is
remarkably narrow, and, like practically all Sarawak rivers, has a
dificult bar which can only be negotiated by steamers of shallow
draught and even then at not less than half-tide. However, we are
over the bar and for good or bad we are started on our long river
journey which is to take us a hard monih’s traveiling through
strange countries and among strange peoples before reaching the
upper waters of this river and even then to fall far short of its
actual sources, unknown to white men and but vaguely determined
by the natives sparsely scattered along its banks. We arrive at the
Government station of Limbang (or Pangkalan Térap, as it is
known by the natives) at midday and disembark, the preliminary
stage of the journey done. Heavy rain all night, registering 3.92
inches next morning. This looks bad for a start, as, if anything
like that amount fell up-river, it will mean a heavy fresh and make
progress against it very slow or perhaps impossible for a day or two.
May 6th. Mr. Ermen, the Acting Resident of the station,
kindly makes the necessary arrangements for boats, coolies, food,
_ ete., and informs me that he has called twelve Sea- Dayaks from the
Pandaruan River to assist me in the up-river journey. These and
their friends came up to the bungalow in the evening and try to
persuade us to let them all go. They refuse to believe in the
peaceful nature of my mission and being firmly convinced that it
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is really an expedition undertaken against the tribes on the border,
against whom they have (or pretend they have) old scores to pay
off, they are immensely keen to accompany me. However as I
know the Muruts further up-river and have arranged with them
to take me through the more difficult part of the journey, we stick
to our original twelve. The bazaar is full of these Dayaks who
have come down to meet the Rajah and ask his permission to go on
the war-path against these people in the interior, a request which
was of course refused when the Rajah arrived on his annual visit
a day or two afterwards.
May 7th. Leave Limbang on the Government steamer “ Alice
Lorraine” at 9 a.m. having got rid of superfluous Dayaks who had
boarded the steamer in the hopes of being allowed te come at the
last moment. ‘Two were allowed to come in place of two others
who asked to be let off, one on account of bad dreams and the other
for domestic reasons. The steamer towing our up-river boats soon
passed the first corner and cut short our last view of Europeans
and civilization. Winding through low-lying country, first past
untidy but picturesque Brunei-Malay houses scattered along the
banks half-hidden among large banana plantations, and among
them Kadayan houses intermingled, then further up river the.
Malays give place to the neat Bisaya houses with buffalo herds
grazing near by, presenting such a peaceful scene that it is difficult
to imagine all this country in the throes of continual strife under
Brunei oppression only 20 years ago. Crocodiles abound in this
river and I had a shot or two from the steamer at them, but without
visible effect. ‘This is the common species C. porosus; the Gavial
(Tomistoma schlegeli)—common enough in the Sadong River,
Sarawak—does not I believe occur there though it has been recorded
in the neighbouring rivers of 'Trusan and Lawas. We arrive at
Bidang at 1 p.m. and take all the baggage up to an empty house
on the hank, where we arrange to pass the night. The steamer has
to return as there are rocks in the river just above this and she
cannot venture further. Went out with a gun in the evening and
secured a pigeon (punei) and a love-bird (tiong) ; on returning in
the boat we were startled by the firing of a small cannon twice quite
near us; this came from a Bisaya house and we learned that an old
lady of high rank had died that day. The head of the house asked
me up and IJ found a few men sitting and beating gongs round the
eorpse,—already swathed in burial clothes. There were no appa-
rent signs of grief among the inmates of the house and I gathered
that the deceased was very old, or, as the natives put it, “her years
Werte enough” (omor chukup). The heavy rain of two days ago ©
could only have been local as the river is not high.
: May Sth. Left Bidang at 6.45 this, morning,in the boats
manned by Bisayas., They seem to be very distinct from other
tribes of this region and, according to some I asked, are closely
related to the Tutongs of the Brunei—Baram district. Certain
authors have stated that they. come from the Philippines, but I
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could get no information on this point from the few older men I
met: he late Dr. A. B. Meyer wrote to me that he had been able
to notice a similarity between-the vocabularies of the Bornean tribes
Bisayas and Tagals with those of the Philippine tribes, Visayas and
Tagalogs. ‘The Bisayas are regarded with a good deal of awe by
the up-river natives, and sinister stories are told of mysterious deaths
of visitors to their houses, and of their great riches acquired by ques-
tionable means. They used to live in long houses like other natives
of Sarawak, but now that their country is peaceful they are begin-
ning to live separately, two or three families together, although
there are still some Jong houses to be seen. ‘Their houses are much
better built than those of the Muruts, and a Bisaya remarked that
the Muruts were “ like birds ” (saperti burong) hecause their houses
would only last a year and then they had to move on and build
another. |
After 4 hours paddling we arrive at Empasong and enter the
large Bisaya house there. Found a Malay in it detained by a bad
leg. He had been with a Mr. Walker* as collector on the Kina-
batangan in North Borneo and I should have been glad to take him
along ; as we were in need of another experienced collector, however,
his injured leg almost prevented him from walking at all, so we
went on again without him, and arrived at Ukong- a little before
3 p.m. Here we found some Chinese shops on the ‘left bank of the,
river and in one of them we made ourselves comfortable for the
night. No Chinese traders are allowed any further up than this
point and consequently the little settlement here does a thriving
trade with the neighbouring Bisayas and 'Tabuns.
We are warned against throwing stones into the river, as that
s certain to bring rain, which is equally certain to cause a dreaded
« fresh ” in the river. A Dayak complains to me of bad dreams.
and wishes to turn back, but I persuade him to try another three
nights; if these bad dreams persist, then he may report to me
again. From Ukong we get a good view of Mt. Buda, which is
the name given to the northern spur of Mt. Molu, and the source
of the Madalam river. Owing to a leaky boat some of the rice got
wet and we had to leave three men behind to dry it for a day, while
we went on next morning to arrange for further coolies.
Several rumours were current here about the ravages said to
have been committed by a -party of Dayaks two months before
among the Adangs up-river, and opinions were divided as to how
the aggrieved Adangs were ‘likely to receive us. Some suggested
sending up messengers to explain the peaceful nature of our
mission, but the uncertain state of the river was the only argument
that weighed with me and I determined to get to the Kuala
Madihit without any unnecessary°delay ; once there we should know
more about the truth of these rumours and could act accordingly.
* Author of ‘‘ Wanderings among South Sea Savages,’’ 1909.
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While on the subject of hostile natives it may be as well to
explain here the attitude which the different tribes up-river were
expected to adopt towards us, and of course this subject had to be
carefully considered throughout the journey. After the- lower
reaches of the Limbang has “been passed, the population dimrnishés
and houses become less. frequent until one reaches the mouth of the
Madalam River, where there are a few ae houses, followed by
~a blank stretch of rapids, which occupied us 4 days in passing; at
the end of this stretch the river branches sharply off to the Hast
and becomes impassable for boats; this part is occupied by Kalabits
who had recently lost their chief and were now under the leadership
of his son, quite a young man. According to rumour these people
were not likely to be over friendly, as they had suffered recently
at the hands of Dayaks, but beyond a cool welcome nothing was
feared from them. From their place (Kuala Madihit) two routes
to Batu Lawi were available, one due Kast to the aggrieved Adangs
and thence south to Batu Lawi, the other to follow the Madihit t6
its sources and thence due Fast to the mountain. he disadvan-
tages of the latter route was the difficulty of getting coolies in this
sparsely populated district, but eventually this outweighed the
serious objection offered by the other route, namely, the unfriendly
reception expected from the Adangs. Kast of Batu Lawi lived the
Pa Bawans who had but recently submitted to the Government. but
had not yet paid tax; south of them, and south-east of Batu Law
the country was occupied by the powerful Pa Brian tribe who were
avowedly hostile to the Government and to any tribes living under
the Sarawak flag.t. This was the substance of the information
to be obtained from the natives on the way up the river, and as the
journey advanced we found that the account was accurate in thé
main.
May 9th: (Temp. 6 a.m. 74.5°). Leaving Ukong at 7 a.m., five
hours’ paddling brings us to the mouth of a little stream called the
Seradan and we pull up on a high sand-bank just opposite. Above
this is a small Tabun house occupied by Tama Belulok, the chief of
the Tabuns of this district and one of the most influential natives
on the upper part of the river. His son (Belulok) had been with
1. Evidence of the warlike nature of these Pa Brian people is shown in the
report for August 1911 by the Resident in charge of Trusan. He writes
(Sarawak Gazette 1911, p. 198):— ‘‘The Bah Muruts reported that the Muruts
of Pa Brian came down on them -while they were at work in their clearings and
shot at th m, killing three men. This occurred in June and was only reported
on my arriv+l in the Trusan. Later,on, on the 24th, a number of Bah Muruts!
including the chiefs Dawat Sigar, Gaieng Abai and Sakai Libat, with a, 1: me
following came to Trusan and reported that two more of their number had*
shot by Pa Brian people in the sane way and their heads taken. They ead
make no resistance as they were outnumbered by two to one. The Bahs say
they have done nothing to justify such attacks and that the Pa Brians area
terror to the Upper Trusan.’’
This must have been going on within a short distance of Batu Lawi, possi-
bly only a few days after we left the mountain.
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me before and this time I intended taking both father and son to
see me through the journey. According to them the ‘Tabuns come
of a Treng stock and they used to occupy the country at the head
waters of the Tutau and Madihit but a series of disastrous wars
and diseases of various kinds sadly reduced their numbers, so that
but very few representatives of this once powerful race now remain.
The Tabuns occupy about three houses on the Limbang Iiver and
perhaps numbered in all some 100 souls; they are nearly related to
the Muruts and Kalabits and speak both these languages easily,
though the Tabun dialect itself is distinct. Closely related to the
Tabuns, and in fact from the same Treng stock, are the Long
Patas who live in a long house on the Tutau River under Oyau
Blawing (or Tama Saging, the father of Saging, as he is now
-known).? These two branches now form the sole survivors in
Sarawak territory of the once populous Trengs.
Soon after we landed below the Beluloks’ house, a long boat
swept round the corner and drew up beside ours, and we were soon
busy shaking hands with some oJd friends from up-river whom we
met last year. These were some 20 ’abuns and Dayaks from the
Kuala Madalam on their way down river to pay their respects to
the Rajah at Limbang. However I had to explain to them that
His Highness had arrived at Limbang and left again already, so
they turned back, while we stayed to make arrangements for coolies.
In the afternoon three of us paddled a little way up the Seradan
to look for a Dayak who, we were told, was working gutta there ;
I had arranged with him last year to accompany me in my next
expedition. We eventually found his “lancho” or hut by the side
of the stream, a few fowls outside and some lumps of rubber, and
the barking of dogs told us he was not far off. Eventually we
began to realize that there was some meaning to the continued
barking and we were startled at hearing some animal rush through
the jungle quite close; we tore off after it in the direction of the
sound of cracking branches and then lost the “scent,” but another
_Dayak joined us almost immediately and said he had just caught
sight of a pig swimming the river with the dogs in close pursuit; but
they eventually lost it, although later in the evening our Dayak
friend and his trusty dogs succeeded in bagging a “rusa” (deer).
The scenery up the little Seradan stream was typical, to my mind,
of the best kind to be seen in Sarawak. Where a view over any
large extent of country only consists of one unbroken panorama of
uniform dull coloured jungle, one has to fall back upon small
patches:of country for the most pleasing scenic effects, and these
are par excellence to be found up such jungle-shaded streams as
this; dense unfathomable jungle, suggesting an infinity of forest,
wall: one in on each side, huge trees towering above with branches
1.;.. For an- cinteresting account of the custom of changing names among
these tribes see ‘A comparative Vocabulary of the Kayan, Kenyah & Kalabit
languages-’’ by: R.S.Douglas in the Sarawak Museum Journal No. I, 1911, p.
Once
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thrown across and interlacing foliage; through this filters the strong
tropical sun, lighting up a glistening patch here and there in the
winding stream beneath. Along this stream, as we enter, an
occasional crocodile (three I counted) splashes clumsily into the
water from off the muddy bank where he has been lying in wait
for a chance meal; a little further on a “ biawak ” (Monitor lizard)
walks stealthily up the bank hoping to escape notice. The stream
becomes too small for our boat and we get out and walk over the
rough stony bed; just at the bend ahead of us a pheasant (an Argus
by the length of its tail) flutters across the stream and disappears
up the opposite bank; I am too occupied with slippery boulders to
get my gun up in time. Overhead we caught a glimpse of two or
three “tajak” (Solid-casqued Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil), usually
out of range and jeering at us with their curious mocking cries.
The lovely velvety black and green brookeanus ( 6 ) butterfly dances
by at a good pace and soon after we see another beautiful green
Papilio, known locally as the “ Sarawak Beauty” (Papilio arjuna
carnatus); a frail black-spotted flestia floats lazily by out of
reach of the net, and then ensues an exciting chase after the rich
green dragonfly Neurobasis chinensis, which, in Sarawak, is only
found in the upper reaches of rivers. On returning to Belulok’s
house we find the same species of tiger-beetle (Cicindela funerea)
swarming on the sand-bank at the water’s edge, which I found in
the same. place last year; curiously enough I never could find it on
any other similar locality above or below this spot on the Limbang
River, nor indeed anywhere else in Sarawak. Last year another
Cicindela (C. crespignyi) was found abundantly on the same spot,
and in many places most of the way up the river, but on this
occasion it was entirely absent on that sand-bank and only sparsely
taken at different places further up.
Heavy rain for the rest of that day, but apparently only local
as 1t did not prevent us continuing next morning.
May 10th: (Temp. at 9 a.m. 82°). Having arranged with
Tama Belulok to collect in some of his men and to follow with
Gesang, the Dayak, next day or if possible that afternoon, we leave
his house in the morning and soon come to our first rapids, in this
case “ wood-rapids,” 7.e. rapids formed by a mass of timber stuck
in the bed of the river and sufficient to partially choke the stream.
Going is rather slow against the strong stream, and it takes us till
2 p.m. to arrive at the kuala Madalam. Our friends of yesterday
meet us here and we are taken up into Tama Seluling’s house to
spend the night. ‘Tama Seluling himself is a very short ugly little
Tabun, who seemed to spend most of his time nursing his little son
or else out with a “jala” (casting net) after fish. ‘The first’ time
_I went there (last year), he insisted on giving up his bed: for my
use, and I did’nt like to refuse to use it, although the nights spent
thereon were not all pleasure! The river divides here, one branch
really the main Limbang River, goes off to the South-East, the other
is called the Madalam River and rises in Mount Molu. .On my
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arrival here last year, the Limbang was in heavy flood and as it
seemed hopeless trying to paddle up against it for some days, I
took the opportunity of an excursion up the Madalam to its source.
Jt took us the best part of 4 days to get there* and just 12 hours for
the return journey. ‘The route has been traversed often enough by
Europeans and natives, as it is one of the recognised routes between
the Limbang and Baram districts. Sir Spenser St. John gave a
good account of it 50 years ago, describing how the Madalam dis-
appears under a great rock (the Batu Tarikan) and how the Kayans
had dug’a ditch round this rock to get their boats through to join
the stream where it emerges again the other side; this ditch is still
used to-day, though not by armies of head-hunting Kayans so much
as by parties‘of gutta-hunting natives of various tribes. We found
a small party of seven Dayaks encamped there, on their way to the
coast after six months’ gutta-hunting. They said they had about
4 pikuls (gutta rian) for which they expected to get $120 per pikul
from the ‘Chinese at the Baram bazaar, the latest price in Kuching
being about $300; this last I told them, but they seemed to look
upon it as a recognized thing for the Chinaman to gather in some-
what more than a moderate profit, and indeed they seemed well
satisfied with their prospecitve gain of some $70 each. ‘They had
been delayed there some 3 or 4 days doing nothing because their
“angei” or omens, had been bad; they had heard the ery of an
evil bird each morning and that had prevented them walking some
3 hours to the next stream where their boats awaited them. How-
ever they got over the difficulty while I was there by getting up
before daylight and slipping otf by torchlight before that wretched
bird of ill-omen had time to wake up and utter his warning cry.
A little way above the Batu Tarikan, (the rock mentioned be-
fore) the stream enters a high limestone cliff and disappears al-
together into the bowels of Mt. Molu; a wide archway, but very
low, only 4 ft. above the water’s edge at the highest point, lets one
into a spacious hall; four of us paddled in, leaving one man outside
with a cut stick and a whistle, so that he could let us know if the
water was rising. According to the natives the water has a way of
rising very suddenly for no apparent cause, and for that reason
most natives are afraid of going in there; however one must not
believe them too implicitly, as in Sarawak, at any rate, they are
usually most accommodating to the European traveller; if they see
‘he wants to do something never done by white men before, they are’
‘quite ready to tell you the story of one who never dared to do this
“before, and at the same time keep quiet about the hundred and one
‘who have done it. Once inside this kind of hall or ante-reom a small
“dark door-way barely five foot square shows. us the only way into
“mysteries of the interior; through this we push our boat, shoving
“against the slimy walls of the cavern with our hands. ‘This soon
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*Sir Spenser §t. John did the trip twice, taking 8 days on the first occasion
from Brunei and 5 days on the second from the Kuala Madalam.
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widens and the roof stretches high up over our heads; we follow a
winding passage to the left for perhaps a quarter of a mile and then
ground on a sand-bank and have to wander on foot round fantastic
limestone rocks under huge stalactites hanging from lofty chambers,
then squeeze through another passage and out again into another
huge chamber, having lost the source of the stream under one of the
walls. We find one of these passages leads out on to the upper
surface of the cliff, thus affording an escape if the water did happen
to rise and cut off our egress below. A few edible nests of the Swift
(Collocalia lowi) were found, but little else besides the usual legion
of bats. In all we spent an interesting hour and a quarter under
the mountain,n—“ where no white men and but few natives had
ever ventured before!”
I have digressed on to my trip of last year, but as the present
expedition is merely a second attempt at the objective of the first,
IT must make that my excuse for mentioning one or two incidents
of the first attempt.
May 11th: (Temp. 7 a.m. 73°). Just at the kuala Madalam
there is a ‘Tabun graveyard in the jungle by the side of the river.
I landed one morning to inspect it and found the decapitated
trunks of three large trees, about fifteen feet high. A space had
been cut out of the top so as to hold a large jar in which the bones
of the dead were deposited. One of these jars was blue and white,
the other two the usual brown earthenware, but according to the
Dayaks with me, none were of much value. At the foot of one of
these pillars was an ordinary wooden coffin supported on two forked
posts some four or five feet from the ground. This contained the
remains of a Tabun who had died some six months ago and near
it was another coffin of which the lid had rotted away exposing
some decomposing remains. On the hill above were some Dayak
graves characterised by the neatly carved “sarcophagus” of wood.
marking the spot.
From Tama Seluling’s house we could see three peaks to the
south of us, which were pointed out as Mt. Molu to the west, Mt.
Buda (the source of the Madalam) in the centre, double peaked,
and Mt. Obong to the east.
Tama Belulok and some:Tabuns turned up this afternoon but
unaccompanied by Gesang who had excused himself (and his three
companions) on account of a bad dream. Our Dayaks left behind at
Ukong to dry the rice have also joined us, and other men are hard
at work preparing a boat to replace a leaky one we had brought
from Limbang, so we have every hope of getting on tomorrow
morning. I shall be glad to do so as the kuala Madalam has un-
pleasant memories for me, of s tedious wait of 4 days for the river
to go down, of a mosquito-bitten hour in a tree waiting for some
deer to come and be shot, of the subsequent chase after a wounded
one in pitch dark swamp and jungle “assisted” by the light of a
few matches, and not least, of a delicious breakfast off the roe of
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some freshly killed fish, followed by the most painful seizure of
vomitting, such as I never wish to experience again.
Tama Belulok apologizes for Gesang’s non-appearance and
remarks somewhat scornfully that he does’nt believe in dreams and
then immediately after announces cheerily that the omens were
excellent this morning, and there is no doubt that we shall get to
Batu Lawi all right. 1 went after pigeon in the evening in some
secondary growth not far from the house, but could only bag two
small “kukor” (doves, Spilopelia tigrina, Temm.). In the evening
get some amusement out of a few parlour-tricks and trials of
strength; one “event” consisted of laying a pole end on against
the dividing wall of a house, then standing 2 feet away from the
end, they pick the end up, place it on the shoulder and try to drag it
away from the wall. They did it generally after a little struggle
and tried from a distance of three feet but that proved too difficult.
I initiated them into the mysteries of “ Indian wrestling ” which
(as far as I know it) consisted in the two combatants lying down
along-side one another, the head of one by the feet of the other,
then with arms locked, each has to raise the leg nearest his adversary
and with a skilful lock and adjustment of his weight, try to over-
throw the other. ‘They took to it kindly and a succession of con-.
tests helped to pass a pleasant evening, enlivened with a little gin,
beating of gongs and Dayak dancing.
May 12th: (Temp. 8 a.m. 77°). The river still all right, our
crews out early this morning getting the baggage stored in the boats.
After some delay we start, 15 in cne boat and 13 in the other; two
birds “ engkrasak ” (Spider-hunters, Archnothera, sp.) fly across
our bows from right to left; these are regarded as a very good omen
and are hastily greeted by each Tabun with some such phrase as
this, shouted out in a great hurry so that it may reach the birds
before they are out of ear-shot :—
“Kabing kong ai meching yang Batu Lawi. Naam aid,”
which meant, as far as I could gather—“ O birds, see us safe to
Batu Lawi, and let no sickness befall us.”
We saw or heard other birds of good omen and everyone was in
great spirits, paddling along with light hearts and (more impor-
tant) with vigorous arms. What J read as good omens were :—
(i) the appearance of the well-known leaf butterfly (Kallima
machis buxtonr), which I saw alight on the trunk of a tree*; it is
not uncommon in the Limbang district but rarely met with in other
parts of Sarawak; (ii) the rare brown Papilio, P. payeni brunei,
which flew over our heads soon after starting, and (iii) the capture
of a fine male Amblypodia narada feeding on animal excrement
*Vide Wallace’s ’’Malay Archipelago,‘‘ where he records the leaf butter.
fly always settling on twigs. I have only once seen the species alight on a twig.
but three times on the trunks of large trees. C.J.Brooks in Journ. Str. Br-
Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 60,1911. p. 42, makes a similar observation having captur-
ed one on the trunk of a tree and another on a leaf.
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on a sunny gravel bed in mid-stream ; this is also a rare species in
Sarawak. A little before mid-day we arrived at a long Murut
house, where we stopped for a meal. ‘he head of the house, one
Klowat, wanted us to stay the night, as they were celebrating the
marriage of one of the ladies of the house with a Dayak. Such
marriages are by no means infrequent; a party of wandering Sea-
Dayaks go off for several months after gutta and very often finding
desirable maidens, two or three of them marry and settle down in
their adopted country. Our boats’ crew were all in favour of the
project and tried hard to persuade me to accept Klowats’s invit-
ation, this was the last house we should see before reaching the
kuala Madihit, at least some three or four days’ journey ahead of us,
so the occasion for a convivial evening seemed too tempting to be
missed. However I was determined to take every advantage of
the present low state of the river and push on as far as possible,
knowing from bitter experience last year the difficulties caused by
the least fresh; so after an hour’s patient- and good-tempered
argument we started off again, our crew further increased by two
more Muruts from this house.
This was the third house we had stopped at on the way since
leaving Ukong, and each of these three houses had been built since
my visit to them last year. In 1910 ‘Tama Belulok’s house was a
small tumble-down little shanty ill-becoming an important chief,
and he was then meditating building a decent house; this year
I found him in the same kind of house built a few yards from the
site of that of last year, and again he was talking of building one
of larger size and more lasting material. Tama Seluling’s house
had also been rebuilt within a few yards of last year’s but his new
one was a decided improvement on the old one and should perhaps
last three years. Klowat’s house had also been rebuilt, but this
time a little further up the river. Last year I spent four days in his
old house waiting for the river to go down, and consequently got te
know something about that class of house. Like all native houses
in Sarawak it was raised on wooden piles some eight feet off the
ground on the high bank of the river, but out of reach of all but
the biggest floods. A notched trunk led up from the water’s edge
over the slippery bank and another leaning against the end of the
house gave access on to a rough platform. The house was divided
down the middle by a wooden partition, which shut off the living
rooms of each family on the left, leaving the whole of the right
side open as one long common room. ‘The leaf attap roof, highest
along this centre line slopes down to within some 4 feet of the floor
on each side, the space thus left was filled in with rough boards or
in some ‘places simply with split bamhoo, leaving a long slit of
perhaps a foot in width, running the length of the house through
which one could look out. In the common verandah every-body
used to gather, only dispersing into the living rooms for meals and
at night to sleep; though visitors always sleep (and sometimes have
their meals) in this verandah. Unlike Sea-Dayak houses thére®
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was no outer platform running the length of the house for drying
paddy, as the Muruts dry theirs on the farms, but only the small
one at the end, which appeared to serve no particular purpose. ‘The
side devoted to the livi ing rooms was Sone off unequally into
five compartments, one for each family; each compartment being
provided with a door and a fireplace; the dividing partitions were
for the most part low and by standing up one could see pretty well
frem one end of the house to the other. The accompanying
diagram gives an idea of the “ ground-floor ” plan.
As a distinguished visitor I was acconmmodated during those
four days with a corner in one of these rooms, the other occupants
being three middle-aged Muruts laides, very dirty and ugly and two
small children. ‘The woman appeared to possess but one garment
each, which they never changed during the whole time I was there.
My diary of April 4th, 1910, has the following note recorded in that
P house :— P
Stel 3 Ul db7 =e - E
Pp (Murut)
i, ii, ili, living rooms (terkap.)
(1)—(5), fire-places for cooking (tal) fittel with wooden rack (dran) for
drying fire-wood.
6,7, 8, fire-places.
M, door (tingga) into living-room from common verandah.
N—N,_ dividing wall of boards, bark or split rotan, (pip2).
8,T,V; Common room (sikang).
X,Y Z, Common passage, a step lower than the common raom (S.T7.V.),
(naduran)
A, dividing partition (swman’ between living rooms, about 4ft high, of
split rotan or bark.
R, mletiorns outside.
Q, steps (tchan) from platform to ground, about 8ft.
P, main posts supporting floor and roof {dir7).
The ‘‘attic’’ formed by a few boards laid across the beams under the roof is
called parong (Dayak sadau) ; The roof is called buitok; the floor, seloi; leaf
attaps for roof, apor ; beam supporting the rafters, piian ; tie-beam supporting
the floor, barat ; rest for cooking-pot, wngan ; cooking: pot, badong ; mat, ugum.
Height of floor of house above grounl, 8ft., of side walls to lo west p: art of
roof, 4aft., ‘of middle partition to top of roof ridge 8ft.
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“The Murut ladies of the house give an exhibition of feeding ;
a more disgusting sight can hardly be imagined (especially
when one is eating in the same room) than to see these three seated
on the floor stuffing handfuls of rice into their mouths and then
stoking it in with their fingers........ I was delighted to see an
instance of a human being searching for bugs, etc., in the hair of
another; this being performed by a little boy who thus amused
himself with his mother’s hair while she lay on the floor playing
with her baby.” The eating of the “captures” I saw later on.
In spite of the somewhat low social status of these Muruts, they
were very pleasant and friendly, always courteous and respectful,
without any of that unpleasant cringing manner so typical of many
Malays. ‘The men always showed great interest in our guns and
with one I exchanged an empty brass cartridge-case for one of his
cartridge-cases; viz. a neatly carved little bamboo tube divided
into two compartments, one for powder and the other for shot, with —
a wooden plug at each end.
After leaving Klowat’s house we made good progress except
over the rapids where the men usually had to jump overboard and
pull the boats up. About three o’clock clouds began to gather
and we pulled up at the kuala Smarpit on the left bank and made
a lancho (shelter) for the night.
May 13th: (7.30 a.m. temp. 80°). A fine morning and the
river still just right. The Dayak who reported bad dreams before
and wanted to return for that reason, comes this morning with
woeful tidings; he dreamt he had lost al! his teeth. This is the 7
last straw, so I allow him to go home, which means a half day’s walk
for him through pathless jungle to Kiowat’s house and there await
for a chance boat to take him: down to Limbang. I learnt afterwards
that he always did the same thing, even when out with Dayaks:
alone; after a few days he would feel homesick, plead bad dreams '
and return! We leave soon after 7 a.m. and spend the whole
day poling and dragging the boats up the rapids. Pass the Sertab
rapid in safety; this has a bad reputation and is supposed to be
very dangerous when there is a lot of water in the river; in its
present condition however we have nothing to fear. Passing
through sandstone we come to a limestone patch and enter the long
wide reach that ends at the Kuala Saladong, late in the afternoon
in torrents of rain. We find remains of some recently used lanchos,
which are soon enlarged and made habitable with our kadjang
coverings, and a bottle of gin to the crews helps to keep the cold out.
Luckily the rain stops about 8 p.m. and the general opinion is that
it is only local rain, so that it should not seriously affect the state
of the river. I feel rather nervous about it, remembering a six
days sojourn in this very place last year waiting for the river to
subside, nor have I forgotten an attempt to advance against the
flood resulting in one boat being swamped and the greater part of
our baggage nicely moistened. ‘ama Belulok tells me how the
Kalabits from the interior come down and buy buffaloes from the
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Bruneis and Bisayas to take back with them. A small jungle track
was pointed out to me as the road they used, and the journey, he
told me, took them anything up to two months up and down a
series of very steep hills; many buffaloes die on the journey, but
they expect to get more than half through to the end. ‘Tama
Belulok says they start back with about 50, which they buy for
about $35 each (adults) down to perhaps $15 for a young one.
Kalabits always kill one at any important feast.
I note the charms hanging from ‘ama Belulok’s belt; a small
broken cowrie shell, a small piece of brass, an inch of cane, a human
finger-nail (convincing proof of cannibalism!), a pair of brass
depilatory forceps and a small reddish dried fruit.
During our conversation the word “k’lit” occurs, mentioned
by one of the Tabuns, who does’nt know the Malay for it, and I
cannot make out for some time what he means. ‘Tama Belulok
explains it thus: “a bird that has no feathers” and Madu, my
Land-Dayak boy, guesses it at once and explains it as “ haying
wings like a paper umbrella,” so that at last it dawns on me that
“kit” is the Tabun for “ bat.” ?
We saw two pigs on the bank, but no ti e to get a gun out
before they had fled. It was near here last year that we came across
a dead pig floating down stream; the natives with me at once
brought it ashore and on examination found that it had been fresh-
ly killed, probably by a crocodile, and within an hour the whole
lot of them were squatting round fires on the boulders by the river’s
edge, enjoying a feast of roast pork.
The little Saladong stream flows out just below our camping-
place skirting a high white limestone cliff, which gives the alter-
native name of ‘Salindong’ to this place. One day during our
enforced wait at this place last year five of my Dayaks spotted a
particular grass growing on the top of this cliff; as they could only
see one or Samra little tufts of this, they sneaked off by themselves
taking great care not to be seen by the other natives of the ex-
pedition, and after a most strenuous (and rather dangerous)
scramble they succeeded in gathering a clump of this coveted grass
(“buloh berindu”), which they carefully divided, each becoming
the proud possessor of a few blades. My most persistent questions
failed to elicit any information as to their use for it, the more I
asked the more amused and secretive they became, and all I could
get out of them was that it was not used as medicine for sickness
nor as an ointment’ for wounds. And it was only some months
after that I was told that it had the mysterious power of ensuring
success in courtship to its possessor. My diary of that date (April
10th) last year has the following note which may help to illustrate
the Dayaks’ methods :—“ Ketit (Sea- Dayak) sells his coat to one
of the Muruts of the party for $1, which he asks me to take out of
the Murut’s wages for him later. Ketit tells me he bought it
second-hand for 60 cents in Kuching, but that he told the Murut he
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gave $1.50 for it! Hugely pleased with himself over his trans-
action.”
While encamped there I ascended the hill just above the mouth
of the Saladong and from an altitude of 770 ft. got a view of Mt.
Obong bearing 8. 8. W. It did not look very far off—the natives
said three days, and I should have guessed it to be but 3-4000 feet
in height. EK. S. E. of us we saw a Jong range called Pagun ending
in a high peak due S. E. They told me rhinoceros were to be
found there; also that the streams Madamit and Saladong rise
there. ‘The Trusan river lies East of this range. On another day
I went to visit an old burial ground just above the kuala Saladong.
About an hour’s walk (unnecessarily long, but there was no path
and the guide was a bit hazy as to the right direction) through
the jungle we came to a limestone cliff; about 30 feet up
this was a small cave, “ Libong Seriou,” to which we climbed
by means of tree-roots, etc.; although only a small cave of
no great depth, it seemed to be the home of innumerable bats,
which, with a great whir-r-ring of wings, created quite a
blast of cold air. In this cave were a number of broken jars
(I counted 30 to 40) n which Muruts or Tabuns had been buried.
Some of the jars were said to be very old and worth from two to
three hundred dollars if they had not been broken. I had one (the
least broken) removed and succeeded in bringing it safely to Ku-
ching, and it is now in the Sarawak Museum. Knowing how
particular natives are about safe-guarding their burial-grounds, as
of course is only natural, | was most careful to inquire if they
objected to my removing the jar; they assured me that it did’nt
matter in the least, that nobody was buried there now and had not
been within the memory of man, that these broken jars were of no
use to anyone and that if I was anxious to take the remains of
one, nobody could possibly object.- So I took it, arriving in due
course at Limbang with the jar and party safe and sound. Then
followed an unpleasant 10 days of malaria before reaching Kuching
at the end of April. This year I am warned against taking any
more jars, as that, according to my Limbang friends, was the
obvious cause of my fever and such was only to be expected as a
reminder from the offended spirits!
Belulok told me that it was supposed to be an old Tabun
burying place, although none knew for certain now; their custom,
like that of other tribes of this region, is to bury their dead
temporarily in one of these big jars, then place it in a cave like
Libong Seriou for some six to twelve months, during which interval
the body decomposes and drains through a hole in the bottom.
After this interval a great feast is held, the jar is opened, and the
bones taken out and placed in a smaller jar for similar burial in
some other place. According to Belulok the story goes that there
used to be a house on a flat rock just in the mouth of this cave,
until a landslip occurred causing the collapse of the house and the
death of most of the inhabitants. The few survivors buried their
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relations in the cave behind and from that day it became a regular
burying place.
St. John records the fresh traces of a Kayan war-party at this
place (Salindong), noticed on his arrival here. A long pole orna-
mented with three palm-leaf tassels was interpreted by some of
his party to mean that the Kayans had obtained three heads.
May 14th: (Temp. 75°). Leave our camp about 7.30 and
soon find the river running between narrower and more rocky sides.
In one place it narrows quite suddenly and a large rock on each
side gives the name of “ Tiger’s leap ” to this part. ‘Tama Belulok
as usual sits in my boat and proves a patient conversationalist in
spite of my wearying stream of questions. One thing he told me
which was rather astonishing; he said that the nomad Penans have
large families as a rule, averaging perhaps 6 or 7; which in con-
sideration of their hard life was in startling contrast to the smaller
families of 2 and 3 to be found among the more sedentary tribes
of this region. The Penans were spoken of with disdain by the
Tabuns owing to their uncleanly habits; “you can always tell a
Penan by his smell, as he never washes except in the rain!” And
this latter statement was certainly true of a few whom I picked up
later on, although I did not observe the smell.
After 4 hours paddling we pass the kuala Tuan, where I
camped for three nights last year, and after an abortive attempt
to proceed further against the flood had to give up my first ex-
pedition and return defeated. Half an hour later we arrived at
the kuala Sipangi, the furthest point reached on that expedition
and we sit down to a midday meal and discuss the troubles of |
getting here experienced last year. This last reach was particularly
bad, as the stream was too strong to allow the men to pole against
it and only the slowest progress could be made by sending on two
or three with a rotan rope, and then they had the greatest difficulty
in climbing along the steep rocky sides, catching hold of any
shrubs or branches to save themselves falling into the river and
being swept away by the raging torrent. Not counting an interval
of six days in which we went up the Madalam, as the Limbang
was too high to allow us to start, it took us 12 days to reach the
kuala Tuan from the kuala Madalam, while this year we had
accomplised the same distance in 24 days only. Natives say they
are frequently held up for a month at a time, and at kuala Saladong
we found a party of Dayaks, who, after a month’s wait for the river,
were just going down river again to obtain some more provisions.
At the kuala Tuan, we found six more Dayaks, who said they
had been waiting 20 days for the river to go down. Once we had
decided to give it up, the return journey was very different, and a
most exciting time we had shooting down the rapids at a great pace.
missing certain destruction on rocks by a hair’s breadth every few
minutes. The Muruts are particularly clever at guiding a boat
down these swift rivers and indeed they have to be, as many lives
have been lost in these very places. Only last year the chief of the
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Madihit Kalabits was drowned just by the kuala Tuan owing to his
boat capsizing in the rapids there. Once or twice we shipped a lot
of water and only just managed to bale it out in time for the next
rapid. ‘That return journey from the kuala Tuan all the way
down to the Government station at Limbang took us just 18 hours
actual paddling.
At the kuala Sipangi we were much bothered by bees, which
simply swarmed on the bank while we ate; luckily no one was
stung, but we were glad to be off again, leaving these unwelcome
visitors behind. ‘The country becomes more open as far as we can
see it and sandstone crops up again; quite a change after the narrow
gorges passed through lower down. At the mouth of a little ditch
called the Delong we drew up our boats for the night (3.30 p.m.)
after a long day of comparatively easy going. Soon rig up a lancho
among the bamboos on the right bank and go to sleep with the
comforting prospect of but one day’s journey between us and the
kuala Madihit, where our river troubles are to end. St. John gives
a vivid account of his troubles in getting up the rapids in the
gorges just passed (1. c. pp. 63-65).
May 15th: (Temp. 8 am. 76°). A good deal of rain last
night and consequent fresh in the river this morning, however we
get off at 7.30 going very slow against the rising stream. Progress
for the most part can only be made by seizing hold of bushes along
the bank and dragging the boat along that way until one comes to a
corner where the stream is too strong to allow the boat to pass,
then every one seizes a paddle and letting go the bushes paddles for
life across to the other side, so as to creep up some twenty yards
of slack water there as far as the next bend, when the process is
repeated. ‘The dash across the current usually involves the loss of
some dozen yards and this distance has to be re-paddled. ‘The
accompanying diagram illustrates the method of progress.
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Diagram showing course
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When the stream is very strong it is impossible to get a boat
round a point like that marked A, as the moment the bow of the boat
enters the stream the water rushes in and swamps the boat ; one then
has to make a hut on the bank and sit patiently watching the river
for a month, or less, as the case may be. Again when the current
is pretty strong the man have to paddle all the know in order to get
across from one point to another, like those marked A and B;
otherwise the boat is swept down past B to the point below, marked
C; then the distance A to C has to be covered again by wearily
poling and dragging at the bank as far as A, where the dash across
has to be attempted again.
The Tabuns say that the island at the mouth of the Delong is
the site of an ancient murut graveyard, but there is nothing
to be seen there now.
At one place the river made a huge horseshoe bend which took
us an hour to get round by boat, while some walked across in a
couple of minutes. After some four hours poling we enter a long
wide reach and meet some Kalabits removing wood to build a house ;
these are the first people we have met since leaving Klowat’s house
and we pull in alongside the bank to discuss the latest news from
the front. The kuala Madihit is just ahead of us and we paddle
into its shady waters at 12.30, glad to get out of the hot midday
sun; we congratulate each other on the successful accomplishment
of the uncertain part of the journey; the rest depends entirely on
ourselves now. ‘The Tabuns and Muruts have seen or heard good
omens every day and the Dayaks have had no bad dreams, which
accounts for our success so far; and as we enter the Madihit, Tama
Belulok hears another good bird and our eventual arrival at Batu
Lawi is now assured. - |
At the entrance of the Madihit, the Limbang winds away to
the Hast and according to the natives soon becomes impassable for
boats. The Madihit itself is quite a small stream, pleasantly
sluggish at the mouth when we entered, but we soon come to the
inevitable rapid, and after half an hour’s struggling reach the land-
ing-place of a Kalabit house. Here we are met by a dozen or so
clean-limbed well-built natives, headed by Tama Kuling, the young
chief of the Kalabits of this district. We climb the steep bank to
his house which is built some way up in the hollow of a hill; the
_ jungle has been felled all round and the heat is consequently great.
Tama Kuling only recently succeeded his father, one Saribu, a
powerful chief in his time, until he:met an untimely end last year
shooting the rapids at kuala Tuan. Huis body was recovered and ~
they are now preparing an enormous feast to celebrate the final:
burial of his bones. All the countryside are invited to it, the
Adangs from Okap’s house three days away, the Kalabits from
Seridan and Malinau; most of all the Madihit Kalabits and some
down-river Muruts have already arrived. Tama Kuling shows me
no less than 35 great jars of tuach (the fative whisky-and-very-little-
soda, made from fermented rice) awaiting consumption. An
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average jar measures 2 ft. 9 in. in height and some 5 ft. in cireum-
ference; they hold about 23 gallons so that some 800 gallons in all
were awaiting consuimption! ‘Tama Kuling wanted our party to
stay for this great feast, but as they talked of being drunk for a
week or more I decided against it, though by doing so it became
difficult. to get coolies enough to follow; our boats’ crews being in-
sufficient to carry food and baggage over the land journey. As men-
tioned before, from the kuala Madihit two routes to Batu Lawi
offered, one to the Adang villages and then south to the mountain,
the other up the Madihit and then due east for an indefinite number
of days—some said three, others ten. ‘The majority of the Adang
people were expected at the feast, so it was regarded as useless to
expect to get coolies from their houses, besides the rumours of un-
pleasant feeling between them and the Dayaks with me, which we
had heard down-river, were confirmed here, so we decided on the
Madihit route. Tama Kuling himself naturaliy could not leave
all his guests to accompany us, so he deputed an elderly Kalabit,
Penribut by name, to take charge of us. He was the head of the
furthest house up the Madihit and was said to know the way at
Batu Lawi. I went up the hill behind the house in the evening
(800 ft.) and enjoyed a fine view of the surrounding hills though
we were not high enough up to see the lofty mountains of the
interior. In the evening we all warmed up over two bottles of gin
Gay contribution) and one jar of tuach (from Tama Kuling).
The Kalabits seemed a little apprehensive and uncertain of our
intentions when we arrived, but night time saw us all on quite
friendly terms. ‘Tama Kuling expects Penribut and his men to
come in to-morrow as they have been invited to the feast. We
kept it up to a late hour that night and when I woke next morning
some of the “ hard cases” were still at it.
May 16th: (Temp. in house 7.30 am. 74°). The collectors
and I went off collecting this morning into the jungle on the hill
behind the house, two with guns and others with butterfly nets. I
was lucky enough to find a Lycaenid butterfly (Allotinus nivalis) in
the act of attending an. Homopterous larva. The Museum collectors
had reported this phenomenon on several occasions before from
different places and I communicated the substance of their obser-
vations to the Entomological Society of London,* but I had not
then been able to make the observations myself. I first saw the
butterfly cross my path and allight on the upperside of a twig, per-
haps three feet from the ground, then it walked slowly round to the
underside of this twig and approached a small whitish “ mouldy ”—
looking larva (Homopterous?), on which were standing two very
‘small black ants apparently feeding. ‘The butterfly, when close
enough, stood there protruding its tongue gently on to the larva,
*Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1910. pp. xxxviii-xli. ‘‘A Lycaenid in attendance
on an Homopteron’”’ and ‘‘A further note on a Lycaenid in attendance on an
Homopteron.”’
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which stayed there quite passively; the ants also did not object,
though occasionally one would walk in the way of the butterfly’s
proboscis and then one antenna would come down slowly as if
in gentle remonstrance. Both antennae were held well back over
the butterfly’s head and the wings were closed erect, in the usual
manner of this subfamily of Lycaenidae. I watched the process
for some minutes, squatting quite close to the performers.
In the evening it rained, and just before dusk we were startled
by the sudden arrival of a party of Adangs rushing down the hill-
side with parangs (swords) drawn. ‘They rushed round the house
in the pouring rain cutting down any low-growing shrub in their
path and then climbed up the ladder into the house breathless; |
was unable to find out the exact significance of this custom; later
we go through the gin and tuach process again in honour of the
new arrivals who have come in during the day and now fill the
house. Instead of the usual dancing the Kalabits entertain us
with a curious sing-song, which is quite pleasant to the ear with
its full tones and gentle cadences, one or two singing a part together,
others answering and then a loud chorus before beginning another
verse. They went on most of the night and the jar of drink
was still in requisition in the morning. This jar is stood in the
middle of the long common-room which runs the length of’ the
house as in Murut houses, and round it sit all the people. One
(or sometimes two) appears to be in charge of it and his duty is
to lead the visitor up to have a pull at the bamboo tube stuck in the
lid, or else when the lid is off to bale out a cupful and take it round.
There is always a great deal of fuss made before the thirsty visitor
permits himself to drink, and after several good-tempered attempts
to refuse it he eventually accepts, having insisted on the host taking
a sip first. It is then a point of honour to drain the cup dry—
none too easy to task when the liquid is neat gin! The head of
the Adangs, Tama Kuling, Penribut, Tama Belulok and I drank
each other’s health going through this same ceremony; thus Tama
Kuling refused the drink I offered him till I had tasted it myself
and when my turn came for one of them to offer me a drink I,
being in Kalabit-land, must needs do as Kalabits do, and so was
equally persistent in refusing the proffered drink until the bearer
of it had tasted it himself first.
The women appeared singularly ill-favoured, though cleaner
and whiter-skinned than the Muruts down-river. They wore a
little collection of metal rings (tin or iron) suspended from the
lobe of the ear; and their arms (wrist to shoulder) and legs (ankle
to knee) were usually tatooed with some linear pattern. Their
only garment was a short skirt, which some writer has rather aptly
described “as beginning, too late and ending too soon.” : The men
wear a long tooth (tigetr-cat’s or bear’s) through the hole in the
upper part of each ear and sometimes a brass ring or lump sus-
pended from the lobe as well. JI measured a few Kalabits in the
house and found the height of adult males varied from 5 ft. 1 in.
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ft. 6 in. They spanned more than their height by some 2
inches or so in every case. A Murut, Balang Alar by name, a fine
tall well-made fellow with long thick hair reaching below his waist
measured 5 ft. 9 in. and seemed to tower over his neighbours.
In this house I noticed a curious pair of antlers hanging up
on the wooden Pare on which run down the middle of the house.
Unfortunately I do not know the right way of describing them and
my mtention of photographing them on my return was frustrated
through alterations in our plans, which prevented my returning to
that house again. My note-book has the following :—* four stout
branches (2 on each side), these branching off again into blunt
wide projections, totalling 14 points in all. Tama Kuling’s father
bought it from the Pabaws an people years ago and according to them
it belongs toa “rusa” (Cervus equinus), but it is so different from
that, that I think it must belong to a different animal.” I tricd
to purchase it, but Tama Kuling did not want to part with it.
Later he gave me some rice for our men in exchange for some yards
of red cloth. I also presented him with a whistle which pleased
him quite a lot. He was most particular in regarding my cloth
and his rice as presents, and strongly deprecated all idea of the
transaction being in the nature of a purchase.
‘Tama Kuling, Balang Alar, the tall Murut, and one or two of
the other Murut visitors from down-river telk Malay, but the rest
cannot talk that language or Dayak. It is curious to note the effect
of the enterprising Dayaks who are spreading rapidly over this and
adjacent districts, for in many Murut neuses the inmates talk
Dayak but not Malay; one Murut I remember last year seemed
almost hurt that the language I spoke (Malay) was not the same
as the foreign tongue he had learnt (Dayak), "Jako Iban aku
namu,” he said, SS tapi jako nuan enda namu aku.” (“ Dayak I
know, but your linguistic efforts beat me altogether ”), so I had to
try my best Dayak on him, resulting I’m afraid, in but indifferent
success. The T'abuns seemed most at home in this language ques-
tion, talking Malay, Dayak, Murut and Kalabit with equal ease ;
these two last dialects are certainly very close to Tabun but are
nevertheless quite distinct, so much so that a Trusan Murut with
~me could hardly make himself understood at all when talking to a
Kalabit and his persevering attempts used to call forth shouts of
- laughter from his Tabun friends. He talked Malay and Dayak to
-a-certain extent. Two of my Dayaks knew Murut well, having
married Murut ladies, but they couldnt understand any Kalabit.
: Our new guide Penribut (Kalabit) an oldish man with a cheerful
smile and a great capacity for drink did not understand a word of
Malay or Dayak, but appeared to talk Murut easily enough. St.
John’s journey was made by the Madihit, and although he records
the traces of a former Chinese colony there, he makes no mention
of any other settlers in the Madihit.*
**“To show how exteusively the Chinese formerly spread over the iountry,
I notice that they had pepper plantations evensup the Madihit as late as the
remembrance of some of the oldest Muruts.’’ (/. c. p. 73).
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May 17th: A certain amount of thick heads this morning
and consequently rather slow in getting away. Our plan is to get
up the Madihit to Penribut’s house by boat as far as possible, wait
a day there for coolies and rice, and then walk overland to Batu
Lawi. ‘The eleven Pandaruan Dayaks make some trouble over the
shortage of matches and even say they want to return on this
account. I had foolishly trusted to some patent lighters which I
thought would withstand the wet better than boxes of wooden
matches and in consequence had not brought many boxes of
matches. Unfortunately they also withstood our attempts at strik-
ing a light, however some of the Tabuns had brought a few packets
and by taking a little care we were able to make them last out all
right. ‘There is a strong fresh in the Madihit so that we can
use boats, though progress is necessarily slow against this strong
stream ; without the fresh the river would be too dry to allow boats
to be used at all. At 3 o'clock clouds began to gather and we stop
to make a lancho on the left bank. In the evening we catch a
large number of moths flying to the lamp on the “ krangan” (stony
river bed) below our hut.
May 18th: (Temp. 7.45 a.m. 73.5°). Break camp early and
after breakfast start off again (8 a.m.), soon encountering steep
rapids. Pass the kuala Rawan on our left and later on-the kuala
Tera (?=that marked in St. John’s map as Petra). The boats are
dragged up with some difficulty and we come later to a-bad place
called the Seridan rapid; here Tama Belulok says he has been
wrecked twice, losing most of his belongings each time. Just above
this we come to the kuala Aripenou and find a small Kalabit house
on the right bank. It is impossible to get the boats any further
up the river and although it is only one o’clock, Penribtt’s house
is too far off to reach to-night, so we haul the boats up and have
a refreshing bathe—a daily joy in the latter part of this up-river
journey safe from the fear of crocodiles, although the natives say
that they are seen right up these streams even as far as this, but they
never attack human ‘beings : after the bathe, a meal and then a ram-
ble in the jungle behind the house. Some Kalabits arrive in the
afternoon from ‘l'ama Kuling’s house, havig left early in the morn-
ing on foot, doing the journey in about 6 hours (without carrying
baggage) while we have taken a day and a half to do the same
distance by river. Penribut arrives later and finds me bathing at
the landing place. He makes a picturesque figure fording the river
in his bark war-coat ornamented with the black and white tail
feathers of a hornbill hanging over his shoulders; the- front of the
coat (which by the way is armless) is much shorter and is orna-
mented by a large round pearl-shell ;* a blue chawat (loin cloth),
his hair twisted in a knot at the back of his head and fastened’ with
a long iron pin (about 9 inches and about as thick as a big French
nail) and a spear in his hand completes the picture. Belulok tells
* See Ling Roth, vol. 2, pp. 101 and 103.
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him to shake hands with me, apparently a novel proceeding to him,
and then he joins me in my bathe, taking care to bathe below me so
that I shall not get his wash!! I have been told that in certain
places natives make a point of bathing in the stream below a
Kuropean while he is bathing above, so that they can enjoy the
water tainted by him and thus partake of some of his superior (7)
qualities. ‘The same principal is in evidence when a Malay shakes
hands with a Hadji (man who has done the pilgrimage to Mecca)
and draws lis hands away from the Hadji into his own chest,
with the idea of partaking of some of the Hadji’s holiness. Malays
and many other natives do it too after shaking hands with Euro-
peans, though the actual good obtained thereby in some of these
cases must be a little doubtful.
When we arrived at this house there was hardly a soul to be
seen, most of the men being away feasting at Tama Kulsng’s and
the women were too afraid to come out of their rcoms for some
time. Belulok told me a message had been sent from ‘lama
- Kuling’s house the night before to advise them of our coming and
to-assure them of our peaceful intentions, otherwise they would all
have fled into the jungle.
After a few friendly overtures to the smaller children of the
house in the shape of a biscuit or two, their shyness disappeared
and the inmates began to show themselves. I found it always
answered remarkably well to pay attention to the babies, as that
seemed to dispel any feelings of distrust at once; the women
beamed silently at one, while the men were more disposed to help.
The men themselves seem to pay more attention to the children
than do their mothers, for in every house one would see a proud
father or two strolling about with a child on his back, no matter
whether he was an important chief or not. Thus a request to the
chief for the loan of a boat was certain to be acceded to without
further trouble, if one adroitly oiled the way first with a sardine
tor the chief’s baby son! Noticed a small monkey (“brok”’)
Macacus nemestrinus tied up to the house, the first pet I have seen
on this journey, except for countless ill-fed dogs which are the
greatest nuisance in every house.
May 19th: Weare still short of men to act as carriers and we
have to leave some things behind, such as kadjangs and food for the
return journey. We get off at 8.30, thirty-nine of us in all and a
Dayak, a Chinaman and myself, the representative of Hurope. ‘The
path almost at once leads down and cross the river, then up a steep
bit on the left bank, past the site of a former Kalabit house visited
by Mr. Ward in 1907; the posts were still remaining, but no more,
the people having moved elsewhere; then up to 1,400 ft. and later
to 1,700 ft., the path running along the top of a range of hills
running more or less parallel to the Madihit; in one place we pass
a solitary jar standing by the path; this is pointed out as contain-
ing the remains of a Kalabit, who died last year; at midday we
descend to a small stream, the Gritang, where we feed. According
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to St. John’s map this stream should be on the other side of the
Madihit and I learnt later that there was another stream of that
name flowing out on the other bank just at the same place as the
Gritang joins the Madihit from our side; and some days later we
passed two streams of the same name flowing into the Madihit, one
on either side.
After the Gritang the path cuts inland away from the Madihit
and we climb a range of hills further west to those which border
the Madihit; between the two hills is a wide valley and perched
right on the top of the hill opposite us we see Penribut’s house.
The path winds round to the head of the valley and so across until
we arrive a little after 4 pm. We have come practically due south
from the mouth of the Madihit, the general direction of the
Limbang from the kuala Madalam to that point being south-east.
We stopped once or twice on the path by some curiously marked
trees. A smooth strip had been cut on the trunk and some charcoal
figures drawn to represent guns, buffaloes, jars and boats. Tama
Belulok explained that these were records of other parties that had
passed that way; some three or four circles he explained meant they
had been travelling three or four months and some other marks he
interpreted as the number of lumps of rubber obtained by the party!
We left our mark for the information of the next passers-by.
Penribut’s house is built across the top of a hog’s back ridge
at an altitude of 2,100 ft., and consequently gets a continual gale
blowing through it from one side of the valley or the other, and the
smoke inside was something awful. We were met outside by a
short ugly man with close-cropped hair who came down the steps
of the house to do the honours in the absence of Penribut, who was’
following a little way behind. They told me that he had recently
lost his wife and that was the reason of his shaved head, which
looked very out of place among all these men with fine long hair
flowing down their backs. Apparently it is the custom among the
Kalabits, Muruts and Tabuns, for a man to shave his head on the
death of his wife, and again when her bones are removed to their
final resting place after the temporary disposal of some six months
ina jar. After the final burial the widower may let his hair grow
again. The same rule applies to a woman who loses her husband;
she has to shave her head too. In Tama Kuling’s house I noticed
two people (man and woman) distinguished by this sign of bereave-
ment. Tama Belulok tells me the custom is not observed on the
death of a parent or child.
a parent or child.
While sitting in Penribut’s house in the evening, we heard
a sudden commotion going on behind the wooden partition which
runs the length of the house dividing the living rooms from the
common room. Instantly Penribut got up to see what was the
matter and he was soon followed by about ten other Kalabits who
all disappeared into one of the rooms; the noise continued and
seemed to come from several babies and women screaming at once,
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helped by discordant cries from the men endeavouring to make
them quiet. Eventually we learned that it was a baby crying—
“sakit tolach,” as my people explained it, meaning that it was a
fit, paroxysm of anger (7) or delight (7) brought on by our
arrival. One of the Kalabits brought out a small plug of wood
which they asked me to spit on; this done, they took it back,
touched the child’s hand and body with it, and the cure was com-
plete; peace reigned once more and we resumed our conversation
about plans for to-morrow. ‘The Tabuns and Dayaks took it all as
a matter of course and I gather that the same thing is done with
them. The commotion among the Kalabits for the moment was
quite remarkable.
As mentioned above, the house stands on the top of a hill and
a magnificent view of the surrounding country is thus obtained.
‘lo the west, 1.e., straight across the valley below us is the range of
hills which we came along to-day, behind them rise Molu and Obong
where the Seridan, Malinau and Tutau rivers haye their source;
to the south-west there are some high mountains which must be
in the Baram district about the head of the Akar; in the south
and to the south-east are more hills which they say border the Bar
country; due East of us they point out a little rock as big as my
thumb peeping over the top of a great black range of mountains
on the horizon: this is Batu Lawi, the object of our journey, and
we have to reach that range of mountains before we can see any
more of it, let alone get tv it! In spite of warnings received on
the way here, we point te wards it, and almost at once a black cloud
comes up and hides it from our view, then more clouds and the
country east of us shows signs of rain, then a few drops and we too
are in the thick of it. Batu Lawi has vindicated its reputation
already. After a fortnight’s fine weather enabling us to get thus
far in quite good time, we have but to point at this dread mountain
and down comes the rain. [To get ahead of my diary for a
moment, I may say that it continued wet for practically the whole
of the next fortnight!]. To the north and north-east of us lie the
Adang hills stretching away towards that huge range in the East;
the valley below us runs north and south, the northern end opening
out at the kuala Madihit.
May 20th: (Temp. 73.4°). Out early this morning, only to
find the place in thick clouds and ever ything ; sopping wet. Last night
(1 a.m.) we were awakened by a terrific ‘crash of thunder, imme-
diately overhead; this was followed by torrents of rain, which
speedily came through the wretched leaf roof. I got a kajang rigged
up over me, but not before most things were wet. The smoke is
most irritating and everyone is coughing and choking from it.
Most of the inmates have watery eyes and no wonder. It is the
same type of house as the other Murut and Kalabit houses we have
passed, and in the common room there was three fire places in use.
besides the others in the living rooms. The raised flaps of the
roof under which we sit draw all the smoke out and the only habit-
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able spot is on the wooden platform outside the end of the house ;
it is quite nice sitting out there in the evening with a glorious view:
all round, but too hot to stay there in the heat of the day. A scaly
- ant-eater (Manis javanica) is brought in having been captured by
the dogs of the house.
Owing to the thickness of the mist they will not be able to
dry any paddy to-day for us to take, so we shall have to wait here
to-morrow before starting off again. ‘There appears to be no chance
of getting any more coolies, so all we can do is to carry enough |
- food for ten days, which should enable us to do the journey to Batu
Lawi and back and no more; but | hope we can shoot something
- and find a little jungle produce to enable us to stay there a few
- days; however the chief thing is to get there first.
Went out in the morning down the hill on the north side of
the house and heard the waters of the Madihit below us. It
appears to run in a south-easterly direction (1.e., following it from >
the mouth it runs south as far as the kuala Aripenou and thence
south-east past this hill). I cannot make out which is Mt. Obong
and which is Mt. Molu of the high peaks in the range to the west
of us; this has been a source of argument the whole way up, some
saying one thing and others flatly contradicting; the only thing.
that is clear is that the whole range is the Molu Range; the highest
is a double peak and to the north of that (in the same range) are
four other peaks whose bearings I read as 281°6, 290°4, 287°5
and 300:2 respectively. The first they tell me is the source of the
Seridan river, which runs into the Mago and thence into the Tutau
and Baram.
May 21st: (Temp. 76°). A nice fine morning and every
prospect of drying the paddy and getting off to-morrow. After,
a bathe under a bamboo pipe stuck into the hill side,—the only
water to be obtained here, we go off collecting in different direc-
tions. Catch some interesting insects, among them an interesting
female Chaleosid moth, which mimics the common Pierine butter-,
fly Terias hecabe; the male is entirely different in colouring and
pattern.* The beautiful Papilio brookeanus appears to be common.
The collectors bring in a large male “ brok ” (Macacus nemestrinus) |
and a fine bushy-tailed squirrel. (Rhithrosciurus macrotis).
T amused the company and myself by measuring the right-hand
ee to little finger stretch of 25 men (adults). They were as
ollows :—
Sea-Dayaks. Tabuns. Kalabits. Muruts.
21.4 em. 21.4 cm. (Belulok) 21.8 cm. 20.7 cm.
20.— 20.— == 19.7 NG).g)
oe 20.— 20 6 —
21.-— 19.2 (Tama Be'ulok) 20.3
___*Mention is made of this instance of mimicry in a short account of mime-
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Entomological Society of London. 1911. pp. lxiii—lxxx,
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19.4 18.3 20 Land-Dayak.
20.8 20 4 20.— 18.9 cm.(Madu).
a= — 21.2 (Penribut) ~
21.2
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25.—cm. (myself).
to take them away with me.
20.2 cm. (cook).
I also obtained Penribut’s permission to measure two old
skulls which were hanging up on the centre wall of the house. He
offered no objections, but seemed a little nervous lest I should want
‘he measurements were as follows
(worked out with the aid of little volume issued by the Royal
Geographical Society for the use of travelers) :—
I ib
Length from fore-head to occiput 190 mm. 172 mm. Callipers.
Greatest breadth 131 mm. 134 mm. do,
Circumference fore-head to back of head) 534 mm. 495 mm. Tape.
Shape ovoid ovoid —
Front edge of foramen magnum to top 102 mm. 106 mm. Callipers.
of nose.
do. to juncture of front teeth. 101 mm. 100 mm. do.
Outer edges of orbital bones 114 mm. 113 mm. do.
Outer edge (widest measurement) zygo-
matic arch = 130 mm. do.
Vertex to below chin 185 mm. 183 mm. do.
jaw very jaw not
prominent. prominent.
adult male. ‘senile male.
(B. X 100) 68.977.9
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Both skulls were old and black with smoke; according to
Penribut, probably Muruts of the upper Trusan or Bar country;
but no very exact data forthcoming.
There is a wretched cripple in this house with a tied knee
joint, which keeps him for ever in a squatting position, so that he
can neither stand or sit; he seems quite cheerful. ‘The women are
cleaner, pleasant-featured and friendly; they are not at all shy
and watch me bathe under the bamboo pipe with much interest ;
we try a conversation but without success, neither of us being able
to speak a language known to the other. Like the Kalabits at kuala
Madihit, they are tattooed on the legs and arms, and they boast but
one garment, a short dark blue or black skirt; their hair is loosely
fastened up behind and ornamented with a broad band of beads
worn like a cap. ‘These beads are their only possession of value,
and I was told that an insignificant light brown type of bead,
if genuinely old, was valued the highest.
A Kalabit from the Seridan brings dire rumours of disaster
to Tama Belulok’s relatives in the Tutau (Oyau Blawing’s house) ;
he says the inhabitants of the whole village (some 30 families)
have died from some new disease about two months ago, except for
five people. ‘Tama Belulok and his people are much disturbed at
the news and suggest a desire to return. Luckily we had only just
been discussing the unreliability of rumours heard in a far off
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country like this and I was able to show that one of them at all
events was quite inaccurate. Belulok had told me that the news
of the Rajah Muda’s death had reached him last year and that it
was generally believed all over that district; he was quite surprised
to hear that, although it was true the Rajah Muda had been very
ill, he had quite recovered now and was expected in Sarawak again
before long. There was another rumour current here to the effect
that a Dutch Controlleur had been killed by the natives in the
head-waters of the Batang Kayan not many days journey from here;
this too I contradicted, having heard in Sarawak that this Dutch
official, reported missing for some time, had come through safely
after all. [I heard on my return in July that there was prob vably
some truth in the Kalabit story after all, as inquiries were still
being made for that particular official]. It took a long time to
persuade the Tabuns not to take this rumour too literally and I
went so far as to predict that it was more likely five men had died
and the rest survived, not the other way about, as the Kalabit
reported. Yet another story was current, this time, that the
Government had forbidden any Kalabit to go down river for four
years because of this dread disease, and further that if any of them
disobeyed, the down-river tribes had been given permission to take
their heads! !
Tama Belulok is ill with fever to-day, and is afraid he will
not be well enough to go to-morrow.
May 22nd: (Temp. 75°, cloudy). Begin dividing out the
rice, a tedious job which might have been done with advantage
yesterday. Tama Belulok is worse this morning and decides to
stay behind; I leave one of his men to look after him; Belulok (his
son) takes his place as my chief adviser and interpreter. He took
charge of my expedition last year, and feels that our failure then
reflects in some measure on him, so that it is incumbent on him
to get us through to Batu Lawi this ime. Although quite young,
he has a useful influence over the men; his information is usually
reliable and his advice is undoubtedly sound. ‘The worst of so
many of these natives is that they never mind being shown up as
hars, and they le again at the first opportunity if it is to their
interest to do so. For instance, when they wanted to stop at
Klowat’s house for the Dayak-Murut wedding (ten days ago) some
of them swore positively that there was no place for us to spend the
night between there and Salindong which we could’nt possibly reach
that might. Unfortunately for them I had been there last year
and so knew the nature of that bit of river, with the result that we
pushed on and found quite a good place for a lancho (kuala
Smarpit). Nearly every day similar instances cropped up, many
that did’nt matter, but some that did. Belulok was one of the few
who never let me down in that way—at least, not that I know of.
They did not of course do it out of sheer perversity, but generally
as an excuse for a delay or else in actual ignorance of the subject I
inquired about. We start at 9.30 and follow a winding path
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through the jungle in a general easterly direction arriving at the
Madihit again about 2 p.m. ‘The river runs nearly north here but
bends away to the west below us and to the east again above us.
Penribut says the path leads straight up into the hills now and the
next place for water is a long way ahead so we must spend the
night here. We have had several stops, resulting in a balance of
three and a half hours walking only—a poor day’s work. However
I feel I have had quite enough and am glad to stop, especially as
it is raining hard; we make a lancho on the right bank above and
enjoy a delicious bathe in the cool clear water below, altitude 1,300
ft. Below us two little streams flow out into the Madihit from
either bank; both called the Patud.
May 23rd: (Temp. 6 a.m. 69°). ‘To-day nice and fine again;
I hope to get in a long day’s march.
This no sooner written than Penribut is reported to be desirous
of staying here another day on account of a bad omen heard a few
minutes ago, which warns him of trouble if he starts. After much
persuasion with the help of Belulok, he goes back to his lancho to
get ready his things for marching; only to return shortly after
looking more obstinate than ever, having again heard the evil bird,
which he says absolutely prevents his doing any journey to-day.
After much good-tempered, but useless, argument I try to com-
promise and say that two of his men may stay and propitiate the
bird provided they can get their friends to carry their loads. But
this proposal is not acceptable so I insist on them all following,
birds or no birds; and this they do with a good grace, although we
have lost a good half hour by talking. Path leads straight up the
hill and maintains a general easterly direction ; I note the following
altitudes: camp above the Madihit 1,400 ft., then up to 1,900 ft.,
2,200 ft., 2,400 ft., 2,700 ft., 8,000 ft.; down to 2,720 ff., then
up to a steep 500 ft. to 3,220 ft., whence we get a good view
of the two peaks of Batu Lawi; the higher and steeper peak like
a chimney lies to the north, the lower and more rounded peak to
the south. The big range still impedes our view of the lower
portion of Batu Lawi. ‘To the north and parallel to us run the
Raya Hills; the tall virgin jungle hides all other views.
Saw two specimens of the “‘ moth-like horsefly ” mentioned by
St. John,* the first I have seen in the jungle though the insect—a
Cicada (Tacua speciosa, \\hg.)—is not rare at lamps in Sarawak.
Later we disturbed another large Cicada (Pomponia diffusa,
Bredd.) which flew straight into a large spider’s web, where I watched
it for some time struggling hopelessly to free itself; it was even-
tually “rescued ” with the aid of butterfly net. Considering the
strong flight of the insect and its size-(with tegmina expanded it
*“T found today, just as we were crossing the ridge, one of the most curi-
ous insects I have ever seen ; it appeared like a gigantic moth, above four inches
in length, and was of a brown colour, with a band of bright green just across
its neck ; although it had the look of a moth, on clcser examination it proved
to be a great horsefly.’’ Spenser St. John, op. cit. pp. 85-86.
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measures 150 mm., while vertex of head to end of abdomen measures
48 mm.), it was rather surprising that the web should hold it so
effectually . Belulok caught a large Sphingid (Hawk-moth, Oxy-
ambulyx substrigilis, Westw.) by the side of the path. Rain again
in the afternoon which developed into a heavy thunderstorm as we
stopped to make a lancho for the night (alt. 3,100 ft.), and now as
I write (8 p.m.) it has started again with renewed vigour. We
passed little streams or pools of water in two or three places on the
way and I pointed out that the first or second would have done well
for last night’s lancho. At 2 o’clock this afternoon we came to one
and the Kalabits wanted to stop with the same excuse as yesterday,
but this time I said he would push on till we did find some more
water. With our short supply of food, the long distance to be
covered and the uncertainty of the path, it is necessary to push on
at every opportunity.
May 24th: (Temp. 6 a.m. 67°). Several of the party with
bad colds, and cuts and sores on their feet, but generally cheerful.
Our path to-day leads along the top of a ridge at a fairly even
altitude of 3,100 ft. for two hours; then up to 3,700 ft. and after
a short descent we have another long climb up to the summit of
this part, 4,000 ft., which according to Penribut is called Mt.
Turan.
Although the natives with me have not been able to recognize
any of St. John’s names for the mountains of this part, I think St.
John must have reached this range and then turned north towards
the Adang villages. His route appears to have run parallel to
mine from the Madihit to the Limbang, only further to the north
and over a lower country as he records 2,500 ft. as the highest
altitude crossed between the two rivers, while we have already
touched 4,000 ft. (and later 5,000 ft.) without coming to the
Iimbang yet. Our general direction is stil] East. and the
path shut in on all sides by old jungle prevents our obtain-
ing any veiw except for an oceasional glimpse though the
trees on some of the higher elevations. We camp late in
the afternoon to the usual accompaniment of pouring rain
(alt. 3,900 ft.). Thermometer down to 67° at sunset. One of
the collectors shot a rare Oriole (Oriolus hosei, Sharpe). Rarely
seen or hear any signs of animal life, except for the occasional cry
of a Wa-Wa (LHylobates miilleri, the Gibbon). Water has not been
found all day, except just now at a little pool some way below our
present camp, and we have had to satisfy ourselves with some
from the roots of trees, which hold quite a lot when one cuts off
lengths of the right kind. Penribut says we shall reach the river
Kri to-morrow where we shall see the whole of Batu Lawi quite
close; he does not know the path any further than that. ‘T’emper-
ature 67° at sundown.
May 25th: (6 a.m. temp. 65.5°). Left camp early and at once
continue the ascent reaching 4,460 ft., the head-waters of the
Madihit are pointed out running parallel to us in the valley below
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on our right; our general direction is E. S. E. until we reach a
high ridge and follow it south, alt. 4,700 ft. to 5,000 ft. This is
evidently the top of the high range which barred our view of Batu
Lawi from Penribut’s house, as we can now see through the trees
the whole mountain opposite and apparently quite close. We camp
in a sheltered hollow a little way down the eastern slope of this
hill, which is called Mt. Derian,* having walked for a bare three
hours from our last camping place; temperature at 2 p.m. down to
62° Fahr. (rain). Our first day’s walk was similarly short, so that
it ought to be possible to accomplish the journey so far in two long
days’ walk instead of four. However yesterday and the day before
were long and tiring, up and down these steep hills, and the men
are heavily burdened. I have just said that we had a fine view
of Batu Lawi from this point, but as a matter of fact the jungle is
so thick that one can only catch a glimpse of its outlines and for
the greater part of the day it was hidden in clouds. Madu, my
Land-Dayak boy, volunteered to climb a tree and off came his coat
with which he tied his feet securely together (or rather about
twelve inches apart) and up he went hand over hand, gripping the
trunk of the tree with the soles of his feet which were prevented
from slipping by the coat. He soon disappeared up the smooth
straight trunk into the branches high up over our heads, out of
sight and almost out of earshot. He told us, when he came down,
that there appeared to be a deep valley between us and Batu Lawi,
but that two spurs sloped down towards it one on our left and the
other on our right. Poor little Madu, he died from dysentry three
months after we got back. He stood about 4 ft. 10 in., but strong
and well-made at that; always bright and cheerful, the life and soul
of the party, everybody made friends with him at once; many a
time he amused us greatly ordering the Kalabits and Muruts about
in a loud voice and it was quite wonderful to see how they did what
he wanted, for they did’nt know a word of each other’s language.
I had been particularly keen to bring him for that particular reason,
as it has been suggested that the Land-Dayaks and Muruts show
evidences of relationship in their languages. I frequently made
him talk Land-Dayak to both Muruts and Kalabits, but they never
understood him nor could they find a word in common. Also, try
as he might, he could only understand a word of Murut or Kalabit.
Later we tried with Penan, but beyond a few words of wide dis-
tribution in Malaya (such as ramin, house, ta’in, stomach, dipeu,
tooth, etc.) their languages proved quite unintelligible to one
another. Madu was quite a travelled native, especially for a Land-
Dayak, who as a rule is rather stay-at-home and unenterprising :
*According to the natives, so-named on account of a huge Durian ? tree
growing on the path along the top. The tree was certainly unlike the cultivat-
ed Durian and according to my Dayaks, quite unlike any wild Durian ; one
suggested subsequently that‘Derian’ was the Kalabit for ‘Dian’, meaning that
the tree was one of those kinds whose bark makes good torches. We were
unable to solve the point.
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he had been in Singapore and the Native States, besides having
travelled in Sarawak a good deal. We had talked over several
expeditions to be made together in the future, but alas, now to no
purpose.
Rain all this afternoon and temperature down to 62° at 2 p.m.
A few mosquitoes in the evening—rather surprising at this altitude.
May 26th: None of the party know the way any further and
there appears to be no path except the one we have come by and that
continues south to the Bar plain as far as I can make out; it 1s so,
overgrown and hard to find that Penribut missed it several times
on the way here. A small party go out to look for some sort of
track, others go off collecting, while a few remain to cut down
some trees so that we can dry our things in the sun. Since leaving
the Madihit we have hardly been in the glare of the sun a moment
owing to the dense jungle over our heads practically the whole
time. Clothes have been dried (or rather smoked) over fires
whenever opportunity offered.
In this wet and cold spot, with the thermometer at midday
under 70° (it varies from 62°-67°) there seemed to be a great
absence of animal, bird and insect life, and the “din” of a
tropical night was noticeably absent. One occasionally heard the
warning crack of some giant of the jungle about to fall.* The
natives always took great care to build our lanchos out of reach of
any rotten trees. Hight Kalabits arrive with the remainder of
our baggage which was left at Penribut’s house for them to bring.
They should have joined us there, but said the Madihit was in
flood so that they could’nt get across. The head of them, a sour-
looking individual, Lawaratu by name, is supposed to know the
path all the way to Batu Lawi, but now informed us that he does
not. The path-seekers returned with the report of a hopeiess track
down the river Kri which rises just below us; they suggest
looking for another’ path to-morrow. Belulok estimates it as
two or three days yet before we get there; it looks to me but
one day’s walk. St. John must have reached the northern end
of this range before turning north to the Adang villages which
are said to be about three days journey from here. Mt.
Derian rises to the westward higher than I thought, about
5,200 ft. and to the south and parallel to it there runs another
short range with one high peak about 5,600 ft. The Madihit is
said to rise between these two.
*As an instance of the danger cf falling trees I may mention a narrow es-
cape I had on another occasion (on trip to Mt. Klingkang). After walking for
some hours our party came to a tempting stream and many of us bathed in the
coolclear water. I had only fini hed and climbed out of the pool a bare two min-
utes, before a huge tree fell right across the place. There was no wind at the
time, and but for a warning crack before its actual fal], some of the natives
might easily have been caught. In an interval of five davs no less than three
large trees hid fallen along or across our path to that mountain, in a distance of
some seven miles.
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The natives in their scanty clothing find it very cold at night,
many of them lie huddled up round the fires. One or two complain
of fever, others of stomach trouble or colds. ‘The food is getting
short so we cannot afford another day here looking for a path.
May 27th: (Temp. 7. a.m. 63°). We start of alom@ the
mountains in a southern direction, then descend east to the river
Kri, alt. 3,700 ft., continue down that river knee-deep till 11 a.m.
when we come across the remains of a hut recently used by Dayak
gutta-hunters. It has been a most tedious morning scrambling
along the river bed, or river bank, over huge boulders, “ tight-rope-
walking * along fallen trees which the natives invariably makes
straight for, regarding such as Heaven-sent bridges; the European
Is inclined to regard them in another ght, especially when they
span a mountain torrent, swirling along some thirty feet below one.
The Kalabits wanted to stop at this place as we could find no trace
of any further path, so we did—but only for a meal and then on
again up the hill, Bululok and I acting as guides. By my compass
I knew that Batu Lawi was on our right and that by following the
stream on down any further we were likely to be led too far to the
north, so we cut straight up over the hill, a stiff scramble on hands
and knees with parangs in constant use to cut a way through the
undergrowth, whieh was not very thick luckily, owing to the tall
trees overhead. The natives with their heavy loads had a bad time
of it, but some of them deserved it for pretending not to know the
way. ‘The Kalabits in particular have seemed more and more dis-
inclined each day to bring us to Batu Lawi; they must know the
way in reality, as they once lived quite near here, according to
Penribut; although I have not heard them mention it, I think it is
because each day “brings us nearer to the country of their enemies,
the dread Pa Brian people, who live the other side of Batu Lawi.
Later we struck a path running more or less in the right direction
which we followed for some two hours and a half. At one place
we were startled at seeing fresh blood on the ground, and an
examination of the leading: half dozen showed that it could not
have come from any of them, as a!though most exhibited the atten-
tions of leeches, cuts or other wounds, none could have been the
cause of so much blood. We looked in vain for traces of some
animal; some uneasily murmured “munsu” (enemy) and for
some ten minutes we sat down and discussed the mystery; even-
tually a Murut joined us and owned up to a nasty cut across the
hand which thus explained the whole thing, as he had been sitting
on that spot some time and then gone off down the hill side to look
for water to bathe it. But for those few minutes we were much
puzzled by the unpleasantly suggestive “mystery.” ‘There was a
fine rubber tree (gutta rian) close by here, and the Dayaks pointed
out several of one kind and another on our journey; these tracts of
virgin jungle must still be very rich in this kind of produce, as
natives from down-river seldom venture so far as this, and the
scattered inhabitants only work sufficient to meet their immediate
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wants, i.e., enough to pay the annual tax of $2 to Government and
to support them on the rare occasion of a visit to a bazaar down-
river or on the coast.
Our path led down to a tongue of land formed by the junction
of two streams, both called Kri according to Penribut, alt. 2850 ft.
Crossed and camped on the right bank, just succeeding in erecting
the huts before the rain came on. Examined the provisions with
Belulok and find they have enough for four days more. Cheery
prospect, seeing that we are not at Batu Lawi yet and that we have
taken six days to come so far. However there are some sago palms
near by, which they will have to utilize together with any animals
we may shoot. ,
May 28th: (Temp. 7 a.m. 70°). We ascend the hill behind
our camp and then descend almost immediately to another stream,
the Limbang again, alt. 2,630 ft., only much smaller than when
last we saw it at the kuala Madihit. There was a good deal of
water running and we crossed with some difficulty having a very
stiff scramble up the high precipitous bank on the other side,
followed immediately by a weary toil up a thousand feet and down
again to yet another stream, the Palabar, alt. 2,700 ft. Most of us
had good cause to remember that steep climb up from the Limbang
as we had to pass a hornet’s nest. I was bitten through the sleeve
of my coat and had a swollen arm for the next two days; several
of the others suffered too.
The natives of this part refer to the Limbang as the Pa (River)
Brunei and I[ was told that formerly the main outlet was through
Brunei; this has become more or less silted up and only a narrow
ditch remains, while the river has taken a sharp bend to the East,
flowing out into Brunei Bay at the Limbang mouth, as we now
know it. Batu Lawi should be very near new and with every hope
of being on it before night-fall we cross the siream and start
another steep ascent for the most part pathless, eventually reaching
an altitude of 4,400 ft. where we have to camp as we are doubtful
of finding any water further up. The last hour or so in pouring
rain, and rather than stand about getting cold, Belulok, a Dayak
and I continue the ascent, leaving the others to make our shelters
for the night. From the occasional glimpses we have had of Batu
Lawi I thought we were actually on the lower slopes of it, but
Belulok thought otherwise and so it proved, for a rough scramble
up roots and moss-grown boulders brought us to the summit
4.850 ft. and ihere just opposite to us with a broad ravine between
stood Batu Lawi emerging for a moment through the driving
clouds. From St. John’s map I take this mountain to be Selinguid,
though none of our people know that name and the Kalabits profess
all ignorance of the name of the mountain. |It struck me after-
wards that it was possibly no sheer “cussedness” that made the
Kalabits refuse to utter the names of these places for my inform-
ation, but more likely that they held the place in such awe that
mere mention of its name would bring disaster. Thus many
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natives in Sarawak when asked will not give the name of their
destination (i.c., if it entails a lengthy and perhaps perilous
journey), tor fear of exciting the wrath of the guardian spirit of
that place, so they refer to it in very roundabout terms. The name
Batu Lawi was hardly if ever mentioned (except by me) during the
days we approached it, and | noticed that the Tabuns did not seem
much surprised at the absence of any known name for Selinguid.
The superstition is | suppose much the same as that which forbids
a Sea-Dayak to mention the names of his parents-in-law and those
of their relations; or to give his own name when asked. In this
latter instance he usually turns to a friend with a nod as much as
to say “Tell him my name, he doesnt know our customs or he
would not have asked me.” Many have their names very con-
veniently tatooed on their fore-arms, so that when one wishes to ask
this awkward question and no friend is near to help, the arm may
be produced for the silent inspection of the questioner J.
The summit of Selinguid ts bare of all trees and only covered
with a tangled mass of shrubs and moss which effectiv ely cover some
splendid pitfalls between huge great blocks of stone. Batu Lawi
was close enough to enable us to make out individual trees and the
perpendicular stratification of the 10cks; the lower of the two peaks
looks easily climbable, but 1 doubt the possibility of being able to
climb the higher one, which rose sheer tor some six hundred like a
chimney . practically bare of all vegetation. It bore due East of
Selinguid and this accounts for our mistaking Selinguid for the
lower “slopes of Batu Lawi, when trying to make out the lay of the
land through the trees on Mt. Derian due wert of us. Thick clouds
develop into heavy rain and we decend to the camp arriving just
before dark, after a weary day of nearly ten hours’ walking. The
beautiful cool climate and mountain aiv however allow one to do it
without feeling anything but healthy fatigue at the end of the
day, which all passes off ‘after a sound sleep in a really cold night.
At dusk the thermometer eee 63° in the shade.
May 29th: (Temp. at 7 a.m. 64°). Left our camp about 8
oclock with 14 men to get fo Batu Lawi; the others staying behind
to recover from their several ailments (cold, fever, cuts, sore feet,
etc.) and to do some collecting. As the summit of Selinguid rose
between us, we had to make a detour round the southern slope be-
fore reaching the narrow valley which runs north and south be-
tween the two mountains. This entailed some very difficult going
through pathless jungle of quite a different character to that on
the other side of the mountain where our camp was situated.
There we were hidden in the usual type of virgin jungle, viz.
enormous high trees with interlacing branches forming a canopy
far over our heads, and down below a thin growth which was not
difficult to walk through. This new type of jungle on the southern
and eastern slopes of Selinguid (including the summit) consisted
of low-growing gnarled shrubs rarely more than ten feet high;
these in turn were covered in thick moss especially round the roots
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which twisted and turned round and across great blocks of lme-
stone, the whole forming one long and wearisome series of ob-
stacles, each in itself a delightfully uncertain danger. ‘Thus one
false step and down would go one leg to unknown depths; then a
slippery root would resent the unaccustomed weight of a human
being and down some-body else would go through this treacherous
floor. One Murut in front of me disappeared entirely just as if
the ground had opened to receive him; luckily however he landed
on a rock some eight feet below and came to no harm. We struggled
through this down to the bottom of the ravine where a lovely moun-
tain stream, the Palabar again, came rushing down in a south-
westerly direction dividing the two mountains.
Across this and we were on Batu Lawi at last, alt. 3,740 ft.
The same kind of growth made our progress very slow for
the first part up the other side; but this soon changed to the
the higher kind of jungle, so we moved on quicker to a ridge
on which we eventually camped a little after midday at an
altitude of 4,900 ft. (temp. 65° in the shade). We passed
some likely looking places for rhinoceros and at one _ place
found some fairly fresh traces of one. The WKalabits say they are
always to be found on the eastern side of Batu Lawi. Penans are
said to get them with their sumpitan (blow-pipes), which seemed
to me incredible considering the delicate nature of the darts they
use and the thick hide of the rhino, but the Tabuns assured me
that it was so and some Penans I met later confirmed it. After
a short meal, a Dayak and I continued the ascent, reaching an
altitude of 5,660 ft. on the southern end of Batu Lawi. ‘Thick
clouds alternating with driving rain destroyed all chances of a
view and we descended again to the lancho on the ridge below.
May 30th: (7.30 a.m. temp. 64°). Ascend again this morning
with some 9 or 10 natives, Penribut, Belulok and Madu among
them; this time keeping along below the place where we ascended
yesterday, we followed a narrow ledge of rock which brought us to
a point below the gap between the two peaks. A sheer drop of some
two or three hundred feet here faced us, and above us a slippery
rock face with but httle vegetation; two Dayaks made use of a
loose root and pulled themselves up a little bit higher, but I stayed
on the ledge with the others ‘not liking to risk it in the rain which
made everything so dangerously slippery. ‘The height of the ledge
was 0,660 ft. and the temperature 69° between 9 and 10 a.m.
We waited there for some time hoping to get a view, but the clouds
only allowed us a glimpse of the high peak towering above us—
another 600 feet at most I calculated. The lower peak could
certainly be climbed without difficulty from the southern end, but
that sheer column—the higher peak—seemed to present a very
difficult problem.
We saw tracks of some small mammals, a tiger-cat according
to the natives, and I noticed but one butterfly (an Hesperid, pro-
bably Bibasis uniformis, Elwes), otherwise the absence of aninial
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life was remarkable. We were certainly unfortunate in striking a
particularly wet 24 hours on the mountain which partly ac-
cuonted for this dearth no doubt, but I imagine that dense humidity
was the rule rather than the exception up there, so that animal life
was probably not encouraged to flourish. ‘The actual rock com-
mences at 5,250 ft. We returned to our lancho, packed up our few
belongings and made our way slowly down the hill; then up through
that unpleasant tangled growth the other side and so back to our
old camp on Selinguid, arriving just after dark tired out. The
collectors had shot some interesting birds in our absence and
captured several insects new to me.
May 31st: Climb up to the top of Selinguid again this
morning and at last enjoy a splendid view of the country all round,
Take some photographs of Batu Lawi [unfortunately ‘all failures
owing to lack of sufficient precautions against the excessive damp |.
Butterflies plentiful on the top and we spend most of the day up
there. ‘Two Dayaks follow the ridge along the top and across a
narrow ravine on the northern side and so on to the northern end of
Batu Lawi. ‘They returned at nightfall and report it much easier
gvoing than the route used by us yesterday; they succeeded in
reaching the foot of the higher peak, but were unable to climb this.
The top of Selinguid extends some 300 yards in a north- easterly
direction, narrow ‘and more or less flat although the growth on the
top makes it difficult to move. In a secluded spot away from our
butterfly-collectors I found two of our Dayaks making themselves
comfortable for a pleasant morning nap; they were in the hopes of
obtaining fortunate dreams, as the tops of high mountains are
always said to be infested by spirits and the chances of experiencing
an important dream in this hallowed spot were too good to be
missed. I left them to their occupation with instructions to report
if the dreams were favourable so that I might then turn them on
to a little collecting which would in that case be undoubtedly pro-
fitable.
June 1st: Food has run very short and we leave about 7
a.m. on the return journey, after catching the Dayaks in an attempt
at leaving with particularly light burdens. These Pandan
Dayaks pete e been more trouble than use on the whole—always last
and lagging, wanting to stop first, and making a fuss over the
smallest hardship. The Saribas Dayaks with me are very different,
cheerfully doing more than their due share of hard work. ‘'The
Tabuns and Murtus give no trouble under Belulok, and the Kala-
bits under Penribut usually do what they are told without much
persuasion. A lot depends on their headmen and I am unlucky in
the head of these eleven Pandaruan Dayaks. However they are
in the minority and with a few suggestive remarks at their expense
we start, the baggage evenly divided. Our pace down hill is very
different to that when struggling up and we get down to the
Palabar and over the steep bit and down again “to the Limbang
again before very long. Here we find the river has risen consider-
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ably and we have to spend some time felling trees in order to bridge
it. Later we pass our former camp at the junction of the two
rivers Kri and then begins that long toi! up the further Kri, which
has also risen slightly to impede us. We reach our old camp on
Mt. Derian about 6 p.m. and stragglers came in later with torches.
One Dayak fell out and had to be carried in the last mile. ‘The
natives had left a little rice here ou the way out and we enjoyed a
much-wanted meal after a strenuous day’s work. I had eaten a
little at midday, but many of them had finished their food in the
morning before we started and so had gone without any more till
this evening. ‘Ihe Dayaks were accused of commandeering halt
the Tabuns’ deposit of rice, while the latter were not looking;
however they apparently had enough to satisfy their wants and I
was far too tired to go into the matter.
June 2nd: (6.30 a.m. temp. 62°). Another long day’s walk
from Mt. Derian down to our old camp above the Rapaw stream,
thus accomplishing two day’s journey in one. Luckily it has ee
moderately fine all to-day and yesterday, except for a slight showe1
about 2 o'clock. But still dampness is part and parcel of travel
in Borneo and the day’s journey is very often commenced by ford-
ing a stream waist -high, or failing that one is soon wet through
from perspiration, so that a shower or two of rain does not make
much difference. I very often used to bathe just as I stood in my
clothes if we came to a tempting stream or waterfall, and never
seemed to derive any harm from it.
June 3rd. Soon after leaving camp this morning we came
to a small opening on our right from which we can get a last sight
of Batu Lawi (excepting the view of the top of the higher peak
to be seen from Penribut’s heuse). The following sketch gives
an idea of it; the sloping line at the base indicating the line of the
Turan-Derian range which cuts off all view of Mt. “Selinguid lying
between it and the lower slopes of Batu Lawi. The base of Batu
Lawi (taking the Palabar stream which flows between it and
Selinguid as the base line) is some 3,500 ft. above the sea-level
and the mountain itself rises about 2, 700 ft. higher. Approx-
imately 1,000 ft. of the mountain are visible in the sketch.
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We reach the Madihit again about 11 o’clock and after a re-
freshing bathe and a meal proceed on to Penribut’s house arriving
a little after 3 p.m., most of the natives done up after the lsat three
days hard walking on short commons; I too was quite glad of a
LeSv.
They told us that Tama Belulok had returned home after
staying four days longer in the house. A new report has come in
to the ‘effect that only. two men of Oyau Blawing’s house have died,
not the whole house except five as first reported ! They also report
that a Dutch controlleur and his servant. have been killed by one
Maalin of Long Krian not far from the head-waters of the Baram.
June 4th. Spent the anniversary of King George the Third’s
birthday in Penribut’s house settling up w ith the natives. The
usual wage recognized by the Government in this district is 30
cents a day and it takes some time working out the amount due to
each man, as so many have joined me at different dates. We have
to settle up here as | am sending the Pandaruan Dayaks, the Dayak
collectors and some of the Muruts back by the way we came, 1.e.,
down the Madihit and the Limbang, while I intend going round the
southern end of Mt. Molu to join the tributaries of the Baram river
and so down to the Government station (Claudetown) on that river.
This round has never been done before and further travelling
among strange tribes will sure to prove interesting. Only Belulok,
another ‘Tabun, Madu and the cook are to accompany me with a
few Kalabits to help carry our baggage.
Having no money with me, series of I. O. U’s. have to be
issued in the duly approved and very convenient way of the Glorious
East. As a matter of fact money is of little or no use to the natives
up here unless they make the journey to the coast where they can
exchange it for goods of more value in their eyes, viz. beads, jars,
gongs, gun- _powder, etc. These chits of mine will therefore be kept
till they go down river, when they will be duly honoured at the
Government station. Being entirely enable to read or write, these
up-river natives have a great respect for anything in the way of a
printed or written note, and Mr. Ermen, the Government Officer
then in charge of this district, had kindly given me two or three
printed Government “surat panggil” (Government summons
forms) to use in case a having difliculties in obtaining coolies. But
so far I have not had occasion to use any. Belulok asked my
assistance in recovering a debt of one buffalo and a quantity of
rubber from a Kalabit here, who, he said, had been owing him
that for some time. Of course I had no power to do anything of
the sort and told him so; but he said be quite understood that and
all he wanted was an all-powerful “ surat ”—it did’nt matter what,
any scrap of paper with some writing on it would do, he said, as
the Kalabit could not read (nor could he for the matter of that )—
so I gave him an old envelope which bore my name and address and
with this talisman he succeeded in recovering a certain amount
of rubber ($20 or $30 worth) there and then! What wicked un-
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truths he saw fit to tell about the power of the surat I did not
inquire about. Some of my belongings have been left at Pun-
bawang’s house, and Lawaratu and his men go off to get it; they
agree to take it straight to the Seridan river, our next objective;
while another Kalabit goes off to arrange for a boat to meet us on
the Seridan.
In the evening we have a little rifle practice on an old tree
some hundred yards from the house. The Kalabits are much
atonished at the penetration of the bullets which they carefully
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in such surroundings one sees perhaps the best phase of Man in
relation to Nature.
In our large company of some 40 men there was one young
Kalabit girl who, I learnt from Balang Katou, was a slave. She
seemed a happy little party, rather pretty for a Kalabit, and always
did her fair share of the work, paddling along in the middle of
one of the boats, cooking, when we stop for the night, and later
we saw her carrying a load of rubber through the jungle towards
the Sidam. Several of these up-river tribes still keep slaves, and
we had three or four with us on the walk to Batu Lawi, they being
sent in place of their masters who had pleaded other engagements.
It was some days before I knew that any of our coolies were really
slaves and indeed from their treatment of one another it was quite
impossible to guess which were slaves and which were not. Masters
and slaves ate, slept, conversed or joked together with equal free-
dom ; I was told that they usually become slaves owing to the death
of their parents when quite young, so that they are left without
anyone to look after them. If the child appears to be healthy
a well-to-do native will buy him from his nearest relative and he
thus becomes a slave. They do not ill-treat their slaves, for, as
Belulok observed, it was’nt worth while to do so, since they would
only run away and the money expended in their purchase would
thus be thrown away. ‘The system seems more on a parallel with
that so common nowadays among the Chinese; for with that race,
when a family is becoming too large, one of the later additions is
sold to a friend to bring up as his own child, and the relationship
between the child and the purchaser is probably much the same in
each case. Among the Kalabits however I gathered that the slaves
and their owners belonged to different classes, and that inter-
marriage between the two was very rare.
June 9th. Weft early this morning climbing the hill at the
back of our camp and followed a well-worn winding path until
midday when we came to a little camp occupied by two Brunei-
Malays and some Dayaks. The Dayaks were carrying gutta across
for them, in this way wiping off their debts to the Malays. These
Dayaks had been working gutta for several months in the Batu
Lawi district and they had got as far as Balang Katou’s house on
the return journey. There they met the Brunei traders, to whom
they sold most of their gutta; they lived a whole year in the Kalabit
house, helping the Kalabits on their farms and so earning their
keep, ‘but at the same time running further and further into debt
with the Bruneis, who ran a fine business among the Kalabits alone.
I believe nearly all the Kalabits of that district owed the Bruneis
a certain amount, and this in spite of the 40 odd pikuls of gutta
that they and the Dayaks had paid the Bruneis in return
for bazaar goods. The Kalabits too were working off their debts
by carrying loads of gutta across to the Sidam.
After a short rest and some food we followed a narrow water-
course on through the jungle down to the head of the Sidam proper,
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which we found nearly dry. The Bruneis had built a little hut
here and had been waiting from some 6 days to get all their gutta
across. ‘They had two small canoes and two large boats here, but
could not use them yet owing to the lack of water in the stream; I
persuaded them to lend me one of the small boats and intended
trying to continue the journey in her to-morrow.
June 10th. A little rain last night has caused the Sidam to
rise slightly, but still hardly enough to float our small canoe.
Only four of us can get in,—a Brunei, Belulok, Madu and myself,
—the others are going to walk across to the Melana river and wait
there till we can send up a boat to fetch them from the nearest Ka-
yan house. ‘The first hour is spent in wading down the Sidam and
dragging the boat over the rocks; the boat which is very old and
rotten resents this treatment and wearily sinks at the first stretch
of deep water we come to. A large piece out of the bottom
is the cause and we find it is far too bad to mend, so have to leave
it there and rescue the cargo, luckily very little, as we had only
brought bare necessities for two nights, leaving the rest to be
carried overland to the Melana. Returned to our hut at Long
Teborror about 11 o’clock and discussed what was the next thing
to be done. Our immediate objective was a large Kayan house
on the Apoh river; once there we could be passed on from house
to house down the Apoh river and eventually into the Baram River,
ending at Claudetown. ‘The only way to get to that Kayan house
was to paddle down the Sidam stream and thence on down the
Melana which joined the Apoh river quite close to the house; this
was roughly two days’ journey. Unfortunately the Sidam was too
dry to float the only sound boats, so there seemed to be nothing for
it but to stay and wait till sufficient rain fell to make it rise.
There was a path across country to the Melana, but that did not
help because there was no means of reaching or communicating
with the Kayan house some 6 hours further on down river without
a boat. Eventually one of the Bruneis offered to try and take his
small canoe, which would just hold himself and one companion,
down the Sidam and Melana to call the Kayans up to fetch us,
if we would walk across to the Melana and wait for them there.
The Kalabits were none too pleased over this as they thought their
part of conveying my things was finished, however I had to take
some of them on and we persuaded three wandering Penans to help.
A little party of six of these strange people arrived in the evening,
a very old couple, a young man and girl and two children; clothing
as usual of the scantiest nature, the women in just a short skirt and
the men with chawats (loin cloths). Their pale skins contrasted
strongly with those of the brown Kalabits, Muruts and Dayaks.
They seemed very shy and a little frightened at having run into
such a large party. I understood from Belulok that a Penan had
lately shot a Kayan with a poisoned dart and that consequently all
the Penans of this district were rather fearing a wholesale revenge.
However we reassured them and the old couple and the young ms:
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agreed to come with me to-morrow, not that the two former are
likely to be of any use as carriers, but they are curious, never
having seen a white man before, and wish to do the journey to the
Melana with us; also I think the young man would not come
without them. Belulok understands their language, but few of
the Kalabits do. They excite a certain amount of admiration on
the part of the Kalabits on account of their hard life, wandering
for ever homeless in the jungle, depending on jungle produce alone
for their sustenance. The wild sago palm is their chief support
to which they add anything they can gain with their blow-pipe.
They would’nt come up into our huts but stood quietly outside in
the rain, with their loads on their backs, making arrangements for
to-morrow. I served out cigarettes and biscuits which were received
with a slow smile of thanks. The phrase “ Thank you,” by the
way, seems unknown among all Sarawak natives, and any gift or
service is always received in silence, but this by no means implies
rudeness or ingratitude, although it looks so like it to a European.
In spite of the rain and approach of night our nomad friends
refused to share our huts and moved off into the jungle to some
favoured spot of their own, promising to be with us again for an
early start to-morrow morning.
Among our Kalabit bearers is a well-built young man, the
slave of one of the up-river chiefs. Unhappily he is both deaf and
dumb, but in spite of this terrible infliction seems wonderfully
quick to understand and make himself understood. His friends
always seemed sympathetically attentive to his wants, although
he was well able to look after himself.
June 11th. We take leave of the Bruneis and set off across
the Sidam under the leadership of a fat Kalabit, one Metaribu, a
pleasant, though somewhat happy-go-lucky, casual gentleman, who
says he thinks he knows the way having done the journey once
before some three years ago. The others do not seem to think
anything of trusting themselves to his guidance, though I express
my doubts as to his ability to remember it after such a long time.
Belulok laughs scornfully, “ of course he knows the path, if he has
been along it once;” and somehow Metaribu brings us through,
now along a winding pig-track, now down some dried water-course,
up another, across a succession of short steep hills, across one
stream and down another, in and out of a maze of jungle and
eventually late in the evening down to the banks of the Melana.
As its name implies it was the blackest river we have come across
so far, in great contrast to the beautiful clear waters of the
mountain streams we passed from the Madihit to Batu Lawi. I
asked Belulok if he knew the meaning of the name Melana, but
he did not know nor was he able to give me a clue to the native Pro-
fessor of Greek who (presumably) had named it thus. We passed
several shelters used by other Penans evidently quite recently, we
all enjoyed a refreshing bathe in the black waters of the Melana,
except the Penans, who, true to Belulok’s description of them some
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weeks ago, never washed except in the rain. Built our lanchos on
the left bank and slept the sleep of the just after a tiring day’s
walk, undisturbed by countless sandflies and mosquitoes.
June 12th. After an early breakfast we continue the walk
with the idea of cutting across two large bends of the river and
joining it again some way lower down at a place called kuala Leppu \\
Penyu. A little over two hours walk sufficed to bring us to that
point and we sat down on a pebbly beach by the river side to wait
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return so I pay them off with three fathoms of black cloth (enough a
for one chawat), 4 cigarettes each and some salt. My stock of i
tobacco ran out some days ago. ‘The young Penan showed us how iy
to use the sumpitan (blow-pipe), kneeling on one knee and slightly i
leaning forward as he shot at some flowers in a tree some height |
above us. He had some 400 thin rotan rings on his legs and arms,
many ornamented with three or four small beads. He gave me
5 as a keepsake; then they set off, after mutual expressions of
friendship and goodwill duly interpreted by Belulok, and quickly
disappeared into the depths of their jungle home.
‘The sun steadily rose and in spite of a refreshing bathe in the
river it became excessively hot sitting waiting on the bank. I
watched with interest some of our Kalabits squatting on the
ground busily engaged in going over one another’s heads for
fleas! Very like monkeys in this work, although they kept their
mouths still instead of exercising them in the chattering- movement
of monkeys. Any ‘game’ collected was solemnly handed over to
the owner of the ‘ preserve, who promptly bit it but did not swallow
it. I chaffed Belulok on being found to be the owner of four. He
laughed, and asked what could one expect after living in Kalabit
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nights in Penribut’s house, with rats gnawing at one’s fect, dogs Y
and fowls crawling over one, not to mention a continual irritation
from bugs and fleas! (
After an hour or so we were rejoiced to sce a small boat being ’
poled up to meet us by three men; they turned out to be Kayans I
coming up to fish, and they reported having passed the Bruneis a i
little way lower down, so we mush have reached this place only just f
after the Bruneis had passed. We begged some tobacco off these three
first, and then sent them off to fetch their companions, some of |
whom were fishing a little way off, while two others were hunting
deer with the assistance of a small pack of pariahs. About one ,
o’clock they arrived with two more small canoes and we squeezed \
our little party in and paddled on gently down the Melana, occasion-
ally stopping to pull the boats over a small rapid. Some four
hours later we reached the Apoh river and landed at a long Kayan |
house on the left bank of the Apoh, a shot distance above the
entrance to the Melana. We are cordially welcomed by the chief, |
a fine broad-chested Kayan, Buoy Won by name, who leads us up !
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to a Chinaman’s house close by, apologizing profusely for not being
able to receive us properly as his own house is pantang (taboo)
owing to the planting season. He tells me that I was extremely
lucky to fall in with his men up-river to-day as this is the first
day for a month that they have been allowed out, the taboo being
nearly over. We ask the Chinaman if he has heard of any steamer
coming to Claudetown and he tells us one arrived twelve days ago
and that they were expecting another in three or four days time,
so with any luck we ought to just get down in time to catch it.
Mt. Molu lies to the north-east of us and we had a fine view of
it across a comparatively flat piece of country, stretching away at
the back of the Chinaman’s house. ‘This is the first time we have
had any view at all since leaving Penribut’s house; the jungle
invariably preventing all possibility of seeing any distance, al-
though the lower part of the Melana showed more open country
with mud banks along the water’s edge instead of rocks and narrow
gorges.
Buoy Won explained how it was impossible for him to supply me
with boat and crew for the journey on down river to-morrow owing
to his house being pantang, but that he would be very pleased to do
so if I would’nt mind waiting two more days, so that he could spend
one looking for an omen and another day to wait after having
obtained it (as that was their custom), and then we could start on
the third. However I thought that delay would probably make us
miss the steamer, so we decided to send for a crew from another
long house an hour or two down-river. Belulok, the chief of these
people—a Sebop tribe, Long Watts, as they are called, arrived a
little after midnight in pouring rain; and Buoy Won came in too;
most of my party had been asleep for some time, but we got up
and dispensed gin and tobacco, and then discussed the important
question of getting off to-morrow; apparently the Long Watts had
a small taboo on too, however Buoy Won, anxious to get rid of me,
emphasized my importance as a Government official and explained
how necessary it was to help me in any way possible, so we at last
turned in again about 2 a.m., the Long Watts having promised to
have a boat and crew ready if Buoy Won’s people would paddle me
down to their house at dayhght.
Mr. Douglas, the resident in charge of this large district, makes
it clearly understood that anything to do with Government has to
be attended to promptly, regardless of dreams, omens or taboos;
although, as Buoy Won told me, he always takes care to ask if such
and such a date and month will suit the natives, before arranging any
big expedition which would require a lot of men. In this way,
letters, verbal messages, or single travellers like myself with but
five natives, get passed on from house to house like hot cakes.
passed on from house to house like hot cakes.
June 13th. Buoy Won insisted on supplying us with rice for
our journey, obtaining it from the Chinaman whom he promised to
pay later. Although he had plenty in his own house, the taboo did
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not allow him to give us any, nor for the same reason could I or any
other stranger go up into his house. This by the way was an
exceptionally long one, consisting of some ninety doors built some
thirty yards back from the bank of the river. Large wooden tiles
were used for the roof and the large solid bilian posts supporting
the house were of a very different nature to the flimsy structures
made by the Kalabits on the Madihit.
An hour’s paddling brought us to Belulok’s house and I went
up to talk to him while they were preparing the boat. ‘This is
another long house built on the same solid lines as Buoy Won’s.
Belulok asked one of our party for some small present which as
far as I could understand, he wanted as a kind of propitiatory
offering for having caused the Long Watts to break through their
taboo. He said it did not matter what form the offering took,
only it must not be broken or damaged in any way; so one of my
party offered a parang which seemed to meet the requirements of
the case all right. ‘The old chief apologized courteously for having
asked for it, but explained that it was their custom under the
circumstances, and the natives with me seemed to regard it as a
natural request. We started off after a short delay, in their best
racing boat, a fine long boat some 70 feet long with 18 Long Watts
for a crew. When we were in, baggage and all, there was a bare
inch of free board, but she was beautifully steady and the long
gliding motion as they steadily paddled us down the Apoh was
delightful. We stopped about one o’clock for a meal on the bank,
and then continued till dark. We had to stop then, as it was too
dangerous to try and shoot the rapids in the dark, although there
were none very bad to pass. About nine the moon rose over the
tree-tops by the water’s edge and we were soon on the move again,
reaching a long house at Batu Bla just at break of day. We are
now in the Tutau river again, which, it may be remembered, is the
same river that we ascended behind Mt. Molu up to Long Mutan.
June 14th. Most of the inhabitants of this long house were
away and it was with some difficulty that the chief managed to get
a boat for us to continue the journey. Our friends the Long Watts
began the return journey up-river after resting an hour or so only.
We had taken eighteen hours to come down and they expected to
get back in two nights.
We spent a tedious day being passed on from house to house,
doing an hour’s journey with some I.ong Kiputs, then another
stretch of two or three hours in a Bukit boat. By nightfall we had
reached the main Baram river and later passed the mouth of the
Tinjar river.
June 15ih. 2.30 am. we draw up alongside the wharf of
Claudetown; our first thought is for the steamer from Kuching, has
she come and gone, or not yet arrived? We are told that it is all
right, the last one left a fortnight ago and they are expecting
another in any day now. After a few hours sleep in the Fort I pay
an early call on Mr. H. 8S. B. Johnson, the Acting Resident in
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charge of the station and realize the pleasure of meeting a European
once more and talking nglish again after forty days wandering,
with natives only for. companions. ‘he ordinary common-places
of civilization all appear unusually attractive; sitting on a chair
to a meal laid out on a lable! Having a bed to sleep. in! Veget-
ables, bread, butter, etc., to eat!! European papers to read—true
they are six weeks old, but still new to me! It is quite curious to
feel such appreciation for what one is accustomed to regard more
or less as the necessities of life.
July 13th. After a pleasant, peaceful four weeks spent here
enjoying the kind hospitality of Mr. Johnson, the daily expected
steamer has at last arrived and we are to sail for Kuching to-
morrow.
July 14th. Left at 11 a.m. and reached the mouth of the
Baram river that evening; there is rather a swell on outside and
it is doubtful whether we can get over the bar to-morrow; we go
ashore and enjoy a refreshing bathe in the sea, then climb to the
top of the hght-house in time to watch a magnificent sunset.
July 15th. ‘Too rough to get ovt at Ligh tide this morning,
so we have to put off all hopes of leaving till to-morrow. The bar
of this river is particularly shallow, so that during the north-east
monsoon no steamer can get in at all: even in the fine months of
the year the steamers often have {o wait for several days before
getting in or out; once a whole month was spent by a steamer
waiting patiently outside for a calm day to get in to the river!
July 16th. Safely over the bar this morning, and the sea nice
and calm, promising a fair passage to Ikuching which we should
reach in 36 hours.
July 17th. Arrived in Kuching shortly after midday after
an absence of two months and a half. Tue collectors had arrived
from Limbang some ten days before. ‘They had had a quick passage
down the Limbang and had been able to spend five days collecting
at the kuala Salindong. Then they had finished the journey on
down to the Government station at Limbang and after a weck’s
wait there had caught a steamer for Kuching arriving some ten
days before us.
ConcLuDING NOTE.
Perhaps a word of apology for the length of my narrative is
due to the reader who has had the patience to follow me thus far,
since after all, the journey described was certainly of less interest
than many others of a similar nature accomplished every year by
Europeans among uncivilized tribes in varicus parts of the world.
and the necessary details could no doubt have been confined to a
tenth part of the space now occupied by my narrative. I have not
tried to condense it this manner for two reasons principally :— (i)
because I believe that the only way in which our knowledge of
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strange natives and their ways of life can be materially increased
is by. the constant publication of a large number of apparently
trifling observations collected by men who have spent many years
among natives, by men who know their language, their customs to
a certain extent, and more important, by men who know the natives
sufficiently well to be able to attach a fairly correct value to inform-
ation received from them. And here let me at once hasten to deny
all claim for inyself to be in such a position so that my observations
on native life are of any real importance. My excuse for appearing
to take up that position is that this Journal is probably read by men
in the East more than by men in Europe, and my article will more
than serve its purpose, if, after reading the small details of interest
I have recorded, men of long experience in the East can be induced
to publish the trustw orthy records of their own travels and obser-
vations, which are of such infinitely higher value than the “ ex-
periences ” published year by year by hurrying globe-trotters, for
whom a week in one country is found sufficient fo enable them to
write a book thereon. (ii) The details of places and native houses,
I have hoped will some day be of interest to others who may make
a journey to that region. Sir Spenser St. John’s book, which I
earried with me, consulting it nearly every day I found most useful
and interesting for that purpose. His map was particularly useful
and trustworthy : I regret that mine, based on very limited obser-
vations, is no more than a very rough ‘ sketch map,’ only difficult
to indicate the journey accomplished.
The collections made were regrettably small, although in spite
of that, surprisingly rich in new and rare species, which clearly
indicates the interesting and little known nature of the fauna and
flora of that region. The hurried character of the expedition may
be understood by the following brief summary, which explains the
lack of opportunity for any “steady collecting. In the 40 days’
journey from the Government station at Limbang to the Govern-
ment station of Baram (Claudetown) 31 were “spent in actual
travelling; or to put it another way, we slept two consecutive nights
in the same place on five occasions and once for three consecutive
nights. ‘The river journey occupied 10 days (excluding a day spent
at the kuala Madalam and another at the kuala Madihit), the walk
in the mountainous region occupied 12 days excluding three days
spent at Penribut’s house, one on Mt. Derian and one on Mt. Selin-
guid. My return journey to Baram took 4 days to walk and 5 days
in boats.
Unfortunately the Madihit district is very sparsely populated
and for that reason we were unable to procure enough coolies to
carry provisions sufficient for any length of time; between the
Madihit ( ee house) and Batu Lawi there are no natives
and we were away 13 days without seeing anyone except the mem-
bers of our party. Again from the Murut ‘house just above the
kuala Madalam up to the kuala Madihit, there are also no houses
and we were travelling the best part of four days without meeting
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anyone. On the return journey there was a similar large gap
between the Mago and the Apoh rivers (5 days’ journey) without
any native habitations, except the temporary shelters occupied by
the nomad Penans. If the district had been more populous it
would have been possible to arrange for relays of coolies to follow
us to Batu Lawi every week or so with fresh provisions, but as it
was, the small Kalabit houses in the Madihit were barely sufficient
to provide us with carriers for the bare journey to Batu Lawi and
back.
The general health of the expedition was by no means good.
In the mountainous region, the natives in their scanty clothing
felt the cold considerably although they used to keep fires going all
night; but this availed little in the continual dampness. Many
developed fever and bad colds, while I had to treat stomach dis-
orders, cuts and bruises very frequently. The shortage of food on
the return journey was a further hardship. Nevertheless they bore
their troubles well and usually managed to raise a laugh at some
enlivening sally from poor, ever-cheerful Madu, my much regretted
Land- Dayak boy. I was fortunate enough to keep in excellent
health the whole time and thoroughly enjoyed the invigorating
mountain air.
I must not conclude without a word of recognition of one of
the pleasantest and at the same time most instructive features of
the whole expedition; that was the invarizble welcome and cour-
teous hospitality always extended to us at every house; and
reflecting on the diversity of tribes we met, viz. —Bruneis , Bisayas,
Dayaks, “Tabuns, Adangs, Kalabits, Penans , Kayans, Long Watts,
Long Kiputs and Bukits, not forgetting some Chinese traders—it
speaks much for the wide- spread nature of good feeling among
the natives of those districts towards the white man’s rule in
Sarawak. Long may it remain so!
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APPENDEX §.
Some Plants Collected on Mr. Moulton’s expedition to
Batu Lawi.
seein NE RILEY, O:ahG., ERS: BEC.
The little collection sent by Mr. Moulton contains some plants
of considerable interest. Notably perhaps the Rhododendrons.
Borneo appears to be quite rich in these beautiful plants, of which
the collection contains no less than seven; of these one is a Kina-
balu, species, 2. cuneifolium, Stapf., and another is not distinguish-
able from R. jasminiflorum, Stapf., of the Malay Peninsula. The
connection of this flora with that of Mt. WKinabalu is further
evidenced by the presence of Pentaphragma aurantiaca, Stapf.,
previously only known also from that mountain. The remainder
of the plants are typical mountain species of Borneo, except Bau-
hinia Finlaysoniana, Grah., a rather rare Malay Peninsula species.
MELIACEAE.
1. Aglaia laxiflora, Mig. Salindong, Ulu Limbang. 10.6.11.
LEGUMINOSAE.
2. Bauhima Finlaysoniana, Grah. Salindong, Ulu Limbang.
HOLGLLE.
MELASTOMACEAE.
Anerincleistus (Allomorphia) cordatus, (Stapt.). Batu Law1,*
Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11.
4+. Sonerila nodulosa, n. sp. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. May,
Oe
Stem woody, branched, dark brown with short protuber-
ances from which the leaves have sprung. Whole plant 6
inches tall, leaves at the ends of the branches crowded, small,
ovate, lanceolate, narrowed at the base and apex, herbaceous,
glabrous, strongly spinulose, dentate, half an inch long, a
quarter of an inch wide, petiole slender, $ inch long. Flowers
small in terminal cymes, in smooth peduncles an inch long.
Bracts persistent setaceous. Calyx narrow funnel-shaped
with 5 short lanceolate acuminate lobes, } inch long. Petals
lanceolate acute pink. Stamens filaments slender, anthers
narrow oblong elliptic, not beaked vellow. Capsules on
pedicels 4 inch long, top + inch wide, broadly funnel-shaped
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%* Plants so labelled were not necessarily taken on Batu Lawi, but in some
cases on Mt. Selinguid. or on the journey between the two mountains which are
divided by a narrow valley.
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smooth polished with broad valves. Perhaps nearest to S.
tenuifolia, Bl., but woody and remarkable for the curious arti-
culations of the leaves, from which a rib runs down on each
side to the next node.
RUBIACEAE,
Lucinaea montana, Worth. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11.
CoMPOSITAR.
Vernonia arborea, Ham. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11.
CAMPANULACEAR.
Pentaphragma aurantiaca, Stapf. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang.
20.0e1 te
WRICACEAE.
Rhododendron jasminiflorum, Took. Batu Lawi, Ulu Lin-
bane. 79 oulble
Rhododendron lanceclatum, n. sp. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang.
Peale:
Shrub, bark brown, leaves lanceolate acuminate acute sub-
sessile, base rounded above smooth shining, nerves 8 or more,
pairs slender, invisible beneath, beneath paler closely dotted,
midrib narrow rounded elevate s slightly, beneath broader, dilate
at base on the upper surface. 3 inches long 14 inch wide,
petiole very short and scurfy. Flowers 5 or more in a head
much shorter than the leaves, with numerous lanceolate
acuminate bracts as long or little longer than the pedicels.
Redicels woolly pubescent 4 inch long. Flowers campanulate
# inch long. Calyx distinctly lobed with short blunt lobes
pubescent. Corolla campanulate with rounded lobes shortly
pointed 2 inch long # inch wide white? Stamens short 4 inch
long, filaments long-woolly at base glabrescent above, anthers
half as long cylindric curved at the tip blunt at both ends.
Pistil conic “woolly, style short wooliy at the base, glabrous at
the tip, stigma capitate. A pretty small flowered species with
scurfy young parts.
Rhododendron orbiculatum, n. sp. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang,
500 fit. - 28.50
Woody epiphyte over 2 feet tall, stem flexuous, internodes
an inch long. Leaves in opposite pairs stiffly coriaceous, al-
most sessile orbicular or elliptic rounded at both ends midrib
deeply sunk above, nerves not very conspicuous 5 or 6 pairs.
1 inch long 2 inches wide. Flowers 4 or 5 in a sessile terminal
corymb pedicels + inch long pubescent. Calyx very small
saucer-shaped. Corolla tube cylindric elabrous 1} inch long,
lobes 1 inch long rounded, half an inch le, Filaments
slender half as long as the lobes, anthers oblong truncate
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slightly narrowed and rounded at the base. Ovary cylindric
narrowed at the tip + inch long, style 15 inch long all pubes-
cent stigma subglobose lobed. Allied to A. jasminiflorum,
Hook, fil. but with larger corolla and orbicular leaves.
Rhododendron crassinervium, n. sp. Batu Lawi; Mt. Derian,
Win: Emmbane. ~ 5.11.
Shrub, branches black, leaves coriaceous elliptic, or oblan-
ceolate blunt narrowed to the base, but base rounded, midrib
very broad at the base narrowing rapidly upwards, side nerves
primary and secondary nearly as conspicuous slender 15-16
pairs, reticulations visible, 6 inches long 24-22 inch wide,
corymb of about 50 flowers on a short thick cone shaped
peduncle 4+ inch long. Pedicels 2 inches long. Calyx flat
saucer-shaped. Corolla 1 inch long and nearly as wide, tube
very short + inch long, cylindric, lobes broad rounded, stamens
short, anthers oblong opening by two large pores, blunt at both
ends. Pistil ellipsoid narrowed at the tip glabrous } inch
long. Style as long with 5 stigmatic lobes. Flower red.
Rhododendron duriomfolium, Bece. Batu Lawi, Ulu Lim-
bane. 28.5.1 1.
Rhododendron cuneifolium, Stapf. Batu Lawi, Ulu Lim-
bang. 29.5.11.
Rhododendron Moultonii, n. sp. Mt. Derian, alt. 4-5000 ft.
May 1911.
Shrub, bark grey, leaves elliptic shortly acuminate sub-
coriaceous, narrowed towards the base and then rounded obtuse,
midrib stout elevate beneath rounded, above depressed, nerves
16 pairs conspicuous interarching within the edge 7 inches
long 3 inches wide, petiole thick + inch long. Flowers very
numerous in a large head on a short thick peduncle } inch long.
Pedicels $ inch long. Calyx short obscurely lobed, corolla
yellow, tube short cylindric 4 inch long lobes 14 inch long sub-
acute. Stamens filaments pubescent, anthers long curved
eylindric nearly } inch long, with 2 conspicuous terminal pores.
Pistil cylindric % inch glabrous style long $ inch. Stigma
capitate clubbed. After the style of R. Teysmanni but with
quite different leaves. :
MYRSINEAR.
Hmbelia buatfolia,n. sp. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11.
Shrub, bark black, young parts apparently glutinous.
Leaves thickly coriaceous elliptic narrowed at the base 4 inch
long § inch wide, apex rounded, nerves invisible above shining,
petiole minute 73 inch long. Raceme of 5 or 6 flowers on
fewer + inch long, scurfy. Flowers minute on pedicels 35 inch
long, calyx lobes 4 suborbicular crenate on the edge very ob-
scurely. Corolla tube very short, lobes much longer oblong
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truncate 4. Stamens with slender filaments on the tube,
anthers elliptic. Pistil glabrous. Allied to #. minutifoia,
Stapf. of Kinabalu but wtih entire not ovate leaves.
SOLANACEAE.
Nicotiana tabacum, Linn. Ulu Limbang. 5.11.
NEPENTHACEAE.
Nepenthes Rafflesiana, Jack. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang.
29.5.11,
Nepenthes Reinwardtiana, Miq. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang.
29.5.11. |
Nepenthes Lowu, Hook. fil. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang.
28.5.11.
CONTFERAE.
Phyllocladus hypsophylla, Took. fil. Batu Lawi, Ulu Lim-
bang. 28.5.11.
Dacrydium beccari, Pilg. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11.
Podocarpus imbricata, Bl. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11.
SCITAMINEAR.
Globba atrosangunea, Teysm. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang.
ws dolld.
Hedychium, sp. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11.
Burbidgea schizocheila, Hook. fil. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang.
oroe alts
Burbidgea nitida, Hook. fil. Mt. Derian, Ulu Limbang. 35.11.
Burbidgea nitida. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 29.5.11.
LILIACEAE.
Dianella, sp. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11.
Musct.
Pogonatum macrophyllum. Mt. Derian, Ulu Limbang. 5.11.
LICHENES.
Collemacea. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 29.5.11.
Cladina rangiferina, Nyl. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11.
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APPENDIX II.
Orchids collected on Mr. Moulton’s expedition to Mt.
Batu Lawi.
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Since Ridley published his enumeration of the Orchideae from
Borneo, many new species have been described and several others
only known from other parts of the Malayan region, have been added
to its flora, but a somewhat satisfactory survey of the Orehid flora
of the large island is still lacking. Every addition is to be re-
garded as a step forward.
The small but interesting collection made by Mr. J. C. Moulton
on Mt. Batu Lawi consists of 18 numbers representing 17 species.
It is to be regretted, that in no less than 7 species the flowers are
in no state good enough to be described. Among the remainder,
7 well marked new species were found.
The genus Hria represents the bulk of the collection, containing
7 species of which 3 belong to the small section Aeridostachya.
The plant I take to be Hria cymbidufolia, Rid)., has elongate,
15-20 em. long, 3-4 leaved stems. The leaves are obliquely sub-
acute or subobtuse, where as Ridley describes them as bilobed. In
the flowers too the description does not entirely suit Mr. Moulton’s
plant. It is nearly related to #. cymbiformis, J. J.S., from Su-
matra, which has, as a plant cultivated in the Buitenzore Botanical
gardens shows, very short 8-10 leaved stems and pubescent inflores-
cences and flowers. It belongs to the section Cymboglossum, as
I think does F. longifolia, Hook. f., H. lawiensis, J. J. 8., is a very
inconspicuous plant of the Trichotosia section.
Coelogyne is represented by 3 species, of which one without
flowers. C. Moulton, J. J. 8., with very large bracts seems to he
the most showy plant of the collection and is allied to C. Dayana,
Rchb. f., O. gibbifera, J. J. 8., is a member of the Lonaifoliae sec-
tion.
The two Dendrobes are both allied to D. crumenatum, Swartz,
with very fugaceous flowers. D. lawiense, J. J. S., is well marked
by the elongate lip.
It is rather remarkable, that the two species of Dendrochilum
belong to the very few representatives of the section Platyclinis
with an elongate rhizome.
The Phajus is very similar to Ph. callosus, Lmdl.. hitherto not
vet recorded from Borneo. he lip is however more cuneate as in
the Javanese specimens and the midlobe smaller. Perhaps it is
another species.
List OF SPECIES.
1. Hria (Sect. Aeridostachya) sp.
®. Kria (Sect. Hymeneria) sp.
3. ria (Sect. Aeridostachya) sp.
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Eria sp.
Eria (Sect. .Aeridostachya) ovilis, J. J. &.
Dendrobium (Sect. Crumenata) fugax, Schltr.
8,9. Dendrobium (Sect. Crumenata) lawiense, J. J. S., n. sp.
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Dendrochilum (Sect. Platyclinis) remctum, J. J. S.. n. sp.
Coelogyne sp.
Coelogyne (Sect. Longifoliae) gibbifera, J. J. S., n. sp.
Appendicula sp.
Eria (Sect. Trichotosia) lawiensis, J. J. 8., n. sp.
Dendrochilum (Sect.Platyclinis) longipes, J. J .S., n. sp.
Bulbophyllum (Sect. Interyallata) sp.
Coelogvhe (Sect. Tomentosae) Moulton, J. J. 8.
Phajus callosus, Lndl. var. or perhaps a new species (at foot
of Batu Lawi, Sungei Palabar).
Descriptions of the new species have been published in the
“Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg,” (Deuxiéme Série
No. ITI. Feb. 1912), and by kind permission of the Director of
that institution are reprinted here together with a few notes trans-
lated from the German.
Coelogyne gibbifera, J. J. S., n. sp.
Rhizoma repens, validiuen, teres, c. 0.625 cm. crassum,
initio vaginatum, internodiis abbreviatis. Pseudobulbi eke te
cm, distantes, erecti, elongati, supra basin leviter fusiformi-
incrassati, apicem versus sensim attenuati, c. 12.7-13.7 em.
longi, in sicco 0.6-0.65 cm, diam, lfoli1. Folium petiolatum,
lanceolatum, acuminatum, nervis majoribus c. 6-7, in sicco
tenuiter coriaceum, c¢. 18.5-21 cm. longum, 4.3-4.6 om.
latum ; petiolus canaliculatus, e. 0.6-1.5 em. longus. Inflo-
rescentia synantha, erecta, folio brevior. pedunculo - ‘tenui apice
incrassato c. 8-10 em. longo, rachide incrassata flexuosa ad ce.
4.5 cm, longa, succedanee ‘ad c. 12 flores gignente, internodiis
ce. 0.4-0.5 cm. longis. Bracteae alternatim bifariae, caducae.
Flores majuseuli, ¢. +.8 em. longi (macerati). Sepalum dor-
sale erectum, lanceolatum, anguste obtusum, 7(-9) nervium,
costa media dorso prominente, ¢. 3.5 em. longum, 1 cm. latum,
Sepala lateralia deflexa, apice revoluta, oblique lanceolata,
angulato-faleata, obtusiuscula, apiculata, undulata, carinata,
supra basin c. 7(-9) nervia, c. 2.75 em. longa, 0.73 em. lata.
Petala reflexa, linearia, 3 nervia, supra basin ec. 0.17 cm.
longa (basis tantum adest). Labellum basi lata sacculata
insertum, 2 lobum, 3 nervium, 3 constatum, costis basin exca-
vatam haud attingentibus, lateralibus ibi in lobulum parvum
reversum productis, omnibus rectis simplicibus glabris in
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ungue lobi intermedii humiloribus et in lamina evanescen-
tibus, expansum ¢. 2.55 em. longum, hypochylio suborbiculart a
ae ocule e. 1 em. longo 0.875 cm. eros lobi laterales erecti, it
semiorbiculares, antice haud producti; lopme intermedius mag- (!
nus, porrectus, apice revolutus, unguiculatus, ungue sub- '
cuneato-oblongo -c. 0.475 cm. longo basi 0.25 cm. apice i
0.375 em. lato, lamina 3 orbiculari convexa abrupte brevissime |
obtuse acuminaia c. 1 cm. longo 1.1 em. lata. Gynostemium Mi
gracile, curvatum, apicem versus subclavatum, exalatum, apice |
obtusum, sectione transversa triangulum, subtus supra basin i
bene prominentem dente porrecto transverso a dorso compresso i
late triangulo obtuso donatum, c. 1.35 cm. longum, clinandrio \{
eoneavo. Rostellum magnum, semiorbiculare, convexum. {I
Stigma suborbiculare, concavum. Ovarium pedicellatum sig-
moideum, tortum, 6 costatum, c. 1 cm. longum. ‘|
Borneo: Sarawak, on Mt. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang, CO: i
~€. Moulton n. 12, fl. in May 1911). This species belongs to H
the section Longifoliae, as this was limited by Pfitzer. It is Fi
remarkable for the unequally long sepals, the large strongly i
clawed midlobe of the hp and the ‘column which bears a tooth hI
a little above the base. The plant is allied to C. vernicularts. |
Jide iaiter ‘th
i
Coelogyne Moultonu, J. J. S., n. sp. i
Pseudobulbi satis approximati validi, elongati, c. 23 cm.
longi, 2 folii. Folia petiolata, lanceolata, nervis c. 7 subtus i
prominentibus, c. +2 cm. longa, 6.75 em. lata; petiolus cana- | |
liculatus, costatus, c. 7 em. longus. Inflorescentia proteran- i
tha, elongata, pendula, laxe multiflora, pedunculo c. 9 cm. |
longo, rachide nigro-furfuraceo- puberula G 3D Om, liom NI
Bracteae alternatim bifariae, magnae, persistentes, orbiculari- il
ovatae, rotundatae, concavae, multiner viae, dorso minute nigro- (!
furfuraceo-punctatae, c. 2.2-2.6 cm. longae, 2-2.2 cm. latae. i
Flores mediocres, sepalis praesertim basin versus nigro-furfu- (
raceo-punctatis. Sepalum dorsale oblongum, apicem versus i
angustatum, anguste obtusum, concavum, c. 5 nervium, nervo i)
intermedio dorso prominente, c. 1.65 em. longum, 0.625 em. |
latum. Sepala lateralia oblique subovato- oblonga, subacuta, i
concava, carinata, 6 nervia, c. 1.7 em. longa, 0.8 em. lata. :
Labellum coneavum, 3 lobum, basi saceato-depressum, 6 cos- I
tatum, costis omnibus ad medium lobi intermedii productis, |
basi et praesertim apice simplici plus minusve lacinulato ex-
cepto dupleatis crenulatisque, costis 2 interioribus longissimis
usque ad basin labelli productis ibi humilibus integrisque, 2 |
sequentibus in + supra basin evanescentibus, 2 exterioribus |
brevissimis vix infra basin lobi intermedii productis, costa
media haud incrassata, expansum ambitu oblongum, c. 1.6 em.
longum, 1 cm. latum, hypochylio quadrangulo in lobos laterales
leviter dilatato medio ‘c. 0.85 cm. lato; lobi laterales erecti,
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antice brevissime disjuncti, rotundati, crenulati, gynostemio
paulo breviores; lobus intermedius transverse rotundato-qua-
drangulus, apice breviter rotundato-bilobus cum lobulo paryo
rotundato in sinu, crenulatus, c. 9.5 cm. longus, 0.675 em.
latus. Gynostemium superne curvatum, in 4 supra basin
abrupte latissime alatum, cucullato-concavum, ala apicali vix
recurva trapeziformi truncata crenata, c. 1.17 cm. longum,
expansum 0.67 cm. latum. _ Anthera abscondita, cucullata,
transversa, breviter ovata, connectivo basi conico-incrassato, e.
0.23 em. lata. Rostellum recurvum, semiorbiculari-ovatum.
Stigma parvum, margine inferiore producto recuryvo rotundato.
Ovarium pedicellatum clavatum, sigmoideum, 6 sulcatum,
nigro-furfuraceo-puberulum, ¢. 0.87 cm. ovarium ec. 0.45 cm.
longum.
Borneo: Sarawak, on Mt. Derian, Ulu Limbang, alt.
circ. 4,500 ft. (J.C. Moulton, n. 17, fl. in May Tea
species is allied to C. Dayana, Rchb. f., of which it has the
habit. It is characterised by the very large bracts, which
are but little shorter as the relatively small flowers, the lip,
which has short sidelobes and a shortiy bilobed midlobe and
bears 6 keels, of which the outer ones are the shortest, and a
broadly winged column.
Dendrochilum longipes, J. J. S., n. sp.
Rhizoma elongatum, validum, radicans, teres, in sicco ce.
0.3-0.325 em. diam., vaginis tubulosis. Pseudobulbi ec. 3-6.5
em. inter se distantes, elongati, cauliformes, in sicco rhizomate
tenuiores, c. 6.5-9 em. longi, Ifolii. Folium lanceolatum,
acutum, basi petiolato-contractum, c. 9 nervium, coriaceum,
e, 6.5-11 em. longum, 1.35-2.25 em. latum; petiolus canalicu-
latus, c. 0.4-0.9 em. longus. Inflorescentia cum folio plane
evoluto synantha, elonga, stricta, multiflora, c. 33-39 em. longa,
pedunculo superne bracteis c. 2 satis remotis adpressis obtusis
sterilibus ¢. 0.3-0.325 cm. longis donato, rachide quadrangula
e. 18-21 em. longa, internodiis c. 0.2-0.325 em. longis. Brac-
teae alternatim bifariae, patentes, suborbiculares, basi latae,
marginibus involutae, erosae, 3 nerviae, c. 0.3 em. longae,
0.275 cm. latae. Flores parvi, valde aperti, c. 0.53 em. lati.
Sepalum dorsale ovato-oblongum, breviter acuminata, concava,
subcarinata, 3 nervia, c. 0.375 cm. longum, 0.15 cm. latum.
Sepala lateralia oblique ovato-oblonga, breviter acuminata,
concava, subcarinata, 3 nervia c. 0.36 em. longa, 0.17 cm.
lata. Pelata oblique lanceolata, vix falcatula, acuta, concava,
3 nervia, nervis lateralibus tenuissimis, c. 0.35 cm. longa, 0.1
cm. lata. Labellum parvum, subsimplex, supra basin et supra
medium valde recurvum, undulatum, inferne costis 2 validis-
simis altissimis carnosis basi introrsum coneayvis in epichylio
humilibus convexisque suleo separatis apicem haud attingen-
tibus, expansum ¢. 0.26 cm. longum, hypochylio quadrangulo
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-undulato ec. 0.14 cm. lato, epianye (lobo intermedio) paulo
latiore triangulo acuto angulis basilaribus obtuso papilloso c.
0.15 cm. longo et lato. Gy nostemium curvatum, subtus costa
longitudinali instructum, c. 0.2 cm. longum, prorsum e basi
bibrachiatum, brachiis gynostemium inexpansum paulum su-
perantibus porrectis linearibus apice leviter dilatatis obtusis-
simis extus convexis c. 0.225 cm. longis, ala apicali cum cli-
nandric quadrangula truncata vix retusa concava apice re-
eurvula, pede distincto ec. 0.03 cm. longo. Anthera cucullata,
late ovato- triangula, apice truncata, c. 0.6 cm. lata, connectivo
oblique conico-incrassato. ostellum breviter ovato-trian-
gulum. acutum. Stigma semiorbiculare, margine inferiore
Besa, Ovarium turbinato- ovale, 6 sulcatum, eo Vall seine
longum ; pedicellus tenuior, ¢. 0.175-0.2 cm. longus,
Borneo; Sarawak, on Mi. Batu Lawi, Ulu Liml pang, (I.
C. Moulton, n. 15, fl. in May 1911). This well marked “plant
belongs with D. remotum, J. J.8., to the species of the section
Platyclinis with an elongate rhizome. The pseudobulbs are
Jong and slender, there are two very strong keels on the hypo-
chyl of the lip, and the very long linear blunt sidewings are
free from the base of the column.
Dendrochilum remotum, J. J. S., n. sp.
Rhizoma elongatum, ramosum, radicans, teres, initio vagi-
“nis magnis tectum. Psudobulbi c. 1.1-1.8 cm. distantes, teretes,
e. 0.8-1.1 em. longi, lfolii. Folium petiolatum, ovato-lanceo-
latum, acutum, c. 5 nervium, nervis minoribus alternantibus,
nervis in sicco prominentibus, coriaceum, ¢. 2.5-3.3 em. longum,
0.5-1 cm. Jatum: petiolus distinctus, canaliculatus, ¢. 0.15-9.3
em. longus. Inflorescentiae in pseudobulbis novellis synan-
thae, folia superantes, graciles, pedunculo filiformi c. 2-2.3 em.
longo, rachide compresso-quadrangula ce. +-4.7 cm. longa laxius
multifiora. Bracteae pedicellum laxe amplectentes, concavae,
-expansae ovato-orbiculares, apiculatae, 5 nerviae, c. 0.225 cm.
longae et latae. Flores parvi, c. 0.3 cm. diam., sepalis peta-
lisque divergentibus. Sepalum dorsale Jineari-lanceolatum,
apice recurvum, acutum, concavum, 3 nervium, ce. 0.37
longum, 0.07 cm. latum. Sepala lateralia anguste oblique
lanceolata, faleatula, acuta, concava, dorso carinata, 3 nervia,
e. 0.34 em. Jonga, 0.07 cm. lata. Petala anguste lanceolata,
falcatula, apice paulum incrassata, acuta, superne minute
erosulo-crenulata, concava, 3 nervia, c. 0.3 cm. longa, 0.06 cm.
lata. Labellum mobile, curvatum, breviter unguiculatum, vix
trilobium, cancavum, intus costis 2 latis haud in unguem pro-
ductis superne evanescentibus, expansum cum ungue ec. 0.13
cm. longum, 0.06 cm. latum, lobis lateralibus erectis brevibus
latis crenulatis, lobo intermedio semiorbiculari-ovato subacuto
e. 0.04 cm. longo. Gynostemium curvulum, ¢. 0.125 em.
longum, stelidiis e medio ortis porrectis paraliclis ala apicali
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fere aequilongis lanceolato-subulatis, ala apicali cucullata apice
recurva oblonga obtusa, pede cum ovario angulum obtusum
faciente c. 0.04 cm. longo. Rostellum recuryum, brevi-trian-
geulum, convexum. Stigma ovale, longitudinale. Ovarium
brevissimum, cum pedicello ¢. 0.075 em, longum.
Borneo: Sarawak, on Mt. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang, (J.
C. Moulton, n. 16, fl. in May 1911). Amongst the few species
of the section Platyclinis with an elongate rootstock (for
which Pfitzer and Kranzlin proposed the superfluous and in-
accurately defined subgenus Monochlamys) this seems to be
the smallest one. The lip is only slightly three-lobed, with a
relatively very short terminal lobe and 2 stout longitudinal
keels.
Dendrobium lawiense, J. J. S., n. sp.
Caules tenues, ramosi, radicantes, c. 25-55 em. longi, c. 4
em. supra basin vel plus tenuiter fusiformi-incrassati, parte
incrassata c. 4-10 em. longa 2-3 nodi ad nodos contracta in
sicco acute costata, superne foliati, internodis c. 1.2-3 em.
longis. Folia linearia, apicem versus leviter angustata, in-
aequaliter biloba, dense in sicco prominenter nervosa, rigidula
c. 3.8-6.5 cm. longa, in sicco 0.2-0.325 cm. lata; vaginae tubu-
losae, costulatae, “crebre et minute puncticulatae, internodia
paulum superantes. Inflorescentiae ad nodos partis caulium
superioris, fasciculares, squamis siccis ad ¢. 0.5 em. longis cinc-
tae, paucos flores gignentes. Flores mediocres, fugaces. Sepa-
lum dorsale lanceolatum, obtusum (?), 7 neryium, c. 1.5 em.
longum, 0.46 cm. latum. Sepala !ateralia mentum breve
rectum conicum lateraliter compressum obtusum cum ovario
angulum rectum faciens c. 0.5 cm. longum formantia, oblique
sublanceolata, breviter subacuta, basi oblique dilatata, c. 7
nervia, c. 1.7 cm., usque ad apicem menti 2.4 cm. longa, 0.625
em. lata... Labellum pedi eynostemii peel elio subrectum,
elongatum, angustum, concavum, 3 lobum, 4 parte inferiore
intus pilosum, costis 3 simplicibus glabris valde approximatis
medium labelli haud attingentibus, expansum c. 2.15 am. lon-
gum, usque ad apicem loborum lateralium ec. 1 cm. longum, ad
lobos laterales 0.825 cm. latum; lobi laterales (pars libera)
parvi, dentiformes, triangul1, eee Ue dentati; lobus inter-
medius anguste oblongus, in c. ¥ supra basin contractus, apice
breviter triangulus, iihoulahue , crenulatus, basi 0.53 em., con-
strictione 0.45 em. latus. Gynostemium breve, bifidum, e. 0.16
cm, longum, auriculis magnis sursum curvis faleatis laciniatis,
filamento brevissimo. Anthera majuscula, cucullata, conica,
lateraliter compressa, sulco longitudinali, apice producta
breviter 3 dentata, c. 0.175 cm. longa. Stigma obtriangulum.
Pes gynostemii cum ovario angulum rectum faciens, rectus,
intus costa longitudinali infra apicem glandulam subglobosam
gerente instructus, c 0.5 cm. longus. Ovarium breve, ob-
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conicum, 6 sulcatum, c. 0.2 cm. longum; pedicellus tenius, c. }
0.6 cm. longus. é tl
Borneo: Sarawak, on Mt. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang, (J. |
C. Moulton, n. 8 and 9, fl. in May 1911). A very distinct fl
species allied to D. cr umenatum, Sw., well marked by its slen- |
der stems relatively long above the base thicked into a slender
elongate pseudobulb, narrow leaves, a comparatively short
mentum and an elongate lip with small sidelobes.
Eria lawiensis, J. J. S., n. sp.
Caules approximati, teretes, c. 20 cm. longi, foliati, inter-
nodiis c. 0.6-1.2 cm. longis. Folia linearia, parte Superiore ¢.
1.2-2 cm. longa oblique pugioniformi carinataque, anguste
obtusa, basi leviter contracta, supra concava, subtus convexa,
adulta glabra, impresse nigro-punctata, crasse carnosa, c. 4-5.5
e. 0.825 cm. longa, basi 0.2 cm. lata. Petala oblique linearia,
inferne leviter dilatata, apice subrecurva, obtusa, glabra, 1
em. longa, ¢ .0.3-0.4 em. lata; vaginae tubulosae, internodia i
paulum superantes, novellae adpresse rufo-pilosae, adultae i
elabrae et impresse punctatae. Inflorescentiae vaginas 2 per- é
forantes, sessiles, abbreviatae, dense pluriflorae, ¢. 0.65 em. i
longae, rachide dense rufe sublanato-pilosae. Bracteae ovarium Fi
longe superantes, concavae, dorso parcius subadpresse pilosae. i
Flores vagi, parvi, c. 0.325 cm. longi, 0.25 cm. lati, sepalis con- it
niventibus dorso parcius adpresse pilosis, pilis basi tumidis. ‘
Sepalum dorsale oblongum, apice leviter recurvum, inferne |
concavum, superne cohvexum, 3 nervium, c. 0.3 cm. longum,
basi 0.13 em. latum. Sepala lateralia vix mentum formantia, }
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oblique triangula, obtusa, concava, dorso carinata, 2-3 nervia, |
nervia, c. 0.8 cm. longa, 0.06 cm. lata. Labellum porrectum |
gynostemio parallelum, concavum, 3 lobum, glabrum, ecal- i
losum, 3 nervium, ima basi excavationibus 2 parvis subtus
convexis donatum, expansum ambitu quinquangulare, ¢. 0.275
cm. longum et latum; lobi laterales erecti, rotundati, repan-
dulo-crenati; lobus intermedius sinibus late obtusis a lobis
lateralibus sejunctus, porrectus, triangulus, anguste obtusus,
concavus, marginibus antice incurvis. Gynostemium a dorso
compressum, breve, latum, glabrum, bene 0.1 cm. longum, Hi
chnandrio concavo cum costa longitudinali, auriculis obtusis- l
simis concavis extus conxexis. Anthera cucullata, subtrapezi- ll
formis, apice truncata et utrinque in lacinulam triangulam /
exeus, c. 0.075 cm. lata. Stigma breve, reniforme. Pes. "
gynostemli cum ovario et gynostemio angulum rectum faciens,
abbreviatus, c. 0.04 cm. longus. Ovarium sessile, dense sub- i
adpresse pilosum, ¢. 0.14 cm. longum. !
Borneo: Sarawak, on Mt. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang, (J. H
C. Moulton, n. 14, fl. in May 1911). An inconspicuous but |
distinct species of the Trichotosia section, with thick linear |
leaves, trigonous subulate at the apex, very short and dense i
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inflorescenses of small flowers, linear petals and an extremely
short column foot .
Eria ovilis, J. J. S., D. sp.
Pseudobulbi approximati, vaginis alternatim bifariis con-
duplicatis oblongo-triangulis accrescentibus ad ¢. 6.5 em. longis
tecti, verisimiliter 2 folii. Folia erecta, divergentia, lanceo-
lato-loriformia, inaequaliter vel subaequaliter obtusa, basi con-
duplicata, costa media supra in sicco suleata, crasse coriacea,
rigida, c. 20-27 cm. longa, 3.1-3.8 cm. lata. Inflorescentia
valida, elongata, suprene dense multiilora, cylindrica, omnino
dense et crasse lanata, pedunculo c. 36.5 em. longo, plures
squamas parvas in lanam immersas gerente, rachide arcuata
c. 25 cm. longa. LBracteae triangulae, dense lanatae, c. 0.15-
0.2 em. longae. Flores parvi, c. 0.73 cm. longi, sepalis dorso
crasse lanatis petalisque conniventibus. Sepalum dorsale
triangulum, obtusum, concavum, c. 0.4 cm. longum, 0.3 cm.
latum. Sepala lateralia lacinia oblique oblonga concava ad
pedem gynostemii decurrentia, mentum rotundato-saccatum
cum ovario angulum acutum faciens formantia, parte libera
late oblique ovato-triangula, obtusa, concava, 5 nervia, c. 0.37
em. longa tota latitudine ¢. 0.65 em. (cum pilis). Petala
oblique oblonga, oblique obtusa, basi oblique dilatata, minute
erosula, 8 nervia, c. 0.875 cm. longa, medio Ui iemeuiara:
Labellum patens, breviter et late unguiculatum, ungue valde
coneavo, concavum, apice leviter recurvum, marginibus medio
valde involutis tubuloso-contiguis subpanduratum, glabrum,
ecallosum, 5 nervium, inexpansum c. 0.45 cm. longum, expan-
sum ambitu oblongum, lobo medio excepto constrictione utrin-
que 2 lobulatum, lobulis rotundatis, ¢. 0.525 em. longum, ad
0.25 cm. latum, lobo intermedio (epichylio) quinquangulari
subtrilobulo (eo labellum proprie 7 lobulatum) obtuso margine
papilloso c. 0.14 em. longo 0.2 an. lato. Gynostemium humile,
basi constrictum, ovario multo tenuius, dorso convexum, ec. 0.15
cm. longum, clinandrio concavo, apice obtusissimo. Rostellum
breve, obtusissimum, recurvulum., Stigma transversum, mar-
gine inferiore elevatum. Pes gynostemii cum ovario angulum
acutum faciens, sigmoideus, apice incurvus, antice incras-
satione Vformi ornatus, usque ad apicis ovarli marginem infe-
riorem ¢c. 0.35 em., ad ejusdem marginem superiorem 0.67 cm.
longus. Ovarium pedicellatum clavatum, crasse lanatum, c.
0.9 cm. longum, pedicello c. 0.325 em. longo.
Borneo: Sarawak, on Mt. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang, (J.
C. Moulton, n. 6, fl. in May 1911). Found on a tree, alt.
5,660 ft. A species of the section Aeridostachya with dense
thickly woolly inflorescences. The petals are not faleate. The
lip is contracted in the middle and has an obscurely 3 lobed
midlobe.
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APPENDIX III.
The Ferns of the Batu Lawi Expedition.
By E. B. CopELAND, DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF
AGRICULTURE, Los Baros.
Of the fifteen species sent, four and probably five are new to
science. Besides these, there is one which cannot be specifically
determined and one which has never been collected except in
Borneo ; the others are all of sufficiently General distribution in the
Malayan region so that they do not point in one direction more
than in any other.
The most notable thing about the collection is the very large
proportion of new species. ‘The other striking thing about it is
the strong representation of the genus Plagiogyria. So far as its
species are known, the large majority come from further north than
Borneo, and this might be taken as a sign that Batu Lawi with
its high elevation has a striking representation of Philippine and
more northern plants.
The determinations are as follows :—
Polypodium heterocarpum, (Bl.) Mett.
Polypodium soridens, Hook., a very small and compact form.
Lycopodium cernuum, L.
Athyrium Moulton, Copel., n. sp.
Stipite usque ad 90 cm. alto, gracile, nitido, nigro, inerme,
praecipue deorsum paleis nigris plerisque deflexis vestito;
fronde 60 cm. vel ultra alta, 50 cm. lata, tripinnata, rhachibus
nigris minute paleatis; pinnis usque ad 25 cm. longis, ca. 6
em. latis, brevi-stipitatis, acroscopicis longioribus 4 cm. longis,
1 em. latis, acuminatis; pinnulisii infimis solummodo liberis,
sessilibus, serratis, obtusis, lineari-oblongis, 1.5 mm. latis, pa-
pyraceis, infra pallidis, costa venisque nigris ; costa et interdum
venis squamuliferis, venis utroque latere 2 vel 3, simplicibus;
soro costale, breve, indusio brunneo, tenue.
Bukit Lawi, Ulu Limbang, May 28, 1911. In color, and
in some other details, like A. atratwm (Christ_sub Diplazio),
but much more finely cut. The specimen sent is three fronds
of which only one is in fruit, and it very sparingly; it is there-
fore probable that the species reaches a considerably larger
size than is here indicated.
Ho cere See
5. Balantwum pilosum, Copel., n. sp.
Stipite 20 em. vel ultra alto, castaneo-purpureo, decidue
hirsuto indeque asperulo; fronde 30 cm, alta, 15 em. lata,
subdeltoidea, quadripinnatifida, rhachibus ubique pilis rufo-
castaneis densissime vestitis; pinnulis stipitatis, 3 cm. longis,
deltoideis; pinnulisii infimis 8 mm. longis, 5 mm. latis, obli-
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quis, profunde pinnatifidis, supra nitidis sparse pilosis, infra
dense pilosis, coriaceis; soris in apices dentium minorum in-
positis indeque sinus occupare simulantibus, 1 mm. latis, valvis
indusii aequalibus ; sporangiis pilis copiosis interspersis, annulo
obliquo, continuo.
Bukit Lawi. Ulu Limbang, May 28, 1911. The leaf-form
is altogether oe of Balantium, but the texture and extreme
hairiness are more familiar in Dicksonia and Dennstaedtia.
6. Cheiropleuria bicuspis, Presl.
i. LHlaphoglossum, sp., species cannot be determined without sterile
frond and rhizome,
8. Trichomanes Pluma, Hooker.
9. Oleandra coriacea, Copel., n. sp.
Rhizomate ut videtur erecto; stipite apud basin articulato,
supra articulationem 10-15 mm. alto, minute dense paleaceo ;
fronde 20-25 cm. longa, ca. 18 mm. Jata, angustissime cau-
data, coriacea, rubida, supra glabrescente, infra ad costam
paleis linearibus badiis vestita et alibi minute albido-pilosa ;
venis prominentibus; soris margini quam costae proplioribus,
rufis.
Bukit Lawi, Ulu Limbang, May 28, 1911. A very dis-
tinct species.
10. Ophioglossum Moultom, Covel., n. sp.
Ophioderma stipite alato ca. 5 mmm. lato, 25-30 em. longo;
fronde vix aequilonga, ca. 5 cm, lata, lanceolata, utrinque
sensim angustata; spica usque ad 10 eni. longa, brevistipitata.
Bukit Buyo, Ulu Limbang; also Bukit Lawi, 3 sheets.
An amply distinct, and apparently very constant species.
11. Plagiogyria, probably spec. nova, sterile.
12. bBlechnum capense, (.) Schlecht.
3. Plagiogyria egenolfioides, (Baker) Copel.
(Lomaria egenolifioides, Baker in Kew Bull., 1894 p. 7.).
Known only from Borneo. ‘This specimen agrees exactly with
Baker’s diagnosis, except that the pinnae are Jinear-oblong
rather than linear. I cannot detect tubercles on the base of
the stipe, but the annulus is oblique and uninterrupted.
ld. Plagicgyria, probably a juvenile P. adnata, (Bl.) Bedd.
15. Asplenium pellucidum, Lam.
APPENDIX AV. |
Mammals taken.on the Batu Lawi Expedition.
Bye Ce elommnone
The number of mammals taken on the expedition was regret-
tably small owing to the impossibility of spending any length of time
in one place so that collectors could go out with guns or set traps.
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Only nine specimens were collected representing eight different
species.
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Macacus nemestrinus, Linn.
One male, rather darker than usual, from the Madihit,
May. A common monkey in South Burma, Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra and Borneo.
Semnopithecus hosei, Thos.
One female from Salindong, June. A species apparently
confined to the Baram and Limbang districts. ‘The type was
taken at Niah on the Sarawak coast.
Viverra tangalunga, Gray.
One from Salindong, June. Common.
Tupaa montanus, Thos.
One example from Mt. Selinguid, alt. 4,500 ft. cire.
Compared with three from Mt. Dulit, the median blackish band
is not fully developed and the sides lack the rufous tint of adult
specimens. Mr. H. C. Robinson kindly examined it and agrees
in this identification.
Rhithrosciurus macrotis, Gray.
One example from the Madihit district. Found in low-
lying districts in Sarawak up to some 2000 ft. Not recorded
outside Borneo.
Scirus prevostu, Desm.
One from Limbang, June. ‘Typical dark-grey backed
form. One of the commonest squirrels in Sarawak.
Sciurus notatus, Bodd.
One from Mt. Derian, alt. 4,500-5,000 ft. May—and one
from Limbang in June. ‘The Mt. Derian specimen agrees best
with some from Mt. Dulit, but has a darker tail than any from
that locality ; the black band on each side of the belly is wider
than in any Dulit specimen in the Museum. ‘The underneath
is rich reddish hke-the Dulit form. The Limbang example
agrees with those taken near Kuching. A common squirrel
all over Sarawak.
Cervulus muntjac, Zimm.
A male from Salindong. Common.
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APPENDIX V. |
Birds taken on the Batu Lawi Expedition.
By J. Cy Movunrom:
Forty six specimens representing thirty different species of
Birds were taken altogether on the expedition. ‘They fall naturally
into two divisions, (1) species from Limbang and the lower waters
of that 1iver as far up as Kuala Saladong; nearly all of which are
~found commonly in Sarawak and for the most part are widely dis-
tributed over India, China and Malaya. (ii) species from the
mountainous country south and east of the Madihit, taken at al-
titudes of 3000 to 5000 feet. ‘These are mostly rare species pre-
viously recorded from Mts. Kina Balu or Dulit only. ‘Twenty
species may be referred to the first of these divisions and ten to the
‘second. ‘The latter number shows a relatively high proportion of
interesting species considering the short time actually spent in
collecting and there is no doubt that a longer stay in the mountain-
ous region would have produced many more interesting species.
1. LHaematortyx sanguimceps, Sharpe.
A male and female, the latter doubtly identified as this.
Both shot on the same day 25.5.11. This rare partridge has
been previously recorded from Mt. Kina Balu, Lawas Mts. and
Mt. Dulit only.
2. Rollulus roulroul, Scop.
‘Three males and one female at Salindong, June. A
common partridge in Sarawak with habitat extending over
Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo.
3. Argusianus grayt, Elliott.
One male example of the Argus pheasant from Salindong,
June, shot this species is confined to Borneo, though an allied
species occurs in Siam, Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. We
found the dancing ground of this species on the hill above
Salindong and heard its curious cry frequently.
4. Butreron capellr, Temm.
Five examples of this pigeon from Kuala Madalam. lt
also occurs in Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java; apparently
not common in Sarawak.
5. Carpophaga aenea, Linn.
Three specimens of this common pigeon near Limbang.
Widely distributed over India, China and Malaya.
6. Ducula badia, Raffi.
A single example from Salindong. ‘This is a rare pigeon
in Sarawak, and apparently only found in mountainous dis-
tricts, eg., Mt. Kina Balu and Mt. Dulit.
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Spilorms pailidus, Wald.
One from Mt. Derian, alt. 4,500 it. June Ist. This eagle
is confined to Borneo.
Pandion haliaetus, L.
One from Limbang, June. Although widely distributed,
apparently rarely met with in Sarawak. .
Polioaetus ichthyaetus, Horsf.
Young form from Salindong, June. A widely distributed
species.
Ninowx scutulata, Raffi.
One from Limbang, June. ‘The species is found in South
India and Malaya.
Psittinus incertus, Shaw.
One example of this common parrot near Limbang, June.
It occurs over Indo-Malaya.
Hurystomus orientalis, Linn.
One from Limbang. Common in Sarawak and widely
distributed. The closely allied Hurystomus calonyx, Sharpe,
is much rarer.
Pelargopsis leucocephala, Gm.
One from Limbang in June. A common king-fisher along
some of the Sarawak rivers and apparently confined to Borneo.
Anorrhinus galeritus, Temm.
One from Limbang in June. A common Horn-bill in
Sarawak; also found in Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
Hierococcyx fugax, Horst.
One young one from Limbang, June. This Cuckoo does
~ not seem to be common in Sarawak. It also occurs in Suma-
tra, Java and the Philippines. Mr. H. C. Robinson kindly
examined this for me and concurred in my identification.
Zanclostomus javanicus, Horsf.
Two from Salindong in June. Common in Sarawak.
Also occurs in Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java.
Urococeyx microrlinus, Berlep.
One from Salindong. A common species in Borneo.
The closely allied U. erythrognathus comes from Malay Penin-
sula and Sumatra.
Calyptomena viridis, Raffles.
One from Salindong, June. A common broadbill in
Sarawak. The species is found in Malay Peninsula and
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Calyptomena whiteheadi, Sharpe.
One taken on Mt. Selinguid, near Batu Lawi alt. 4,700 ft.,
May 29th. Only known from the mountainous district of
North West Borneo.
Hurylaemus ochromelas, Ratfiles.
One from Kuala Madihit, May 17th. A common species
in Sarawak and distributed over Malay Peninsula and
Sumatra.
Cymborhynchus macrorhynchus, Gm.
Two specimens from Limbang, June. A common bird in
Sarawak; also found in Tenasserim and Siam.
Pitta granatina, 'Temm.
One from the Kuala Madihit, May 17th. Fairly well dis-
tributed over Sarawak, not found outside Borneo.
Hemixus connectens, Sharpe
One from Mt. Derian (alt. 4-5000 ft.). This bulbul is
only found in the mountains of Northern Borneo. ‘There are
eleven other examples in the Sarawak Museum from Mts. Kina
Balu, Dulit, Penrissen; none from altitudes below 3,000 ft.
Garrulax schistochlamys, Sharpe.
‘Two specimens of this Laughing-Thrush from Mt. Derian,
4700 ft., May 26th. Previously recorded from Mts. Kina Balu
and Dulit only. Iris claret, eyelid light blue, legs and feet
dark slate.
Allocotops calvus, Sharpe.
One from Mt. Derian, 4,700 ft. May 26th. Previously
known from Mts. Kina Balu and Dulit only.
Rhinocicla treachert, Sharpe.
Four examples shot on Mt. Derian 4,700 ft. May 26th.
Iris black-brown, eyelid vellow, beak crange, legs, feet and
claws yellow. Murut and Kalabit name is “ marabbiar.”
Only recorded from N. W. Borneo (Kina Balu) before. The
closely allied R. mitrata, Miull., occurs in Sumatra and the
mountains of the Malay Peninsula.
Cittocincla suavis, Sel.
One specimen from Limbang, June. Fairly common in
Sarawak; not found outside Borneo.
Oriolus hosei, Sharpe.
One example of this rare Oriole from Mt. Turan, alt. cire.
4000 ft. Iris claret, beak red. Previously recorded from Mt.
Dulit only.
Buchanga stimatops, Sharpe.
One from Mt.. Derian, alt. 4,700 ft. This Drongo has
been found on Kina Balu and in Sumatra.
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30. Platysmurus aterrimus, Temm.
One specimen from Salindong, June. A common bird
in Sarawak; not found outside Borneo, though an allied
species occurs in Sumatra and another in the Malay Penin-
sula and Sumatra.
APPENDIX VI.
Butterflies taken on the Batu Lawi Expedition
By wd. Cy MouLTON:
At first sight the total of 113 different species recorded com-
pares very favourably with other lists compiled on similar ex-
peditions* and this was no doubt due to the diverse nature of the
regions passed through, including as it did perhaps the two best
kinds of country for butterfly-collecting, namely, (1) stony or
sandy banks of rivers and small sunny streams bordered in each
ease with tall virgin jungle, (11) cleared mountain-tops. In the
former class one meets a great number of Papilios, Pierimes and
small Lycaenids, usually congregated together in crowds on wet
patches of sand, on wet clothes drying in the sun, or on refuse. In
the latter class of country we were fortunate enough to have one
beautiful fine day on the top of Mt. Selinguid, alt. 4,250 ft. For
the greater part of our land journey we were walking in deep dark
jungle and usually in rain, so that the butterflies we saw then were
remarkably few. ‘The list might easily have been larger if ex-
amples of more common species had been taken, such as Mycalesis,
Erites, Hlymnias, Amathusia, Neptis, Athyma, Adolias, Futhaha,
Tranaecia, etc., etc., but I have not included them as I did not know
them well enough to identify specifically with any certainty in the
field and so made no notes of their occurrence, although represent-
atives of those genera were certainly seen.
As did the birds, so do the butterflies fall into two natural
groups (i) common, widely distributed, typical Malayan species
mostly taken on the river journey (Limbang to the Madihit) and
(11) rare mountain species taken on the land journey between the
head-waters of the Madihit and Batu Lawi, alt. 2,000-5,600 ft.
We may refer 75 to the former class and mest of the remaining 38
to the latter. The comparatively large totals of 50 different Lycae-
nidae and 16 different Pierinae are perhaps worthy of comment.
considering the short time spent in actual collecting, while the
totals of 21 species of Nymphalidae and 14+ Hesperidae can only be
characterized as distinctly poor.
*In a month’s collecting on Mt. Penrissin, Sarawak, Mr. Shelford reecrded
06 different species of butterflies (Journ. S r, Br., Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 35. pp.
29-36 1901)
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The geographical distribution of the species taken in the
mountainous district primarily points to a close relation with the
butterfly-fauna of Kina Balu and other mountains in Borneo, and
as we should further expect, species found in the mountains of
Sumatra were also taken. Of the more widely distributed species
taken, several are found in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Burma,
Palawan, the Philippines, Java and India (perhaps the most oc-
curring in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, and the least number
in Java and India).
NYMPHALIDAE.
1. Ideopsis daos, Boisd.
Madihit, May 16th, (and its mimic the Chaleosid moth,
Isbarta pieridoides, H. 8. taken on Mt. Selinguid, May 31st).
This common Danaine is widely distributed over Indo-Malaya.
2. Danais aspasia, Fab.
Madihit, May 16th. A common Danaine with wide dis-
tribution.
3. Danais crowleyi, J. Weir.
Mt. Selinguid, alt. 4,850 ft. This species is only known
from the mountains of Borneo and Mr. Shelford in his
“ Butterflies of Borneo” * only records it from Mts, Kina
Balu and Penrissen. It has since been taken on Mt. Poe in
Sarawak.
4. Huploea cramer, Lucas.
Very common on the muddy banks of the Melana and
Apoh Rivers, June. Not noticed on the Limbang River or in
the mountain districts.
Or
Huploea bremeri, Feld.
One male taken on Mt. Selinguid, alt. 4,850 ft. May 31st.
- These last two species are widely distributed over the Indo-
Malayan region.
6. Huploea scuddert, Butler.
A male taken on June 4th, Ulu Madihit.. The species is
confined to Borneo, but not scarce.
Huploea diocletianus lowu, Buti.
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Common on the muddy banks of the Apoh and Melana
Rivers flying with H. cramert.
8. Mycalesis anapita, Moore.
Limbang. A very common species; also occurs in Malay
Peninsula and Sumatra.
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Thaumantis aliris, Westw.
* A male between Mt. Deiian and hill above Rapaw, alt.
cire. 3,000 ft., June 2nd, and another at Salindong, June 10th.
This species is confined to Borneo; flies low in thick jungle.
Common on Mt. Matang and I have seen it feeding on a dead
mammal on Mt. Serambu.
Cynthia erota erotella, Butl.
Common on the banks of the Limbang River. A widely
distributed species. !
Cirrochroa bajadeta, Moore.
Salindong. A common species, also occurring in the:
Malay Peninsula and Java.
Cirrochroa malaya calypso, Wall.
One from Salindong. A common species, also occurring
in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
Adolias dirtea, Fab.
A female from econ nt June 11th. Common and
widely distributed species. :
Cyrestis seminigra, Gr. Sm.
One on Mt. Selinguid, alt. 4,850 ft., May 31st. A rare
species, confined to Borneo, and paneipany to high altitudes.
Kallioma inachis buxtoni,
Seen on two occasions, on the Tabane hee This sub-
species, the Bornean representative of the celebrated Leat-
butterfly of the Indo-Malayan region, is rare in Sarawak. It
seems less scarce at Limbang, and I have seen it on Mts.
Serambu and Penrissen, but its strong flight and beautiful
protective device’ render it very hard to capture.
Doleschallhia bisaltide borneensis, Fruhst.
One from Salindong, June 12th. A common species in
Sarawak. D. bisaltide has a wide distribution over Indo-
Malaya.
Hulems delphis concha, Vollenh.
Near Kuala Delong, Limbang River, May 14th, and one
at Madihit, May 16th. We also saw it on sunny places along
the rocky banks of the Limbang, flying with the common
Pierine, Catopsilia crocale, Cr. Its stronger flight at once
distinguished it from that species.
Prothoe francki angelica, Butl.
Madihit, May 16th. A common and widely distributed
species.
Zemeros emesioides eso, Fruhst.
Kuala Madalam, Limbang River, May 11th. The typical
form occurs in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula.
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Laaita orphna, Boisd.
A single female taken at the foot of Mt. Selinguid, alt.
2,700 ft., May 31st. This specimen differs from typical
orphna in having a broader sub-apical band of red on the
upperside of fore- wing which is developed at the expense of
the fuscous in basal area. On the underside the irridescent
spots are slightly less developed. A common species in Sara-
wak showing little variation.
Lazxita telesia, Hew.
Madihit River, May 18th., and Salindong, June 11th.
A common butterfly in Sarawak.
Fam. LYCAENIDAE.
Gerydus innocens, Druce.
A single female captured by the mountain stream Palahar
(which flows between Mts. Selinguid and Batu Law1) alt. 3,740
ft., May 31st. Previously recorded from Mt. Kina Balu only.
Gerydus ancon, Doh.*
A female from foot of Mts. Selinguid and Batu Lawi, alt.
3,740 ft.
Allotinus horsfieldi, Moore.
A male from Ulu Madihit, May 18th: a common and
widely distributed species.
Allotinus aphocha, Wheil.
Salindong, June 11th. Common in Sarawak ; alsa occurs
in Nias Island.
Notarthrinus musina, Snell.
A common species in the upper waters of the Limbang
and Madihit rivers. In some places hundreds could have been
caught on certain favoured patches of wet sand.
Neopithecops zalmora, Butl.
Madihit June 4th, alt. 2,000 ft., and Mt. Derian, alt. 4,500
ft., May 26th.
Megisba malaya, Horsf.
Kuala Madalam, Limbang River, May 10th; the drv-
season form with white discal patch to fore-wing.
Lycaenopsis shelfordi, de Niceéy.
Salindong, June 16th. Mr. Druce kindly examined this
specimen and identified it thus. Another specimen he iden-
tifies as the hitherto unknown female of this species, which he
proposes to describe soon and place in the British Museum.
*For note on the identification of this specimen see ** A List of the Butter-
flies of Borneo with Des?riptions of New Spacies’’ Part III. Lycaenidae, by the
writer, in Journ. Str. Br., Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 60. 1911 pp. 77-78.
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30. Lycaenopsis ripte, Druce.
One male from Ulu Madihit, alt. 2,000 ft. Only known '
- from North Borneo. |
31. Lycaenopsis puspa, Horsf.
Penribut’s house, Ulu Madihit, alt. 2,000 ft., May 19th.
82. Lycaenopsis limbata placida, de Nicév. |
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Along mountain streams from Ulu Madihit to the foot of
Mt. Selinguid alt. 1000-3000 ft.
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33. Lycaenopsis camenae, de Niceville. r
Salindong, June 11th. A rare species in Sarawak. : {
Occurs in Sumatra commonly according to de Nicéville and |
Martin.
34. Lycaenopsis dilecta, Moore.
Very common on mountain streams between head-waters
of the Madihit and Limbang, including the upper waters of
these two rivers.
35. Lycaenopsis plauta, Druce. '
Three males taken on mountain streams between the Ma-
dihit and Mt. Selinguid, and a female at Selindong June 11th. i)
This species is confined to Borneo. |
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36. Lycaenesthes lycaenina, Feld. 7 |
A small male from Salindong, June 11th.
37. Nacaduba lugine, Druce.
A single female May 20th, near Penribut’s house, Ulu
Madihit, alt. 2,000 ft. The male only was hitherto known and
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I have made this specimen the type female.* |
38. Nacaduba ardates, Moore. )
Very common on the banks of the Limbang extending to
most of the mountain streams beyond the Madihit. i
ave Ung usta, Dist. it
This distinct well-marked little Lycaenid was very com-
mon on wet patches of sand on the upper waters of the Lim- Wl
bang and Madihit rivers. i
40. Lampides elpis, Godt. i]
Madihit, May 21st. ii
41. Lampides virgulatus, Druce. i
| Kuala Madalam, Limbang River, May 11th, and Ulu : ii
Madihit june 4th. This species is conflned to Borneo. |
Madihit, alt. 2,000 ft., May 21st. A rare species chiefly |
found in the mountainous districts of Borneo. It also occurs i
in Sumatra. » il
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Lampides zebra, Druce.
Madihit, May 21st and June 4th. A common species in
Sarawak; very like the Indo-Malayan L. celeno, Cr., which
also occurs in Borneo.
Catochrysops cnejus, Fab.
Madihit, June 5th.
Castalius ethion, Doubl. and Hew.
Mt. Derian, alt. 4,500 ft., May 26th and Madihit, June
4th.
Castalius elna, Hew.
A very small female on the Madihit. It differs from
typical Sarawak elna in having the dark sub-anal band on
underside of hind-wing discontinuous, due to the absence of a
spot between the third and second median nervules. Exp. al.
21 mm. (forma typica, exp. al. 27.33 mm.). Both these
species of Castalius are widely distributed over Indo-Malaya.
Curetis thetis aesopus, Fab.
Madihit, May 16th and June 4th.
Sus. Fam. ARHOPALINAE.
Traota rochana, Horst.
A male from Salindong, June.
Amblypodia narada, Horsf.
A fine male taken feeding on mammal excreta at Kuala
Madalam, May 11th. Rare in Sarawak, also found in the
Andamans, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago.
Arhopala hypomuta, Hew.
Limbang, June. Also found in India and Malay Penin-
sula.
Arhopala sarawaca, Molton.
Madihit, alt. 2,000 ft., June 4th. The types male and
female of this species (described last year were taken near
Kuching. So far only known from Sarawak.
Arhopala diardi, Hew.
A fine male taken on the summit of Mt. Selinguid, alt.
4,850 ft., May 31st. Common in Sarawak and widely distri-
buted over Indo-Malaya.
Arhopala fulgida, Hew.
A male taken on the summit of Mt. Selingwid, fhe dist.
This species is rare in Sarawak; it is also found in the North
India, the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, Billiton and Suma-
tra.
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54. Tajuria donatana, de Nicév.
Salindong, June. Found fairly abundantly on the sum-
mits of Mts. Matang and Santubong.
55. Tajuria travana, Hew.
Mt. Selinguid, alt. 4,859 ft., May 31st., Madihit, May
16th. Very common on the edge cf some paddy farms,
56. Hypolycaena erylus, Godt.
Near Kuala Delong, Limbang River, May 14th. A com-
mon species in Sarawak.
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Chliaria phemis, H. H. Druce.
Two examples taken near the junction of the Kri rivers,
alt. 2850 ft., May 27th.
Or
Delias parthenia, Staud.
One male from Madihit, alt. 2,000 ft., May 21st. A rare
mountain species confined to Borneo.
76. Catopsilia crocale, Cr.
Both seasonal forms were very common all the way up the
Limbang and Madihit Rivers; of those captured there are
three females of typical dry season furm bearing the date May
14th, one female and five males of the typical wet season form
bearing the dates May 14th and 16th.
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Temas harina, Horst.
A female on Mt. Selinguid, 4,850 ft., May 31st.
78. Terms hecabe, Li.
Common everywhere. ‘Taken near Penribut’s house, alt.
2,000 ft. in company with its mimic the Chalcosid moth
(female) Chalcosia hecabe, Jord.*
79. Temas sari, Horst.
One was taken on Mt. Selinguid. I think this species was
as common as the preceding. one. Specimens of both these
species were taken at Salindong, June 11th.
80. Dercas gobrias, Hew.
Salindong, June 12th. Common in most sunny spots up
the Limbang. Also occurs in the Malay Peninsula and
Sumatra.
“ Mentioned in note on Mimicry among some Bornean Insects by the writer
in the Pro>xeedings of the Entomological Society of London 1911. p. LXXY.
R. A. Soc., No. 63, 1912.
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Taias undatus, But.
Salindong, June 9th and 12th. Rather a rare Pierime in
Sarawak, though less scarce in the Limbang district than else-
where. Confined to Borneo.
Catophaga plana, Butl.
Kuala Madalam, Limbang River, May 11th. A common
Pierine. Also found in Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
Catophaga nero, Fab.
Limbang River, May 11th and 14th. Also occurs in Java.
Catophaga flavius, Gr. Smith.
Limbang, May, and Salindong, June. Both these red
Pierines were often seen up the Limbang. Originally des-
cribed from N. E. Borneo.
Catophaga cardena, Hew.
One from Mt. Selinguid, alt. 4,850 ft., May 31st. A
typical mountain species. Also occurs in Malay Peninsula and
Sumatra.
Huphina hespera, Butl.
‘T'wo males from Salindong, June 9th, and two females
from the same place June 11th and 12th. A common species
in Sarawak. Confined to Borneo.
Hebomoia borneensis, Wall.
Salindong, June 12th. A common species.
Troides brookeanus, Wall.
Fairly common in the Madihit hills and generally up the
Limbang.
Troides amphrysus ruficollis, Butl.
A female from Limbang, June.
Papilio noctula, Westw.
One female from Limbang, June, which I refer with some
doubt to this species. It differs from the only other female in
the Sarawak Museum in the internervular fuscous ground-
colour on the underside of. the hind-wing which shows hght
constrictions suggestive of an approach towards the noctis type
in which this constriction has been carried out, resulting in a
hind-marginal row of well defined spots. A typical female
nochis was taken on the Limbang River in April 1910.
Papilio demolion, Cr.
Salindong, June 11th. A common butterfly in Sarawak.
Papilio iswara, White.
Salindong, June 12th. A common butterfly in Sarawak.
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oe:
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KOK:
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Papilio slatert hewitsom, Westw.
The Limbang River, near Kuala Delong, May 14th. Not
common in Sarawak.
Papilio arjuna carnatus, Rothsch.
Salindong, June 12th.
Papilio payent brunei, Fruhst. Z
An example of this fine brown Papilio flew over our heads
at the Kuala Madalam. I am practically certain it was this
species. It has been taken near Mt. Molu.
Papilio antiphates alcibiades, Fab.
Common up the Limbang fiver.
Papilio sarpedon, \.
Common on most sunny places up the Limbang and Madi-
hit rivers very often in company with one or more of P.
eurypylus axion, Feld., P. evemon, Boisd., or P. bathycles
bathycloides, Honr.
Papilio agamemnon, lL.
Common up the Limbang River in company with the
other species just mentioned.
HESPERIDAE.
Satarupa dirae, de Nicév.
A single example of this species from the Madihit, alt.
2,000 ft., June 4th. Rare in Sarawak. Also occurs in Java
and Sumatra.
Tagiades gana, Moore.
A large female from Mt. Selinguid, alt. 4,850 ft., May
dist. Has a larger expanse of white on the upperside of hind-
wing than in the typical form. Mr. Druce kindly determined
it for me. A common species found in Sikkim, Malay Penin-
sula, Java and Palawan.
Hasora maestissima, Mab.
One from Mt. Selinguid, alt. 4,850 ft., May 31st, which
has two spots in fore-wing, and one specimen from the Lim-
bang River near Kuala Delong, May 14th, which has no spots
in the fore-wing. This latter insect was examined by Mr.
Druce and provisionally referred to this species. Also re-
corded from Kina Balu, Palawan and Mindanao.
Hasora chuza, Hew.
Taken on or near mountain streams from the Madihit to
Batu Lawi at altitudes ranging from 1000-5000 ft. Occurs in
Burma and Java.
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Bibasis uniformis, Elwes.
Madihit, May 16th. his species (or possibly Hasora
vitta, Butl.) was the only butterfly 1 saw on the higher slopes
of Batu Lawi, 5,600 ft. Found in Java, Palawan and Luzon.
Rhopalocampta crawfurdi, Dist.
Madihit, June 5th. Usually found on the summit of Mt.
Matang. Also occurs in the Malay Peninsula.
Ismene etelka, Hew.
Salindong, June 9th and 12th, and Madihit, May 15th.
This species has been taken on IXina Balu and at Lawas; it is
also recorded from Singapore.
Tsmene harisa, Moore.
Madihit, alt. 2,000 ft., June Sth. A rare species in
Sarawak. Recorded from Sikkim, Burma and Java.
Jambria stellifer, Butl.
Two examples from Limbang. Fairly common in
Sarawak; also recorded from Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and
Java.
Scobura martini, Elwes.
One specimen from Mt. Derian, alt. 4,500 ft., May 26th.
The species is described from a single specimen in the Roths-
child collection from the Batak Mts., Sumatra. From the
literature available this Sarawak capture appears to be the
first record of the species for Borneo and at the same time the
second known specimen in existence.
Scobura umbrosa, Elwes.
A single example known from Salindong, June 11th; this
species is described from two examples taken on Mt. Kina
Balu. There appear to be no other records of it.
Koruthawialos hector, Wats.
Madihit, May 20th. Widely distributed over Malaya.
Halpe gupta, de Nicév.
A single example from Mt. Selinguid 4,850 ft., May 31st.
Unfortunately in bad condition and doubttfully identified thus
by Mr. Druce. Recorded from Sikkim only.
Pithauria aitchinsom, Wd.-Msn.
A single example taken at Kuala Madalam on the Lim-
bang, May 11th . A rare species described from Kina Balu.
Piepers records it from Java.
Kerana gemmifer, Butl.
On the way down Mt. Derian to the rivers Kri, May 27th.
Not rare in Sarawak. Also recorded from the Malay Penin-
sula and Natuna Isles.
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APPENDIX VIL.
A New Gryilacrid. +
By Dr. A. GRIFFINI.
Gryllacrid Grassii. n. Sp.
6, 2 - Corpus statura media, sat majore, superne saturate fer-
rugineum, sublus partim cyanescens; coxis, femoribus
libiisque omnibus et tolis pulcherrime cyaneis, tarsis pal-
lide ferrugineis; spinis peduim optime evolutis, cyaners ;
pleuris cyaneo tinctis. Verlice capitis et metazona pro-
nolt partum cyaneo pictis; maculis ocellaribus perspicus,
antennis ferrugines. Slytris subhyalinis, basi partenr
cyaneo tinclis, caelerum venis venulisq ve picescentibus
valde expressis. Alis subhyalinis, venis et venulis valde
expressis, in campo antico picescentibus, im campo postico
brunneis; in campo postico venulae ipsae sub lente for-
tiori videntur subtillime pallidae, utrinque angustissime
brunneo marginatae. Segmento anali $ utrinque dente
spiniformi horizontali, posterius verso, armato. Oviposi-
tore 2 longo, ensiformi, perparum ineurvo, rugido, la-
trusculo, apice atlenuato, basi cuanescente, apicem versus
magis magisque ferrugineco.
Longitudo corporis mm. 30 32
* pronotr @ 7 oD
a8 elytrorum oy Oese On
‘3 femorum anticorunr psn lake 11,4
. femorum posticorum Atos dbs) 20,3
3 ovipositoris — 23,9
Hasirat: Mons Turan apud Batu Lawi in Insula Borneo.
Typr: 16 et 12 (Musaei Hist. Natur. in Sarawak): Batu
Lawi expedition, 26-5-1911. .
Species apud Gr. borneensem D. H. in systemate Brunneri
locanda, sed permultis notis distinguenda.
Corpus sat maiusculum, haud crassum; nitidum.
Caput ovoideum subelong atum, pr onoto parum latius, anterius
depressiusculum. Vertex optime CONVEXUS ; fastigium verticis
minus convexum, lateribus obtuse rotundatis, latitudinem 1s primi
articuli antennarum sensim superans, duplam tamen non attingens.
Maculae ocellares flavido-ferrugineae perspicuae, verticis sub-
obliquae seu inferius magis divergentes ibique subacutae: macula .
frontalis sat magna, ovata vel subrotundata. Frons sub lente
minutissime incerteque transverse rugulosa, utrinque impressione
punctiformi unica vel duplici praedita, inferius magis depressa et
supra clypeum impressa. Organa buccalia longiuscula; palpi
labiales apice dilatati. Sulci suboculares inferius late excavati.
* Reprinted from ‘Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali’, Vol. LI,
pp. 129—134.
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90 AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI.
Color capitis saturate ferrugineus; vertex longitudinaliter in
medio (¢) vel totus (92) atro-cyaneo tinctus, Clypeus
leviter pallidior, ferrugineo-testaceus, puncto nigricante utrinque
plus minusve incerto pictus. Labrum et mandibulae cum capite
concoloria, saturate ferruginea. Palpi partim fuscescentes. An-
tennae ferrugineae sat pallidae, ochraceac, articulis primis duobus
incerte parum fuscioribus.
Pronotum a supero visum sensim longius quam latins, in
inedio bene convexum. Margo anticus rotundatus et prominults ;
sulcus anticus valliformis Jatus, amplus, et a margine antico
sat remotus; sulculus longitudinalis abbreviatus in fossulis
duabus, antica et postica, parum expressis, disjunctus :
suleus posticus haud perfecte delineatus, tamen gibbula in utroque
latere adest ante metazonam: pars antica metazonae plus minusve
valliformis, margo posticus limbatus, subascendens, subrectus.
Lobi laterales longiores quam altiores, posterius sensim altiores,
angulo postico late subrotundato, margine postico subverticali sat
alto, sinu humerali modice expresso : sulci et gibbulae in lobis late-
ralibus optime eyoluti.
Color pronoti ut capitis saturate ferragineus; metazona atro-
cyaneo tincta, indefinite tamen, hoc colore anterius in colorem
ferrugineum evanido et incertissime in medium dorsi et in sulco
antico sub quadam luce partim hic ile rursus visendo.
Elytra modice longa, tamen apicem abdominis bene supe-
rantia, apicem versus latiuscula, latitudinem maximam circiter
mm. 13 attingentia, subhyalina, levissime grisescentia, venis
venulisque robustis, picescentibus, basim versus atro-cyanescen-
tibus: basis elytrorum ipsa colore cyaneo violaceo nitente tincta,
praecipue im campo postico, indefinite tamen, hoc colore per
longitudinem circiter 10 mm. visendo, gradatim minus saturato,
denique sine limite evanido.
Alae subhyalinae; venis venulisque bene expressis. fuscis,
in campo antico (latiusculo) venis elytrorum similibus, 1deoque
ibi picescentibus, in campo postico venulis ipsis sub lente fortiori
subtillime pallidis, utrinque angustissime brunneo marginatis.
Pedes elongati et robusti, spinis omnibus optime evolutis et
pilis singulis paucis, sparsis, longiusculis, praediti. Color coxarwm,
femorum et tibiarum omnium pulcherrime cyaneus valde nitens,
in atro-cyaneum et praecipue in azureo-violaceum sub lucis qui-
busdam vergens; tarsi, contra, omnes ferruginei pallidi, seu
ochracei vel “‘ferrugineo- flavidi.
Tibiae 4 anticae solito modo spinosae, spinis utrinque 4
concoloribus cyaneis, longis, necnon utrinque spinula apicali
praeditae. Femora postica basi sat incrassata, dein longe atte-
nuata, tamen haud gracilia, subtus utroque margine toto spinoso,
spinulis concoloribus cyaneis, sat robustis, in utroque margine
circiter 10-15. Tibiae posticae superne longiuscule post basim
modice planiusculae, spinis utrinque 7 fortioribus, concoloribus
eyaneils. ‘Tarsi longiusculi.
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Gryllacris Grassi 3
Abdomen superne saturate ferrugineum, margine postico
segmentorum parum distincte fusciori, segmentis apicalibus sensim
fuscioribus ; subtus cum pleuris plus minusve cyaneo tinctum.
é- Segmentum abdominale dorsale VIII parum plus. quam
VII productum, parce fulvo pilosulum. Segmentum IX haud
longius, parum cucullatum, superne magis fulvo pilosum, margine
postico arcum efficiente fere verticaliter positum, valvulas anales
approximatas, optime visendas, sursum versas apiceque in mucro-
nem anterius recurvum terminatas, amplectente. Margo ipse
segmenti IX utrinque, parum supra cercum, dentem spiniformem
posterius horizontaliter versum praebet. Cerci ferruginei. La-
mina subgenitalis transversa, lateribus posterius obtuse rotundatis,
margine apicali in medio late sinuato, lobis latis, obtusis. Styli
laterales adsunt, sat longi et robusti.
@- Ovipositor longus, ensiformis, compressus, perparum
incurvus, rigidus, nitidus, basi cyanescens, apicem versus magis
magisque ferrugineus, post basim fere 2 mm. altus, a basi ad apicem
sensim sed parum attenuatus, apice subacuto tamen haud acu-
minato; lateribus longitudinaliter costula incerta perparum
visenda, latiuscule depressa, praeditis. Lamina subgenitalis sub-
triangularis, vertice rotundato.
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92 AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI.:
APPENDIX. Vike
List of the Odonata taken on an expeditiou to Mt. Batu
Lawi together with descriptions of supposed new
species.
By F. F. LAIpLaw, M.A.,:¥.Z.8., ELC.
WITH PLATE.
‘The list given below adds several species to the known Bornean
fauna and includes a high percentage of undescribed forms. It
will be noticed that probably all the Agrioninae are new to science,
a fact which enables one to realize how imperfect our knowledge
of the dragonflies of the old world tropics still remains.
Consequent on this it follows that the systematic arrangement
of the Agrionine genera in particular is highly unsatisfactory,
which is to be the more regretted in that these insects are no doubt
capable of affording valuable clues for the elucidation of many
problems of distribution. Carefully made collections from other
parts of Borneo, from the Celebes, and Philippine Islands, especially
from the mountains, no less than from other parts of the Malay
Archipelago are much to be desired in order to amplify the re-
searches of de Selys, Ris, Kruger, Martin, and others, who have
devoted attention to the distribution of the Austro-Malayan Odo-
nate fauna. I wish to offer my sincere thanks to Mr. Moulton for
the time and trouble he has spent in making this collection and in
putting it and much other valuable material in my hands for
examination. I take the opportunity here also of recording my
indebtedness to Dr. Ris and to M. Martin for the generous assis-
tance they have so cordially extended to me at all times.
Interature. In addition to the volumes of the Catalogue of
the “ Collections zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps ”
dealing with the Odonata, which have so far appeared, which Dr.
Ris and M. Martin have compiled, the following papers of recent
date have been consulted. For earlier papers dealing with the
odonate fauna of the Malayan region reference should be made
to the very full bibliography given by Kriiger in his studies on the
Odonata of Sumatra.
Kruger. Die Odonaten von Sumatra. Stett. entomol. Zeit.
1898, pp. 64-139, and pp. 267-331; 1899, pp. 324-338; 1902, pp.
58-193,
fis. Extr. des Ann. Soc. Ent. de Belge LY. 1911, pp. 231-
255 Libellen von Sintang, Borneo.
Williamson. Proc. U. S. Nat.. Mus. XX XIII pp. 267-317,
190%. ‘The dragonflies of Burma and Lower Siam.—II. Sub-
families Cordulegasterinae, Chlorogomphinae, and Gomphinae.
Tour. Straits Branch
West, Newman lith.
GENITAL APPENDAGES OF BORNEAN ODONATA.
Fig. 1.—Lateral view of genital appendages of second abdominal segment of
Leptogomphus williamsont 3.
Fig. 2.—Anal appendages of Leptogomphus williamsont § seen from the side.
Fig. 3.—Lateral view of terminal segments of abdomen of Hyleothenis
clementia, Ris, 9.
Fig. 4.—Lateral view of anal appendages of A. remiger 3.
Fig. 5._-Lateral view of anal appendages of Pseudagrion (2) dubium g.
AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 93
List of Species.
I. Anisoptera.
AESCHNIDAE.
AESCHNINAE.
Amphiaeschna grubaueri, Forster. 19 Madihit. 24.5.11.
Jagoria modiglianii, Selys. Mt. Selinguid, 4,800 ft. 31.5.1.
GOMPHINAE.
Leptogomphus wiliamsom, sp. n. 126 Madihit, alt. 2,000 ft.
4.6.11.
LIBELLULIDAE.
LIBELLULINAE.
Hylaeothemis clementia, Ris. Limbang.
Neurothemis fluctuans, Fabr. 16 2 2 Limbang. 20.6.11.
Lyriothemis cles, Brauer. Limbang. 20.6.11.
Orthetrum sabina, Drury. 1é6 Limbang. 20.6.11.
Orthetrum chrysis, Selys. 1¢ 12 Madihit. 21.5.11.
Orthetrum clelia, Selys. 1¢ Limbang. 11.5.11.
Il. Zygoptera.
AGRIONIDAE.
CALOPTERYGINAE.
Matronoides cyaneipennis, Forster. 6¢ 6 stream below Mt Selin-
guid and on -stream below Mt. Batu Lawi, 3,800 it.
30.5.1.
Euphaea, sp. 192 Limbang. 16.5.11.
Rhinocypha, sp. undescribed. 126 Mt. Selinguid, 4,800 ft.
atoll,
Devadetta argyroides, Selys. 16 River below Selinguid. 31.5.11.
AGRIONINAE.
Trichocnemis nemoricola, sp. n. -2 6 .27.5.11.
Amphicnemis remiger, sp. a. 11.65.11.
Teinobasis rajah, sp. n. Limbang. 22.611.
Pseudagrion (?) dubium, sp. n. 27.5.11.
Disparoneura moultoni, sp.n. 1 ¢@. 11.5.11.
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94 AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI.
NOTES ON THE SPECIMENS AND DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES.
Amphiaeschna grubauen, Forster. 19. 24.5.11.
A large and handsome species, new to the Bornean fauna.
Appears to differ from A. perampla, Martin, which has been re-
corded from Borneo in its slightly larger size, and very narrow fork
to Rs. Hind-wing in A. peranupla 2 62 mm. long, in A. grubauert
2 (present specimen) 70 mm. long. Also in A. “grubaueri ? the
outer half of each wing has a yellow tinge in addition to the dark
brown mark at the base, whilst the thorax is entirely rich brown
anteriorly with a pair of yellow stripes on either side.
Jagoria modighaniu, Selys. 12 Mt. Selinguid, 4,800 ft. 31.5.11.
Length of abdomen 45 mm. Length of hind-wing 44 mm.
Approximates in size to Needham’s Dolaeschna elacatura which
is regarded by Dr. Ris as synonymous with the present species, as
is also the smaller Jagoria poeciloptera, Karsch, or at least speci-
mens from Singapore referred to that species.
GOMPHINAE.
Leptogomphus williamsoni, sp. n. 6 adult. Locality Madiluit,
alt. 2,000 ft.
Length of abdomen with appendages 34 mm., hind-wing 25
mm.
A single row of cells in the anal area of the fore-wing. A
basal sub-costal nerve of the second series present in all four wings.
Dorsal thoracic stripe isolated, yellow ante-humeral stripe present,
complete. A pair of small lateral basal yellow spots on abdominal
segments 3-7. Segments 8-10 black, with an oval yellow dorsal
spot on 10. Legs black. 15 ante-nodals and 10 post-nodals on
fore-wing. Upper lip black with yellow base; genae yellow; vertex
brown, the rest of the upper surface of the head black.
Prothorax black with lateral yellow spot.
Thorax black above, variegated with yellow; yellow below.
Mesothoracic half-collar wedge-shaped, the base of the wedge
lying close against the middle line, the dorsal stripe narrow; ante-
humeral stripe continuous with the yellow of the undersurface.
Anal appendages very dark brown. Upper pair laterally com-
pressed, about equal in length to segment 10, ending in a sharp,
upturned point, the outer border w ith 4 or 5 strong serrations, the
most proximal of these being the largest, and forming a projecting
tooth against which the Henan ier tion “ot the lower appendage bites.
Lower appendage equal in length to upper pair, its distal half
forked so that it ends in two widely divaricated spurs. (See fig.
Be
This new species approaches Microgomphus in possessing but a
single row of cells in the anal area of the fore-wing. If the species
is correctly referred to Leptogomphus—and in so referring it I
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AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 95
have the support of Dr. Ris, a slight alteration becomes necessary
in the definition of the genus pr oposed by Wilhamson, namely that
the anal field of the front wing may consist of a single row, or of a
maximum of two rows of cells.
Hylaeothemis clementia, Ris. 192 Limbang.
Described from a single male in the Selys collection. Length
of abdomen 2 23mm. 4 23 mm. , hind-wing Q@ 27mm. ¢ 25 mm.
In coloration the female is practically identical with the male
described by Dr. Ris. The eighth abdominal segment has well deve-
loped lateral foliations. The ventral plate of this segment ends at
the level of the end of the segment in a pair of blunt ‘almost s square
projections one on either side of the middle line, with a median
notch between them. ‘The ventral plate of the ninth segment has
posteriorly a slight median rounded projection which at its free
margin is fringed with rather stout hairs some of which project
downwards (see fig. 3). Except that segment 8 has well marked
lateral expansions the arrangement of the terminal segments of the
abdomen resembles very closely that figured by Dr. Ris for the
African Allorhizucha klingi, Karsch. Ris remarks that the struc-
ture of the genital armature of the male Hylaeothemis allies it to
the group of genera to which Allorhizucha klingi belongs. Mr.
Moulton’s specimen has only two nerves on the basal space of both
hind wings and the supratriangular space of the right fore-wing
is uncrossed.
CALOPTERYGINAE.
Matronoides cyaneipennis, Forster.
Six males of this magnificent insect were obtained by Mr.
Moulton from a mountain torrent which flows between Mt. Selin-
guid and Batu Lawi at an altitude of about 3,800 ft. This is a
new locality for the species hitherto recorded only I believe from
Mt. Kina Balu. The single specimen belonging to the genus
Huphaea is a female, and at present it is unfortunately impossible
to determine the species of isolated females of that genus.
The Rhinocypha belongs to a species of which the description
has not yet been pub lished. Mr. Martin however, has already
named and described speciznens belonging to the same _ species,
in his volume on the Calopteryginae of the de Selys collection,
which is now in the press and shortly to be published. Accor dingly
I pass it over here. ;
AGRIONINAE.
Coeliccia (Trichocnemis) nemorioia, sp.n. 26 6. 27.511.
é. Length of abdomen 50 mm. Length of hind-wing 32 mm.
Median sector rises from nodal vein. 19 post-nodal nerves 1n
fore-wing. Pterostigma black. Wings iridescent,
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96 AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI.
Head. lower lip whitish-brown, upper surfaces entirely yel-
vety-black.
Prothorax white below, above black with indications of a paler
mark on either side.
Thorax white below, above and on the sides velvety black.
There is an indication of a narrow antehumeral stripe on either
side, of a dull black purple colour, and of a band of similar colour
at the base of the side of the thorax. During life it is possible
that these bands are of a brighter colour.
Abdomen entirely dull “black (in one specimen there is some
trace of lighter colour on the dorsal side of segment 10) except for
the sides and under surface of the first and second segments which
are brownish-white.
Legs, anterior surface of femora and tibias white, dorsal
surfaces black, spines and tarsi black.
Anal appendages black, very similar in et and proportions
to those of C. octogesima. Upper pair # as long as lower pair,
rather stout, finger -shaped, flattened from side to side, with a small
inwardly and downw ardly directed tooth at about the middle of
their length on the under side. Lower pair slender cylindrical,
ending in a sickle-like curve, their extremities turned almost direct-
ly inwards to meet each other.
This species rivals in size C. orang Forster from the Malay
Peninsula, and with it stands as the largest described species of the
genus. It is further characterized by its very sombre coloration,
as well as by the shape of the anal appendages.
Amphicnemis remiger, nu. sp. 16 Kuala Madalam, Limbang
River, Sarawak. 11.5.11.
Length of abdomen 34 mm. Length of hind-wing 19 mm.
Upper lip metallic bronze-green, the whole of the upper sur-
face of the head greenish-black.
Prothorax metallic bronze- -green above, pale yellow below.
The posterior margin of the prothorax is produced on either side
into a sharply projecting angle, but there is no median spine.
The thorax is metallic bronze-green above; this colour ends
sharply immediately beyond the first lateral suture, where it is
succeeded by the pale primrose yellow of the sides and under sur-
face.
The abdomen has (as in other species) the dorsal surface of
the first two segments of a metallic green colour. The remaining
segments are dull brown above, paler beneath, the last four seg-
ments almost uniformly dull brownish black.
Legs primrose yellow, with a fine black ring at each articula-
tion.
Anal appendages white (see fig. 4). Upper pair slender, end-
ing in a dise so that they have rather a paddle-like shape. The
shaft a little bowed with a small dorsal tooth at its middle. Lower
Jour. Straits Branch
AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 97
pair rather shorter, slender, ending in an upturned point. (See
ne 1).
Wings with 11 post-nodal nerves on the anterior pair.
Pterostigmata grey with whitish margin, the upper border
decidedly shorter than the lower.
Perhaps nearest to A. furcala, Brauer, but decidedly smaller,
with short lateral angles to the prothorax. Those of A. furcata are
described as long, thin, cylindrical points.
Teinobasis rajah, sp. n. 26 6 Limbang. 22.6.11.
Length of abdomen 33 mm. Length of hind-wing 20 mm.
Pter ‘ostigma gray with ae e margin, oblong and a little oblique ;
not quite covering one cell. 13 post- -cubita! nervules.
Upper side of quadrilater: al having in the fore-wing two-fifths,
and in the hind-wing three-fifths of the length of the lower side.
Wings petiolated to ‘the basal post-costal nerve, which hes almost
at the level of the second antenodal. Colour orange-red and
bronze-green above, whitish yellow below.
Head: -—Lower lip, whitish-yellow, with long lobes. Upper
lip, orange with black lateral border. The rest of the head dark
bronze-green, with a narrow orange line across the nasus.
Prothorax :—Orange-red above, paler below.
J bove, paler at the sides and below,
with a fine bronze-green median longitudinal stripe.
Abdomen :—Segments 1-7 dull brown, 8-10 orange red. ‘The
three last segments a little stouter than the first seven, which are
very slender.
Legs yellow, with brownish-black spines.
Anal appendages reddish-brown; darker at their extremities.
Upper pair very small, cylindrical, curved inwards at their
extremities, with a small inwardly directed spur.
Lower pair of the same length, flattened from side to side,
directed backwards and upwards; ending in a fine black point.
iseuaagrion (?) dubwum, sp.n. 16. 275.11.
Length of abdomen 40 mm. .Length of hind-wing 27.5 mm.
Wings petiolated to basal post- -costal nerve, which hes at the
commencement of the distal third of its distance between the first
and second antenodal nerve. Arculus at the level of the second
antenodal nerve
Quadr ilateral rather long, its upper side in the fore-wing two-
thirds, and in the hind-wing three-quarters of the length ‘of its
lower side. Median sector rising beyond level of vein descending
from nodus.
Pterostigma small, black, oblique.
Head, small. Lower lip white. Upper surface entirely black
(there is a faint indication in the single specimen of a pair of post-
ocular marks which ee to be very shght depressions with a
bright light reflex; possibly due to post-mortem shrinkage).
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Prothorax and thorax rich blackish-brown above, pale below.
Laterally the thorax is paler brown, with an obscure blue-grey
humeral stripe.
Abdomen slender, entirely brownish-black, with indications of
paler marking on the dorsum of segments 8 to 9.
Legs yellow, with black articulations and a brown longitudinal
stripe on the dorsal side of the femora.
Anal appendages brownish black, the upper pair conical,
directed backwards, the lower pair running backwards and upwards,
narrower and more pointed than upper pair, both pairs shorter than
seoment 10 (see fig. 5).
Dr. Ris has examined the specimen and has kindly furnished
me with the following notes on it. “It is not a Teinobasis ag it
7 pas toothed claws and simple superior appendages; also evidence
“of post-ocular spots. The general form, the position of M 3 and
“RS. as well as the character of the superior appendages forbid its
“being referred to Pseudagrion without some stress to the defini-
“tion of the genus. In the absence of the @ the position of the
“specimen must remain doubtful. I have nothing to compare
“exactly with it, not even Pseudagrion magnanimum from the
“Aru Islands which also is not a Pseudagrion, but I think gene-
“rically distinct from the present specimen.”
Disparoneura moulton, sp. mn. 1¢. 11.5.11.
Length of abdomen 34 mm. Length of hind-wing 19 mm.
ITead:—Upper lip pale yellow, with fine black margin; the
rest of the upper surface of the head velvety black.
Prothorax.—Upper surface black, under side yellowish-white.
Thorav. Dorsal and lateral surfaces black, with a fine yellow
lateral stripe, under surface yellowish-white .
Abdomen. Brownish-black, a yellow mark on either side of
the second segment, and the under surface of segments 1 and 2
also yellow.
Legs. Brownish-black.
Anal appendages small, about equal in length to the 10th seg-
ment. Upper pair seen from above leaf shaped, pale yellow above,
edged with brownish black. Each has a small projection inwards.
Lower pair brownish-black, cylindrical, sharply curved inward at
their extremities: about equal im length to upper pair.
Wings. Pterostigma brownish- black, very oblique, lying over
one and one third cells. Basal post-costal nerve lying between the
level of the costal antenodal nerve. No rudiment of lower sector of
triangle. (Cu 2). 14 post-costal nerves in fore-wing.
Upper sector of quadrilateral reaching to the first cross nerve
after the quadrilateral in the fore-wing and to the second in the
hind-wing.
This species belongs to the group which includes species re-
ferred by Selys to the genus Caconeura (Alloneura) via: C. dor-
Jour. Straits Branch
AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 99
salis, gracillima, lansbergi, and hyperythra, as well as C. dohrnt
of Kruger.
Dr. Ris has most courteously permitted me to use a suggestion
of his as to the definition of the genera Disparoneura and Caco-
neura (Alloneura) which I have followed in referring the species
described above to Disparoneura, involving a change in the defini-
tion of the genus which will necessitate the transfer of all the
species mentioned above from Caconeura to Disparoneura. He
proposes to distinguish the genera as follows :—
(a) Basal post-costal nerve placed in a level with the first
antenodal or even proximal to it; no rudiment of Cu 2 (lower sector
of triangle) = Caconeura.
(b) Basal post-costal nerve placed at a level between antenodal
1 and 2, mostly about half-way; rudiment of Cu 2 present or ab-
sent = Disparoneura.
He points out that the rudiment of Cu 2 seems to be indivi-
dually and even asymmetrically variable in some species.
Consequently I refer the present species to Disparoneura in
the neighbourhood of the group of species named above.
R.A. Soc.. No. 63, 1912.
100 AN EXPEDITION TO
MOUNT BATU LAWI.
APPENDIX TEX
Some words in use among the natives met on the
journey to Batu Lawi.
’, MOULTON.
(T=Tabun, M= Murut, K = Kalabit).
above
accustomed
anger, wrath
animal
ask, enquire
back
banana
bathe, to
be, to
bear (animal)
bite, to
blaze, flare up
body
brave
bring forth a child
broad, wide
brother, elder
brother, younger
bucket, bailer
buffalo
bundle
buttons (of a coat)
buy
cicada
climb a tree
clouds (high in sky)
coat
cocoanut
comb, rake
come
corpse
cough
cunning
day
day after to-morrow
daylight
dead
debt
f por UL
mala ('T baka (M).
daloh (TY, musa (M).
po’ong (T’. M).
ngitin (T. M).
ratue. aye
baung (M).
dior (1 ME ia
inan (M), ian (T).
bruang (T. M).
ngetop (M. Kk).
ulohn apo (KX).
burur (ae aie
machil (a vie
iananak (T).
mélar (M. KX).
bikat (T).
Tic Gi baie
sa’ok kalud (T).
kerbau (T. M. K).
angglibun (T).
ta ud baju ee Ky
meli (T), blian (M).
tawar ioe bie
menud kayu (M).
bérawan (Kk).
baju (T), koiu (M).
bhutan (IK).
mudud (i. Mi kee
finching (T), meching (Ix).
botong (T. M).
masud (I);
akal-(T. M. IK).
chor (i Make:
seriak (M. K).
mitsang chor (‘T. M. Ix).
mateh (T. M).
mangud ane baloh (Ix).
Jour. Straits Branch
AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 101
depilatory forceps
descend (from house)
descend (from hill)
divide, shade
do not (prohibitive)
log
drink
drop, fall, be shed,
dry or fair weather
ear
earth, soil, land
eat
ese
elbow
far
fear, afraid
fell, jungle, to
fine
fire
fish
flood, fresh in river
fly, a
fly, to
forget
former, long time, old
fowl
fruit
give
go down river,
gold
good, all right
erasshopper
hand
hatred
head
heavy
here, come
hole
how
how many, how much
I, me
inclined, aslant
jump, dive
jungle
key, lock
kill
imee
knife (small)
R.A. Soc., No. 63, 1912.
opit (‘T).
a ame, (OR), ae ete, (UO),
musul (T. I M).
moullomau (AE VE):
yan (M).
ms@ie (I),
TION) ING)
p'rogan (M), rurogue (I).
rikan (M), rikan (Kh).
lavinel, (Cane Wo).
eimai. (G0, WE).
Kamm (40, IML, I).
weremuce (CIR Ne
SicOlan (C0, Wile Ik),
mmacon = 1s).
ta‘aut (IT), metaut (M).
nibfung lemidik (‘Tl’), nibfung te-
marak, mbfung ribfa (M).
lneulings (Ik),
ayomul (CMI INL).
lawid (T. M).
meno aie. (Cle WO)
leulleacl (ule 1kO)).
ip ammo (CARS WO)
k’lupan (M. Kk).
lalit (M), dadan (K).
level (40. MO).
lie, (20, INDY,
méray, bray (T).
alone, (CLG TKO)e
enimars (DS Dr
ano, (G0), Clow (ub) ens (bE ie).
kataw (T. M).
enelome (CAN: a
geta (T. M
uloh (M. Ky
tooh (T).
metongi (M).
lobang (M. K).
mepakor (T), kudangpa (M).
Huila), (CARs ON
ououi (T), weh (M).
tberine (iP).
opun (M).
b’mptlong (M. K).
kunelai (VE 1)’:
ngatay (TT. M).
willoloy gaviruil) (CML, IKO).
mila (CICS TO)
102 AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI.
know, meaning, understand kiln (Me ie ae
know, do not know am kde (aye
lansat (fruit) lengat (M. K).
lathes for flooring lasat_(M. K).
laugh bulan (T), t’diru (M).
leap down murun (T).
leech (land) lematah (M. Kk).
leg ko’ud (T), kokod (M).
leg, from knee to ankle bet (ae):
lid, cover tutob (T), kub (M).
hight, clear mitsang (‘I’), mits-angtsaw (4M).
lips bibir (T. M).
loose ‘raru (M. K).
love bala burorr
man (Malay ‘ orang’) da’ (T), ida) (ee
man, where is he going? mengi d’na? (M).
measure nari (7. May
meet papu (T. M).
mist lapud, (Mie
money, hire belanjar (T).
monkey (brok, MJacacus nemes-
trinus ) bechok (T).
monkey (kra, W/. cynomolqus) kalabut (T).
moon bulan (T. M).
more béru (M. K).
mosquito ritak (M), namok (K).
mosquito large tukong (M).
mosquito curtain kelaboh (T), tirun (M).
mother ina (7); tina (ie
mud, siime tanah liar (M. K).
naked lubfa (The
near munung (T. M).
new, recent baru (T),; bara (Mie
no, not la (T), nam: (Miia
no, 1s not la ian (T), nam inan (M).
obtain, acquire kalap (T).
open oukab (> Mis
other, different lumbukan (M. K).
picture arid. (Mie eye
pig (domestic) brak (T. M).
pig (wild) baa GE
pillow unan (T), legar (M).
pleasant, nice main (M. K).
porcupine t’‘rotong (M. K).
pull, drag ngéruid (T. M).
put, place wu (TE), newness
race, kind, species bancha (TT), limbawang (M).
rain mudan (M. K).
raise, lift géntch (T), niding (M).
Tour. Straits Branch
AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 103
remember ngéroui (T), k’li (K).
remnant, trace oban (T).
resist, oppose, combat lawan (M. K).
return a thing, turn over lubad (T), lemubad (M).
return, retaliate untia (T), unwa (M).
rice (boiled) obah (M. K).
rice (uncooked ) | brah (4D. MM).
rise, ascend t™maktid (M. Kk).
river arone (bs Mil Ke).
roof, leaf or wood tiles of apaw (T).
root ware (Mr).
rope, string lupar (T. M).
round (like a coin, round and
flat ) libore .@P.c Mb),
round (expressing circumfer-
ence, ¢.g. of a bamboo) teburun (T. M).
round about, all round s‘libong (M. Kk).
run away buror (M. K).
scales (of fish, tortoise) era CDs Meee).
scrape, to, rub gugut (M. K), sugi (T).
sea lau'ud (M. K).
see mawan (M. K),
seed ilong (T. M).
shade, shelter lungong (M. XK),
sharp tadans (2. MM).
shoulder tudong (T. M).
shoot, to madil-(‘T. M).
sing mumuh (M. Kk).
sky lanenia(h. oM.K),
sleep, to rudap (T. M).
smell maba’ (T. M).
smoke rabfun (T).
soft, flexible har (M. K).
something la‘kub (T).
sound uni (T. M).
spear bakou (T), gaman (M).
spider aK lawa, (MEK)
spit, to saliva, lecha (M. K).
squeeze, press m’r’gam (T), misak (M).
star bituan (T. M).
stone batres@r Mi):
stop udcho- (DE. .M).
straight, direct cirie (M), toptid (K).
swallow, to krau/arr (T).
swift, fleet mauérr (M. K).
swim lemangoi (T), lemangwi (M).
take, accept, fetch apan (T'). |
throw away Ty Lag (le Me
thus, in this manner okoni (T).
R.’A. Sac., No. 63, 1912.
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104 AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI.
tobacco sigup (Tey
to-morrow nubfar (T. M).
tooth lipan (M. K).
trouble, care tusah, susah (T. M. K).
true tho. (ike
trunk (of tree) batang (T. M).
under liane. (ye
untrue balih (T. M).
wages i btars (ae
wait, delay
walk, go
nat (Me ap
nalan (IK).
nador t6’6r (M), emphasized by
repeating the last word thus;
nador to’or to6’or,
nang: (Tie
walk along the ridge of a moun-
tain (or follow the direction
of a mountain )
weep, shed tears
what min (aye
when idang (T. M).
none in T. M.
nisiuih (T), nisiok (M. K).
jaina (T), idaina (Biase):
nechong (T), nechung (M).
which (relative) Malay = yang
whistle
who? which ?
widow, widower
wind barii (T), bui (M).
wound maurah (M. K).
you kam (T), ’kor (M).
(you go first, malan ‘kor potn).
NUMERALS IN TABUN AND MorovtT.
1 sa 5 limah 9° Se wa
2 dua 6 “nam 10 puloh
3. telar + ~=©tudoh 11 puloh sa
4 pat 8 aloh 100 ma’ratu
1000 ma’ribu,
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