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    Storks and herons are also said to be very common.
    The mammals of the island are rats, Nasalis larvatus, Pithecus (common), Pteropus & Cynopterus.

Friday, June 13, 1913.
   Pulo Eraban & Kalindakin.
    When I had finished preparing the rats and got something to eat, I went ashore and again hunted among the coconuts, followed about by half a dozen or more natives who were always anxious to see me shoot.

    About 4:00 P.M. I left Eraban and about an hour later reached Kalindakin, where I had heard that lembu were very common.  Two natives from Eraban and Tambie Lawang and a companion follwed me here; as they knew the ground, I told them that if they came and hunted with me to-night I would surely give them the meat of a deer or a lembu.  Thus with four natives I hunted from shortly after dark until after midnight and killed two buck deer and a pig but saw no lembu which I am very anxious to get.  Here there are possibly 1,000 coconut trees from four to six years old and would be bearing if they were not constantly ravaged by monkeys and squirrels.  The former owner of the coconuts half finished a house at the edge of the sea but now he occupies a grave within a few yards of it.

Saturday, June 14, 1913.
   Kalindakin & Tg. Buaja Buaja.
     My natives have been quarreling and ready to fight with their knives, so as such doing interfere with the work, I have decided to go to Tg. Buaja Buaja and release Maade and Ampong.  To-day I have been getting the skins from the two deer which I shot last night.  I have seen but very slight traces of lembu, though many natives have