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Sunday, June 22, 1913. 
  Labuan Klambu.
      
      After going over the traps I returned to the prahn and although the tide had begun to ebb we pulled, poled and rowed the prahn until we reached the centre of the pool at the head of the lake where I washed all the skins which I had in pickle. 
      With the boys I paddled to the inlet and baited all the traps and got back just at dusk and managed to shoot three little bats while it was yet light enough to see.

Monday, June 23, 1913.
    Tabuan Klambu.

        Hunt to the north of the inlet and in the middle of the after-noon climb up over the sharp rocks at the head of the pool for about half a mile and get a fine specimen of Mustel[[i]]d. None of my natives had seen this animal and perhaps it has no name here. 
     Here there are no real hills and valleys but everywhere scooped out holes and sharp rocky mounds, all heavily forested, though there is very little earth except in the holes.

Tuesday, June 24, 1913.
   Labuan Klambu.

       When I got back to the prahn this morning after going to the traps we brought the prahn to her former harbor at the entrance of the lake. 
       As I was in a hurry to look over the traps I did not take the gun along and thus missed a chance to get a beautiful argus pheasant. The sun had not yet risen and it was not very light beneath the trees. I was just about at the end of the line of traps and going along quietly when about thirty feet before me I saw this argus pheasant
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