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and plans were made regarding getting men and boats to take us up stream.
     The Dyaks here are of a tribe closely related to the "Segah" Dyaks of Beraoe and are called "Modung" Dyaks. Both Olmeyer and I were anxious to see them, so we had several of them come here this evening and had a long talk with them.

February 2, 1914.
  Long Bleh. 
  
      During the night we had a heavy thunder storm and with very much lightning, and as the roof directly over me leaked, I did not get much rest. 
    The Dyaks which the chiefs had promised us did not turn up this morning as promised, but I was not much surprised, for I rather expected we would have to wait a day or two. 
    This morning Olmeyer and I, with several natives, as escorts, went across the river and visited the dilapidated and partly deserted "Lamin" or long house of the Dyaks. The Lamin is not long and straight as they usually are, but rather a disjointed affair, composed of several houses connected by a plank walk of iron wood planks propped up from four to eight feet above the ground. The house is a one story house but this one story is the top one and is higher than the average two story American house. From the edge of the river we walked on big logs for about a hundred yards and then on the above mentioned plank walk, finally ascending three long "tangd" or logs with nitches cut in them to act as stairways which brought us to the living quarters which were exceptionally dirty and dark, and only one part was occupied; the deserted part was deserted because the floor had given away. (We were in constant fear of falling
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