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April 14, 1914.
Laham.

About 2:00 P.M. go up stream with two Dyak boys and cross to the other side of the river and hunt back from the river for about two miles, following the ridge of a small range of hills; shoot a couple of squirrels. We had returned to the river and gotten into the canoe when we heard an animal growl; at first I thought it came from a dog but in a moment it growled again & we all thought it was a bear so I climbed ashore and followed but could not catch sight of it so wandered along the side of the hill. Of a sudden I was surprised to hear a rustling of the underbrush and had just time to put a shell loaded with buckshot back into the gun when the bear appeared and was coming in my direction about thirty feet from me; I shot with the buck shot but as it did not drop I gave him the other barrel with number four shot; after that he only went a few paces and dropped. I called the Dyak boys who had been in the canoe; they were surprised and delighted that I had gotten a bear for they were very much afraid of it. The Dyaks of the kampong here say this specimen is extremely large - (110 lbs.)

April 15, 1914.
Laham.

Yesterday and last night there was no rain and the river has gone down several feet; perhaps by day after to-morrow we can start for Long Iram if there is not a great deal more rain.

April 16, 1914.
Laham. 

First thing this morning, Jok, a Dyak boy, brought two pigmy squirrels (one N.Exilis) and about five o'clock this afternoon, another boy brought some small bats with rather long tails which

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