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told me this was the place to find them. I returned to the prahn about 3:30 P.M. and made up some birds left over from yesterday. After taking what little meat I wanted from the specimens of last night, I gave the carcasses to natives and they divided the meat and took it to their respective Kampongs, Eraban & Tg. Buaja [[superscript]] 2 [[/superscript]].

Sunday, June 15, 1913.
Kalindakin & Tandjong Buaja Buaja.

It was about 6:30 this morning when we left Kalindakin and sailed near Pulo Manimbora but had to wait two or three hours for the tide and finally reached Tg. Buaja about 4:00 P.M.; after arranging about my natives, I learned that there were two or three white people in the kampong, so I went and called on them. I met two fellows, geologists for the Nederlandsche Koloniall Petroleum My. which I believe is really a branch of the Standard Oil Co. They are prospecting for oil and will be going all along the coast. I dined with these fellows and talked to them as well as I could. One of the fellows, a German, Dr. Hartmann, has only been here in the east for a month and cannot speak Malay or English but by mixing Dutch, German, and English with Malay, we managed to understand each other.

Monday, June 16, 1913.
Tg. Buaja Buaja.

Dr. Hartmann came aboard my prahn this morning and I showed him my specimens and he seemed interested in them. The natives I had engaged did not show up and there seems to be none here that I can get, but a native coming from Samoentai says Tambie and Kabong will surely be here to-morrow morning.