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Shoot three Ratufas, two Scuirus atricapillus and two birds and see two specimens of Sciurus borneensis which is more common here than anywhere.I have been but they are so quick that I do not have time to shoot; they seem only simi-arboreal.

Afternoon and evening rainy.

March 16, 1914.
Early in the morning hunt to the westward and get a couple of squirrels. I let Lekio take the rifle and he hunted until noon but got nothing. Rain early in the afternoon. .Start about 8:00 P.M., with Ulih, Lekio and Jupe, in a canoe and hunt down stream for about two miles and get a mouse-deer and a tiger-cat; return about midnight in the rain.

The fangs of the tiger cat (Felis Nebulgas) are in a great demand by the Dyaks and Lekio begged me very hard for those of this specimen.

March 17, 1914.
I have no more 12 go. shot cartridges so cannot get many specimens. During the night there was heavy rain and it must have been even heavier upstream for the river had risen between ten and fifteen feet during the night and I was surprised to see water flowing beneath me when I awoke this morning. Go down stream in a canoe with Gano, Arup, and Jupe and fix a net in the mouth of a small tributary of the river and in three hours' time, when the water had fallen ten or eleven feet, we got some fine fish; other Punans had done likewise and had had good luck also.

About 4:00 P.M., leave the house with Lekio and hunt to the northwest, get one bird only but find many durians and some yellow durians "Tay", but most of the yellow ones had been eaten by a bear before we came.

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