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 February 7, 1914
 Pondok Batu, Sungai Ritan.
  To find only one small rat with so many traps is very disappointing, but later in the day I collected some birds, a small Sciurus parvus and some bats, new to my collection.  These bats I collected late this afternoon in the cave about two hundred yards from its entrance.
  The entrance of the cave which we use as a shelter might be referred to as a false entrance as it is only penetrable of about twenty yards, but by climbing over the rocks outside in the ravine and following the stream,, we enter the cave and from down inside can see a hole partly clogged by rocks which connects with our shelter above.  For a few yards,, as we entered the cave, (wading in the stream) we had to stoop, for the top of the cave is low and comparatively smooth, as if at some former time it had been waterswept, then as the cave broadened, we stepped up on a soft bank of white sand and had to stoop even lower than before. A few feet further there was a great cleft in the rock above our heads which grew smaller towards its top,but as it was slanting,we could not see more than a few yards upwards.  A carbide or an electric reflector lamp would probably be much better for cave exploring than an oil lamp, for the chimneys of the oil lamps break, as a rule, whenever the lamp is anything more than slightly tilted.  Still further on, the cave broadened, but the stream flowed under a ledge, se we could not follow, but found another passage which came gain to the stream.  At this place the roof of the cave was high, possibly thirty feet, and it was hanging from the top of this place that I found these bats with white spots on the sides of their back.  As soon as the rays of light from the lamp would strike them, they would immediately