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in the house of the Kepala kampong. 
   During the evening, the Kepala kampong told us how the year before ten of his companions had been eaten by a crocodile which would grab the people as they bathed at the edge of the river.
   Though we have passed some low isolated hills, most of the country is low, and most of the time it is flooded, either by over-flow from the river or by rain water. 

January 31, 1914. 
    Tuana Tua to Kembang Djanggoet. 

        As we continue up stream, a slight narrowing of the river is about the greatest difference in the character of the landscape.
      Kembang Djanggoet was reached late in the afternoon; this is a rather long Malay kampong. We spent the night in the Kepala District's house.
      At nearly all the places we have stopped, we have gotten fruit of some variety; here Radin Moesah gave us some fine durians. 
      At dusk I shot a black monkey (Buis) not far from the Radin's house.
  
February 1, 1914. 
  Kambank Djanggoet to Long Bleh.

     Start early in the morning and reach Long Bleh just at sundown. Long Bleh is a very old Diak kampong, but at the present time is a combined Malay and Diak kampong, with the Dyak kampong on one side of the river and the Malays on the other side. 
     There is a house built of kajangs which serves as a "Pasang Grahan" [[Pesanggrahn written in the margin]] and from the launch we put our baggage into this house which is owned by the Sulton of Koetie. 
    The "Petingies" or chiefs of the kampongs came in the evening
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