David LeRoy Topping notebook, 1904-1940
Page 139
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158 Sun, Nov.2t I was up at about 3.30 armed up the boy, had my bath and made a breakfast off of tea, bread and jam. Had to wait for the cycle to bring the horse and for the coolies to pack up and set off at 7.20. Walked for an hour and a half over the foothills and collected two flowers and some fruit of Sandenia Merrillii and a Lygodium, they rode the pony in to Tenghilan which I reached at 12.30 and expected to meet Bracherbury but heard he had changed his mind. Had lunch and waited for coolies until 2.45, then took a boat down through the mangrove swamps, a little rain in the meantime; reached Tajaw at 3.15 and found a pony x coolies waiting for me and I rode into Tumaran in about an hour, crossing one deep river in a boat. I stopped with Mr. Beck D.C.? whom I found most hospitable. Had a drink, and bath and then we had dinner together and a chat. It has been a most frightfully long day and I am about as tired as any day of my trip