The men have been working away, forming a cache for the things that we must leave behind: it is raised on four poles, so as to be quite secure from pigs. To show how extensively the Chinese formerly spread over the country, I may notice that they had pepper plantations even up the Madihit as late as the remembrance of some of the oldest Muruts. CHAPTER IV. MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_continued_. Start on the Land Journey--Our Course--Ascend the Rawan Torrent--Attacked by Hornets--Native Remedy--Severe Effect of Sting--Disturbed by Ants--Japer left behind--Fresh Traces of Strangers in the Forest--Appearance of the Country--Water Snake killed--Our Adventure with One--The Swimming Cobra--Romantic but timely Meeting--Story of Pangeran Mumein and the Murut Concubine--Malay Revenge--Punishment of an Offender--Cause of the Borneans being converted to Mahomedanism--Capturing the Daughter of Johore--Independent Position of the Pablat Borneans--Reach the Wax-seekers’ Hut--Flesh of the Wild Boar--The Adang Muruts--Their Sumpitans--The Poison on the Arrows--Melted in hot Water--Weapons purchased, not made by them--Dress of the Muruts--Japer rejoins us--Continue our Journey with new Guide--Method of catching Fish--Effect of Loss of Blood by Leeches--Extraordinary Insect--The Freshwater Turtle--Its Description--Curious Fly--Poisoning the River--Getting short of Provisions--Galton’s Method of dividing Food--Adopt it--Improvidence of the Malays--Cry of the Wahwah--Rejoin the Limbang--Omen Bird--Prepare for Enemies--Quarrel among the Guides--Divide the Party--Hard Walking--The Otter--A Fight with my Dogs--Still beyond the Mountain--Find good Huts--The Stragglers--The last of the Food--Ascend the Mountains--Exhaustion of the Guides--The Remains of the Ham--Its Effects--Reach the Summit--Descend to the Farms--Meet the Adang Muruts--Hearty Welcome--Names--Recent History of these Villagers--Kayan Attacks--Driven from the Limbang--The Geography of the Country--The Houses--Cold, and Fire-places--Arrival of my Followers--Sir James Brooke--The Friend of the Aborigines--His Fame had preceded me--How Reports spread--The Tigers’ Cave--Curious Story. _10th._--I was so stung by hornets yesterday that I was unable to write in my journal, and even now it is a work of difficulty. After some trouble, I got the sampirs hauled up on the bank, to be beyond the reach of freshes; and all the things we intended to leave behind were carefully stowed away. The sago we left in the boats, none of the men choosing to burden themselves with any of it, though I warned them not to take less than seven days’ provisions, but all warnings were useless.