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These are usually built in the same manner on piles of wood of ten to fifteen feet high, the walls and roof being made of "atap," or the leaf of the nipa-palm dried, and the flooring of "lanties" or split bamboo.
Moreover, the smell from the remnants of the crew's meals, such as stale fish and decayed fruit and vegetables which they will not take the trouble to throw overboard, but invariably drop under the "lanties" or bamboo deck is well-nigh insupportable. We left Kuching on the 4th of June for Matang, intending to make the ascent of Sorapi, the highest peak of the Matang range.
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