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Pitts overhauled the ice-chest, and found them in excellent condition; and Achang was appointed to be the bearer of them, with the compliments of the Americans, to the gentlemen who were to receive them. Two native porters were to carry them; and the party knew that the fish were a rarity in the town, and they were in season for the dinner of that day.
A table had been set up in the fore cabin; and at half-past seven, or seven bells, which is the usual hour for breakfast at sea, the meal was served to the watch below. "Land on the port bow, sir!" reported Clingman, who was the lookout man, just before eight bells. "That is Subi," said Achang, looking at the paper Morris had given him when the watch was changed. "That's right, Mr.
"I don't want to buy; but I am not so sure that we can get through as shoal a place as that seems to be, for it is only the spreading out of the river. The greater the expanse, the less the depth. How is that, Achang?" "Plenty water; float the boat," answered the Bornean. "Little Padang Lake. Plenty pandanus." "What are pandanuses?" asked Scott.
After the yacht had been moving about an hour, they came to a colony of saurians apparently, for several of them were in sight at once. Achang directed the reptile-hunters to catch one of them, and they paddled their sampan towards a large one.
They stand about three feet high, but are rather lank, like the tall pigs." While the party were examining them, the captain gave the order to back the boat, and then to go ahead. She was moored for the night soon after. The next morning, by the advice of Achang, the Blanchita was headed down the river, for the native declared that they would find no different game on the banks of the Sarawak.
The lines were thrown over, and the fish bit quickly as soon as the steamer was at rest. In half an hour they had taken seven. "Keep her moving, Clingman," said Captain Scott, as the party hurried back to the cabin to continue the discussion. Pitts dressed the fish, and put them in the ice-chest. Achang had completed the skinning of the orang, and the skin was now drying in the sun.
The villagers followed the party, and immediately manifested their politeness in various ways. The prettiest girl in the crowd spoke to Louis; though he did not understand a word she said, but replied to her in English, when she was as much at sea as he had been. "What does she say, Achang?" he asked of the Bornean. "Tabet, tuan," replied the native. "I heard her say that; but what does it mean?"
"Big mias," said Achang. "Do you think you can skin and stuff him, Achang?" asked Louis. "Know I can; have done it with naturalist." "Then you may go to work on it as soon as you please, and I will give you five dollars for the job," added Louis. "Take your time, and do it well." "Where I work? Sampan no good."
It makes a natural plank two inches thick, which may be trimmed into any shape with the biliong." The party were ready to depart; and they made all sorts of courteous gestures to their hosts, especially the ladies. The women asked them for tobacco, as Achang interpreted the requests. They had none, but some of the seamen supplied them with all they had about them.
The rest of the tribe scampered away over the tops of the trees, crying, "honk, honk, kehonk!" "They are proboscis monkeys, and old males at that; for they have very long noses, which is the reason for the name, and why Achang calls them elephant monkeys," said Louis, as he turned the creatures over. "The noses of these two reach down below the chin.
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