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The young men visited the English Mission, where they were kindly received, and went to the school. The American missionaries are also active in Borneo, and one of them has made a vocabulary of the Dyak language. It was decided to start down the river the next morning on the way to the Sadong and Simujan Rivers, the latter being a branch of the former.
"You may find the orang-outang up the Simujan; but I don't know that you want such large game," said he. "We have shot tigers in India, and Mr. McGavonty has shot more cobras than all the rest of us. He has a talent for killing snakes." "Show me the snakes, and I will finish them," added Felix. "You will not find many of them in the jungle.
Figuratively, he took the "Big Four" in his arms, and there was nothing he was not ready to do for them. He conducted them to the government house, and insisted that they should live there during their stay at Simujan. It had been erected to receive such officials as might have occasion to remain there at any time. It was well built and comfortable, and each chamber had a veranda in front of it.
The voyage was resumed on the sea to the mouth of the Sadong; and in three hours more she entered the stream, which was a large one, averaging half a mile wide for twenty miles. "Bujang!" called Achang, as instructed by the captain. "Do you want to go any farther?" The head man replied in his own language that they wished to go to Simujan, or till they came to plenty of game.
She had been seen or heard as she approached; and the whole village was on the shore, including Mr. Eng. "We are not going to lie up to-night," said Captain Scott when asked to land. "We are somewhat in a hurry to get back to Kuching, and we shall run down to Simujan this evening." "I am going in the morning, Captain," added the agent.
"We went up the Sarawak, the Sadong, and the Simujan, up the last to the mountains, passing through Lake Padang, and we have shot an orang-outang, and might have killed more of them, to say nothing of other game," replied Louis, whom Scott had requested to do the talking. "We visited three Dyak villages, sailed the Blanchita through a forest, and killed a good many crocodiles."
"Just what some Englishmen who were here a while ago said, and perhaps you are right; but it is a Malay art, and not English." The party slept very comfortably on bedsteads that night, but they were up before the sun the next morning. The civilized people of Simujan were not stirring when the party came from their chambers.
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