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Tuesday, July 15, 1913.
To Landan.

The wind was still blowing hard this morning but had shifted to southwest, so we could just about lay a course to Tandjong Batoe Berlobang, but when we got in under the lee of the mountain, the wind came in fits and starts, sometimes dead ahead & sometimes astern, so finally we anchored to cook rice and then poled along the shore until late in the afternoon when we reached a place called Landas where there is a small river and a clearing and one native, a Bangerese. I went ashore and bathed and shot a couple of small birds and at dusk shot two large red flying squirrels and at night I hunted along the shore for three or four miles and got a porcupine and a mouse deer.

Wednesday, July 16, 1913.
Landas.

About seven o'clock this morning I started out with a Dyak and hunted for about four hours and got some birds & again this afternoon I went with this Dyak and we hunted until dusk and I shot a couple of squirrels & birds and at night I hunted along the shore until about 2:00 A.M. when I returned to the prahn and as there was practically no wind, we got up anchor and I went to sleep while Lautong and Nia poled the prahn to Labuan Penang.

Thursday, July 17, 1913.
Labuan Penang.

This place is not a very good harbor for a small prahn as there is a continuous roll swinging in. I made up some skins and then slept.

Friday, July 18, 1913.

This morning I talked to an old Arab here and he told me of a very large snake and I went with a Dyak and hunted for it but did

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