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May 5, 1914.
Sungai Djambajan, "Lembus."

From before sunrise until the sun was high I hunted up stream on both sides of the stream but there seemed to be nothing about.

Showers during the afternoon.

In the traps, three rats, one of them destroyed by ants. 

Several canoes, Malay Rattan and Gutta hunters, passed down stream during the day, their canoes piled with bundles of rattans.

May 6, 1914.
Sungai Djambajan, "Lembus."

From the two hundred traps, one small rat (Epimys whiteheadi). 

In the center of a large swamp to the west of the river is a small spring where many birds  come to bathe every afternoon; at this spring I waited from the middle of the afternoon until dusk and had with me both my gun and blow-pipe but my darts are not poisoned and are therefore not very effective. With the gun two small squirrels (Sciurus parvus) were collected. This species is very seldom seen more than six or eight feet above the ground; they seem to prefer open jungle near the borders of swamps or near the river banks and one usually sees them running along logs and roots or scurrying from one log to another.

This morning I followed a specimen of Sciurus borneensis for about five hundred yards but could not get a shot at it and finally lost track of it.

May 7, 1914.
Sungai Djambajan, "Lembus."

From the traps,one rat, skin spoiled by ants.

Get another black monkey "Lutong" and its uterus contained a nearly mature embryo. With this species I have as yet seen but

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