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Morning partly cloudy; rain during the middle of the afternoon.

April 30, 1914.
Sungai Djambajan, "Lembus".

The boys awakened me before daylight and after hurriedly making tea and eating a few biscuits, get in the canoe with Ibut and go up stream and then ashore and follow up the trap line to find we had caught only one rat and one small squirrel. From the end of the line of traps I branched off and followed up some Wah-wahs which I heard in the distance; there were three of them, but after getting two of them with four shots, the third had escaped. I went back to the traps and as I only had two more shells and these loaded with number four shot, I sent Ibut with the specimens and told him to bring me more shells. After he had gone I stood still for a few minutes and then began walking quietly along towards the end of the line of traps. About fifteen yards to the right of me I noticed a vine shake slightly, so I hesitated and watched, expecting to see a squirrel or Tupaia, but instead I saw a full grown bear. The underbrush was pretty dense so I could not see the bear all the time; however, a moment later it came into view about ten yards away, swinging its head from side to side and sniffing; I fired for its shoulder but it did not drop but began thrashing about and growling, or rather howling in a terrible manner; at this point I discovered that there were two bears, but I stood still, hoping the one I had shot would drop dead but it only continued growling, so I stood still. They were both sniffing about in the underbrush but finally I found one of them coming my way so I fired, and as it kept coming I started up the trail at full speed and slipped and fell flat before I had gone five yards, but practically no time 

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