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all mud, tracked up in all directions.

     The mountains in the background are about three thousand feet in height and apparently covered with dense forest which looks rather low compared with the forests of Borneo.
     Many of the native here are making small coconut plantations. Wherever it is fit to plant coconuts near the shore, these palms may be seen in numbers; possibly there are too many of them for the natives have a tendency to plant the trees too close to each other for by so doing they have less ground to clear and fence and never consider that by so doing, the trees will bear poorly or not at all. 
     All of the paddy fields I came across have been fenced with either bamboo or wood.  Fences made of bamboo are the most simple and probably quicker to construct, as bamboo is usually plentiful, being much more common than where I have been in Borneo.
     In Borneo I had never seen a fence constructed by the natives that would keep out the pigs but here where the pigs are so much smaller the bamboo and wooden fences, if well constructed, serve well for a few months or until the rattan with which it is tied together become rotten or weak. 
     For rice fields they do very well as they last at least long enough to protect the crop from the time it is planted until it is reaped. 
     I came upon several places where the natives had been making "sago" which to many of them takes the place of rice. 
     Though the government does not allow the natives to keep fire arms, they nevertheless have many, some of which are most peculiar