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June 5 - Forceps lost & found. Horned flies Diopsidae - leech [[insertion]] in bat-net [[/insertion]] stalactites - pitcher plants - spittle insect - frog eggs - Ferries - pontoon - use river current. Lunch at Bangkinang Tiger stories ) Controller, 13 cows killed in 3 wks. Skin of tiger that killed 3 men. Reason, clearing abandoned rubber plantation ~ - rubber is inc, ^ price : Kampong rubber Forest (?) beyond Bangk. miles of neglected rubber estates. [[underlined]] Hot. [[/underlined]] Swamps = rice fields. Entellus monkeys - wild pigs, hornbills, [[drongos?]] - kingfishers - Mandoer always meets us buttoning up coat. Offers rice, C serves ex. dinner. Dinner late to-night. Query at 8 PM. Did we want food? Swallow's nest in dining room.
June 6 - Collected nr, moeara mahat - good forest. Echinopla - Termite nests - Campanatus worker major - now ^ 3 forms. Liana w. purple blooms like wisteria - fruit like pale green grapes. Drove to Batang Mahat II, jungle reserve; trail into woods. Terna. nest w. staph. raided by long legged ant Pheidale (?). Another trail into same jungle. Heat. Lunch by roadside. coconut water - sardines poppy Storm over mts. Made Kota Barde before rain began. No ayerminum, tea. Caught rain water to drink. Good chicken & rice. 3 Dutchmen arrived no room. One of them F. Bante, former dir. of Bat. Zoo. Went onto Bangkin. - rain over twisty roads. Shape of termite nest - 30" long - 4" diameter
June 7 - Still no drink water. Offered some warm, not boiled. Stopped to see view of mts. Found lovely path; collected horn flies, New Polyrachus - Crossed Equator, met Wms crossing in opp. direction - stopped to photo each other; Caught click beetle on monument. Rec. Moeara Mahat to Wms. Did collecting ^ Ayer Putih Canyon,  before we got to Pajacombo - Beirne got Vermilio. Walked down 9 bends in road - I got new Polyrachus & many bright blue Chrysomelids Bill got Stigmatoma (?). tried for Ornithoptera, black w. bright green bands & red heads. 20 km fr. Pajacombo (tiger locality) met Wms told about landslide. Lunch at 4 o'cl at Pajacombo rest house. B. raid cabinet wh. vc 3 tins pea soup. Hotel Centrum ahead of storm. All day cool & breezy. Canyons air conditioned - Washed air - Horn flies sitting on 2 yellow leaves - Catch 1, wait 5 min, catch another. out [[4 shorthand symbols?]] road. Break eye in net. Ayer [[putch?]] - waterfall - high cliffs - dense jungle ferns [[strikethrough]] verbena [[/strikethrough]] baby palms, begonia, ground orchids