Every man present made some excuse, but others were sent for, and by dint of threats and promises, and the exertion of all Bujon's eloquence, we succeeded in getting off after two hours' delay.
For the first few miles our path lay over a country cleared for rice-fields, consisting entirely of small but deep and sharply-cut ridges and valleys without a yard of level ground.

After crossing the Kayan river, a main branch of the Sadong, we got on to the lower slopes of the Seboran Mountain, and the path lay along a sharp and moderately steep ridge, affording an excellent view of the country.

Its features were exactly those of the Himalayas in miniature, as they are described by Dr.Hooker and other travellers, and looked like a natural model of some parts of those vast mountains on a scale of about a tenth--thousands of feet being here represented by hundreds.

I now discovered the source of the beautiful pebbles which had so pleased me in the riverbed.

The slatey rocks had ceased, and these mountains seemed to consist of a sandstone conglomerate, which was in some places a mere mass of pebbles cemented together.