Though they knew something of him in this way, similar stories reached them from other sources; slowly the news spread through the villages bordering on the Trusan, and were carried up against the stream to meet the same tales brought over by the Kayan envoys, who declared that Tuan Brooke was their great ally, and therefore the Adangs were anxious to secure his influence to put down the Kayan forays. The highest peak beyond the houses above 5,500 feet is called Lobang Rimau, “The Tigers’ Cave,” about which they tell this story: that formerly a tiger killed a woman; the people turned out, and gave chase; the tigers, eight in number, took refuge in a cave near the peak; the hunters lit a great fire at the entrance, and smoked them to death. Since then there have been no tigers, but the place has been called “Tigers’ Cave” to this day; and it is worth noticing that the Muruts of Padas have a great dread of ascending to the summit of some of their highest mountains, on account of the tigers which still, they say, lurk in the deepest recesses of the forest. CHAPTER V. MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_continued_. Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.