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and nearly all look decidedly unsafe to handle as they are old, mostly muzzle loaders and very loose. I came upon a party of them hunting in a field.  One of their number carried a small reflector lamp and behind him came seven or eight, each carrying a gun, and one or two, in addition to their guns and parangs carried spears. They told me when they met a deer, they all fired to be sure of getting it. So I can imagine in this locality deer are not as common as they, of the shore, at first led me to believe. 
     When I returned to the shore after hunting for several hours I discovered that our sampan had not been securely made fast and had drifted away, so finally after much hunting about in the darkness, we found a tiny sampan with outriggers and carried it down to the water's edge, and waiting our opportunity, safely launched it and paddled off to the larger boat, using coconut leaves for paddles. 

July 16, 1914
  Sirondja to Dampelas.

     We got up anchor about nine o'clock this morning but there was only a very light breeze which hardly more than moved us along. Later the wind came from the south or a little west of south and we made good time and rounded Tandjong Manimbaja and then headed for Tandjong Dampelas, fifteen miles further on, then the wind died out and the boat rocked and rolled until finally after an hour or so came a stiff wind from the land and we were just able to lay a course and reached Tandjong Dampelas about dusk, but under the lee of the point which is high and comes down steep right to the shore, there was nothing but little gusts of wind, so we kept a little farther from the shore and sailed on into the cove. The water is very deep and a school of porpoises played about the boat and