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Have dinner and spend the night at Robinson's.

April 25, 1914.
Tenggarung.

Spend most of the day aboard, writing. Have lunch with Mr. Robinson.

Late in the afternoon, paddle around Pulo Tenggarung, an island about a mile long surrounded by the Mahakam River. We were within thirty feet of a crocodile (10 ft.?) which slowly swam by; it would have been useless to shoot; if killed,it would sink to the bottom immediately.

During the evening, develop two dozen plates and then throw the lot overboard; the climate has affected them, so that they are all fogged and have also lost their speed.

April 26, 1914.
Tenggarung and Sungai Djambajan.

Learning from Mr. Robinson that the Controleur's wife, Mrs. Meyer, was the owner of a tame tiger-cat (Felis nebulosa) and many other animals, so I went to call on her this morning about 7:00 A.M. She showed me several birds, parrots, ducks, pheasants, etc. but I was most pleased to see the beautiful tiger-cat, a large specimen and as tame and gentle as any house cat, but it is very lively and very strong.

Mrs. Meyer also showed me skulls of various mammals, including one of "babi-rusa", the pig-deer of the Celebes and made me a present of two snakes and an imperfect skull of rhinoceros.

With Mr. Robinson's twenty-five foot steam launch lashed to the side of our prahn, we first went up stream to the kampong and bought some rice, dried fish, turtle eggs, etc. and then went down the Mahakkam and up the Djambajan. As we left the Tenggarung it began to rain

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