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the loaded boxes & put them in the sapit & in the afternoon borrow Mr. Olmeyer's bicycle & do many errands about town & get money from the Borneo Sumaltra Handel My. & as the Bajows do not want to start until to-morrow morning, I made a picture of Mr. Olmeyer's family and went to the photographer's & for a bicycle ride with him & spent the night at his house & got to bed about 11:30.

Tuesday, July 16, 1912.
Mahakkam R.
Cl., C.
Arise at Mr. Olmeyer's about 6:00 & have breakfast with him & then go to Mr. Gray's & see to getting the rest of the outfit on the Bajow's prau, pack my clothes in a box & leave my good clothes at Mr. Olmeyer's in my trunk. Have more trouble than usual in starting as the Bajows said they could not load my pickle barrel, which was finally done, say good-bye to Mr. & Mrs. Gray, Mr. & Mrs. Olmeyer & several others & after going to the P.O. & getting a letter from Dr. A. & F.A. leave Samarinda in the Bajows' prau & go down the Mahakkam; catch a young munyit.

Wednesday, July 17, 1912.
N.E. coast Borneo.
R., Cl., R.
5:00; we slept in the sapit in the mouth of the Mahakkam, Moera Badak, & started out at daylight; it was raining & nasty/. We followed the coast at a distance of from 1/2 to 2 miles & passed very close to Pulo Barat Basa. I can see that the Bajows are good sailors & know the coast. Yesterday, coming down the Mahakkam, they stopped & cut a palm (pandan) & to-day cut the leaves in the shape of a fish & used it like a blue fish squid & caught a fine fish. As it was raining we stopped for the night at Sangata [[handwritten symbol: transpose, switch two words]] Moera.