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Ah Sing stayed on the prahn drying skins while I hunted through the swamp and on the hill but all I got was one snake about three feet long which I found as I was cutting my way through a swamp.

The two men returned about five o'clock this afternoon and said that further up the stream is impassible on account of fallen trees, so they could not reach the Dyaks.

The weather has been slightly cloudy all day but early this morning there was hard rain; about noon there was some wind.

May 13, 1914.
Sungai Djambajan.

Start down stream wi th the boat early in the morning, the three men rowing and I steering. It was raining when I awoke at daybreak and continued until about sunset this evening; a most miserable day.

Just at dark I saw some pig-tailed macacus monkeys along the bank of the river and went after them in the small boat. I fired two shots and two monkeys dropped with a loud thud as they struck the earth; however, we could only find one of them; there is a perfect mass of underbrush and perhaps we are lucky to have found even one of them in the dark. This species seems to be general in distribution and by the natives is said to be common nearly everywhere, though I have seen very few of them, less than almost any other species of monkey. It has several native names, such as "Brok", "Bangkoi", "Ulu pundon", "Brok koian".

Spend the night tied up to bushes.

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