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them come aboard but have to be very watchful as stealing is no vice to them.
   At last I have gotten two Badja[[strikethrough]]n[[/strikethrough]]^[[u]]s and hope they will prove better than they look, Benche and Sadah. With them I went to the kampong up stream and bought some ubi kay[[strikethrough]]n[[/strikethrough]]^[[u]] and taboe and looked at a couple of natives that were  ick and hunted without success, although at dusk I saw many flocks of "pergum" and "putean" flying from the forest to the mangroves but they fly very high, higher than the tallest trees.

Monday, April 14, 1913.
Samoentai.
   I skeletonized the martin I got last night and as the tide was low I could do nothing but wrap some skeletons and stow them away. The men got a good lot of wood, possibly enough to last a month. Sadah took Ah Sing in the canoe to the head of the stream where he could bathe his burnt leg. I think it will soon be well, although it is now absolutely raw from top to bottom.
   About nine o'clock, I took Benche and went to the kampong up stream where I met Mah Si Lida and hunted for about three hours in the clearings and the jungle & got two mouse deer and an owl and returned to the boat about one o'clock ^[[A.M.]] just in time to cover up things before it rained very hard.

Tuesday, April 15, 1913.
Samoentai to Tanjong Proepoek.
   At sunrise I awoke and half an hour later we left the harbor with a light breeze from astern and sailed straight off shore for about three miles and then the wind shifted to the eastward and we had a squall with wind and rain, so anchored off the edge of a