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When we left Donggala there was a strong southwest breeze and we were soon out of the bay but later the wind died somewhat and we hardly more than drifted along. About dusk we were becalmed but after dark came a light breeze from the mountains. I slept intermittantly until we reached Sirendja about three o'clock in the morning and anchored about three hundred yards off shore.

July 15, 1914.
Sirendja.

Sirendja is a small kampong twenty nine miles north of Donggala. There has recently been constructed a road so that at the present time it is possible to go by horse from Donggala to Sirendja and I am told,even farther north (possibly to Dampelas). The road with few exceptions is made close along the shore. The building of the roads throughout all the parts of Borneo and Celebes which I have visited is done by the natives, forced by the government. Each able bodied native man is required to work on the roads from four to ten days a month; the time being lessened when roads are completed, only sufficient being demanded to keep the roads in repair.

Near the shore at Sirendja the land is low, a mixture of said and black detritus. There is some small jungle which appears to be all second growth. Some swamps ,in which grow many sago-palms, and slightly inland from the swamps are fields of dry paddy and large fields of "Lalang" or long coarse grass. I was told by the natives that deer were plentiful so at night I hunted inland through the fields of rice and grass until nearly three o'clock in the morning but did not get a shot at a deer. Pigs are evidently plentiful for I saw many tracks and wounded one small black one which left a trail of blood but had strength enough to go some distance. I followed until it went into a mass of rattans which was

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