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continued on up stream, stopping once or twice to let the Dyaks gather fruit, though most of the fruit was not thoroughly ripe. The Dyaksalways seem to be watching for fruit when they are padd-ling, and one often hears them remark regarding the various fruits and trees.
    Just after dark we reached a "racket" or raft or logs on which was built a house, and not far back from the river; I was told there is a lamin of some "Kenyah" Dyaks but between the river and the lamin is a long stretch of flooded swamp, so we did not go up, though I should like to have done so. 
    Sleeping on the racket I gound quite comfortable though Olmeyer and Eko slept in prahns. 
    During the evening I caught a young python which crawled up on the raft and gave some of the natives a scare. 

February 4, 1914. 
    Racket to Long Bleh. 

       With a good early start and hard paddling and poling, we reached Muara Ritah, or the mouth of the Ritan river about half past three o'clock in the afternoon. Here is a "lamin" of Kenyah Dyaks and two small Malay houses on the other side of the river. 
       The lamin is over two hundred feet long and the frame work of enormous hewn timbers, whereas partitions are made of hewn boards and also of heavy bark.
       It was a fine sight to see about fifty male Kenyahs pounding and cleaning rice, preparing for a long journey to Upper Kajan. 
       Nearly all tribes of Dyaks are composed of both light and dark skinned individuals, but the Kenyahs are all light in color, being almost as white as Europeans or practically the same as Chinese. 
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