Chapter XIX

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From this reading _9th._--This morning Musa was very feverish, so the men asked me to stop a day to collect provisions.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

forsake, leave behind

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

a record or narrative description of past events

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

tending to become more severe or wider in scope

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

later than; following

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

anew

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

accomplishment of an objective

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody

From this reading _9th._--This morning Musa was very feverish, so the men asked me to stop a day to collect provisions.

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From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

having undesirable or negative qualities

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

cases used to carry belongings when traveling

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

have

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “bear” — massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “bee” — any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

at or toward the back of something

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “boat” — a small vessel for travel on water

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a native or inhabitant of Borneo

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the people of Great Britain

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a sultanate in northwestern Borneo; became independent of Great Britain in 1984

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “cause” — events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

get or gather together

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

having come or been brought to a conclusion

From this reading MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_Concluded_.

direct the course of; manage or control

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

an admission of misdeeds or faults

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

make by combining materials and parts

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

diplomatic building that serves as the residence or workplace of a consul

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

past form of “consume” — eat up completely, as with great appetite

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

without stop or interruption

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

make right or correct

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “design” — the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives

From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

the property created by the space between two objects or points

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

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From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

plural of “estimate” — an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

-ing form of “extort” — obtain through intimidation

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

marked by intense agitation or emotion

From this reading _9th._--This morning Musa was very feverish, so the men asked me to stop a day to collect provisions.

come upon, as if by accident; meet with

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a group of followers or enthusiasts

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

set up or found

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

of or relating to the science of geography

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “graveyard” — a tract of land used for burials

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “head” — the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “hut” — temporary military shelter

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a single distinct event

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

not producing desired results; wasteful

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a message received and understood

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “instance” — an occurrence of something

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

become part of; become a member of a group or organization

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “join” — the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

From this reading MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_Concluded_.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

immediately past

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

go away from a place

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

plural of “leech” — carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

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From this reading MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_Concluded_.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

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From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

make a map of; show or establish the features of details of

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading _9th._--This morning Musa was very feverish, so the men asked me to stop a day to collect provisions.

any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a formally arranged gathering

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the force of workers available

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “mistake” — a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

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From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

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From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the time period between dawn and noon

From this reading _9th._--This morning Musa was very feverish, so the men asked me to stop a day to collect provisions.

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From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

a form of address for a man

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

kill intentionally and with premeditation

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

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From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

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From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

type genus of the Musaceae: bananas

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

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From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_Concluded_.

characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

absolutely essential

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

information about recent and important events

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

not any; not one

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

not one, and not any

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “officer” — any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “orange” — round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

an organization to gain political power

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

abounding in small stones

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the particular portion of space occupied by something

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

capable of happening or existing

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “prisoner” — a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

gradual improvement or growth or development

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

past form of “propose” — make a proposal, declare a plan for something

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a stock or supply of foods

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the act of punishing

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

move with force

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

with low volume

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

a large number or amount

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “ravage” — (usually plural) a destructive action

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

reach a destination, either real or abstract

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

(usually preceded by “in”) a detail or point

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

past form of “release” — release, as from one's grip

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

any object that is left unused or still extant

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “remark” — a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

not move; be in a resting position

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

past form of “restore” — return to its original or usable and functioning condition

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

larceny by threat of violence

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

inflected form of “see” — perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a particular situation

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading _9th._--This morning Musa was very feverish, so the men asked me to stop a day to collect provisions.

plural of “society” — an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

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From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

go sour or spoil

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

come to a halt, stop moving

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

(of a nose) blocked

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

possessive form of “sultan” — the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “tent” — a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

tested and proved useful or correct

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading _9th._--This morning Musa was very feverish, so the men asked me to stop a day to collect provisions.

plural of “threat” — something that is a source of danger

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

plural of “trace” — a just detectable amount

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the act of going from one place to another

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

dangerously unstable and unpredictable

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

devoid of feeling for others

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

in an unwilling manner

From this reading To this I unwillingly assented, but they did little else than lie down.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

(usually used in combination) having value of a specified kind

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

precisely as stated

From this reading _9th._--This morning Musa was very feverish, so the men asked me to stop a day to collect provisions.

plural of “walk” — the act of traveling by foot

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

feel or have a desire for; want strongly

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading _9th._--This morning Musa was very feverish, so the men asked me to stop a day to collect provisions.

a flaw or weak point

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

during the time that

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

marked by extreme lack of restraint or control

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

in the company of; together with

From this reading About nine a.m. five of the men proposed that I should allow them to leave their muskets and all their baggage, and push on as fast as possible to the boats, while I moved on quietly with the sick and sore-footed.

an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.

a late time of life

From this reading Stopped for a Day--Five start for Provisions--The Sick Men left behind join us--No Shoes--Weakness from want of Food--Leeches--Stop again--Collect Food--Anecdote of Female Orang Utan and Murut--Again construct Rafts--Present of a Cup full of Rice--Start on the Rafts--Abandon them--A Bear--The River--Immense Pebbly Flats--Long Walks--Traces of the Advance Party--Wild Fruit--Sour Oranges--Recognize a Hill--Fruit of the Jintawan, or Indian-rubber Plant--Find Remains of Bees’-nest--The British Flag--Reach the Madihit--Bad Conduct of the Advance Party--Food nearly all consumed--An unfeeling Father--Proposed Punishment--Ravages of the Bears--Anecdote of Ahtan--Return in the Boats--The Herd of Wild Cattle--Wound a Bull, but do not get it--A slight Supper--Start in a Sampir--Ahtan ill--The last of the Food--News from Brunei--Reach the Town--Arrival of the rest of the Party--Bornean Travelling--Measure Distance by Fatigue--Slow Progress necessary--Active Murut--Average Rate of Advance--Great Mistakes made in the Estimates of Distance--Instances--Mr. Motley’s Account of his Advance up the Limbang--Mr. De Crespigny’s Mistake in the Latitude of the River Damit and Position of the Mountain of Molu--Remarks on the Map--Causes of the continued Health of my Followers--The Tents--Mistake in trusting to Native Huts--Native Geographical Information tested--Found correct--Arrival of the Orang Kaya Upit--Tragical Death of Pangeran Mokata, the Shabandar--Two Years after--Sad Fate of a Party of Adang Muruts--Murder by Orang Kaya Gomba--Head-hunting--Heads valued, but none seen--Incident of meeting Head-hunters--No Treacherous Designs--Inefficient Government--Desecration of the Graveyards--Chinese Secret Societies, or Hués--Ahtan joins one--Robbery of the Iron Chest from the Consulate--The Sultan’s Method of extorting a Confession--Obstinacy of Ahtan--Officers of the Secret Society--Chest restored--Prisoners released--The Hué broken up--Treatment of Prisoners--Musa and the Priest--Threats--Personal Regard for some of my Followers.