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The Chinaman has been half seasick for the last four or five days and does nothing but lay about as if in a stupor.  I shall be glad when I can get ashore and give him something to do.  We were becalmed a good part of the day and about 2:00 P.M. I had a good bath in the sampan but had to keep close to the prah[[strikethrough]]n [[/strikethrough]]^[[u]] for the sun was unmerciful.

We were about eight miles from shore when a breeze finally came and it was from the northeast or just enough east so that we could not make Pulo Miang; when we got closer to shore the wind shifted two or three times and we finally anchored near Gunong Sekaret about 2:00 A.M.

Tuesday, March 18, 1913.
Near Mount Sekaret.

There was no wind when I awoke so I took the gun and went ashore in the "jonkong", canoe, with Boega and walked westward along the beautiful sandy beach until we reached a small stream where there was fine cold fresh water, the first I have tasted since Samarinda.  The jungle along the shore is typically tropical, there being several varieties of palms including four or five coconut trees and also rotans which make the jungle anything but a good hunting ground.

There came a slight head wind so we all went ashore again after "makan" and bathed in the stream and opened a few young coconuts and I tried to go up the stream in a canoe but it was only ten feet wide and clogged with fallen trees.

At night I went ashore and hunted along the breach for about two  miles to the eastward where there was a tiny brook.  When looking