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rats from the traps and with them, the monkeys, and the birds, I had a full day.

Friday, May 23, 1913.
   Pulo Muara Tua. (Paiung [[superscript: 2]])

     It has been raining by spells practically all day. I had a couple of birds and seventeen rats and when they were finished, I went on shore and shot some swifts.
     We intended to set sail for Sanga Laki to-night, but it got black and is now blowing a gale & raining.

Saturday, May 24, 1913.
   Pulo Muara Tua. (Paiung [[superscript: 2]] to Kubun Si Leong.)

     This morning we poled along the edge, hardly shore, of the island for about two or three miles to the clearing of Si Leong. 
     The wind was so that we could not sail. I hunted about the clearing which is composed of all the good land that there is, a strip from two to three hundred meters[[space?]]in width and more than a mile in length. It reaches from the water's edge to the edge of the rock of which the island is formed. The soil is mixed sand and black earth. Si Leong has planted about five or six thousand coconut trees, most of which are about a year old and healthy in appearance. There is also corn, taboo, kaladi,  ubi blahan, gadung, chabby and buah labu.
     There are three or four families of Banjer people and a couple of Bajan families. The Banjerese are working for Si Leong and the Bajans working one end of the clearing for themselves. I bought some vegetables from the Bajans and later the Banjer people came to the prahn and begged for salt, matches and tobacco in exchange for vegetables.