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different from those I have collected elsewhere. This morning I missed when I had a fine chance to shoot a squirrel with an enormous tail.

Monday, March 24, 1913.
   Tokong Tokong & to [[strikethrough]]T[[/strikethrough]]^[[L]]aboean Bini. 

   Before sunrise I was in the jungle this morning and started a long climb up the mountain near Sungai Perak, following the trail of some Basaps who had been cutting rotan and who had built their lapa[[strikethrough]]n[[/strikethrough]]^[[u]]s at the mouth of the stream. I am sorry they have left as they are of a [[strikethrough]]p[[/strikethrough]]^[[K]]ampong which has not been visited by europeans and by only a few [[strikethrough]] m [[/strikethrough]] ^[[M]]alays. The jungle here is ideal and I could hear argus pheasants on all sides but they are too wary to show themselves. A Dyak told me that he had never seen the argus pheasant while hunting but had caught many in "jerats" (snares). 
     I was almost at the top of a mountain when I came upon a band of Pygathrix rubic[[strikethrough]]mi[[/strikethrough]]^[[un]]da, and after following them for some distance, I got three fine specimens, also some squirrels and a bird.
     About 4:00 P.M., we left Tokong Tokong and sailed along the shore to [[strikethrough]]T[[/strikethrough]]^[[L]]aboean Bini, the harbor protected by a mangrove covered reef.
     Tambie paddled me along the edge of the Mangroves & I shot a couple of proboscis monkeys as a band of them entered the mangroves from the higher trees but did not get a shot. 
     When we reached [[strikethrough]]T[[/strikethrough]]^[[L]]aboean Bini, I went ashore to look at the deserted godong & lapa[[strikethrough]]n[[/strikethrough]]^[[u]]s (shelters) of Basaps & Malays who had formerly been gathering rattan here. Tambie called me, saying, "There is a dead child here; perhaps you want its bones." When