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Selamat Datang - Welcome! Our riverboat approaches the landing at Kampong Bukit Linei on the Tutoh River. A couple waits to board for a trip down river either to Marudi or to Kuala Baram and Miri while other villagers look on. Still curious as to why the "Slow Down" sign is in English. All the boat drivers I encountered were locals. The shack is a fuel depot for the longboats of the community.

Daily Photo – Selamat Datang

Richard Davis February 23, 2013
Travel 1

The shack on the landing is a fuel depot for the longboats of the community. What I still fund curious is that ‘Slow Down’ is written in English. I only ever saw locals driving boats on the rivers. Maybe they determined ‘Melambatkan’ wouldn’t fit in large enough letters to be visible until it was too late. Or maybe they determined it was only English reading explorers that were speeding on the rivers.

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A longboat motors up a river in the Gunung Mulu National Park. 1989.

Daily Photo – New Arrivals

Richard Davis February 10, 2013
Travel 5

From high on a hillside we had a great view down onto the river and the new arrivals coming upstream. This photo was taken in the Gunung Mulu National Park in 1989.

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