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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