Description
Kampong Ratau: Kampong Ratau lies about eight miles from Bundu Tuhan on the way down to
Tamparuli, but the way is not today's main road to Ranau. To reach it in 1955, as I did, one went by bridle path from Kota Belud to Bundu Tuhan, and then followed a track in the direction of Tamparuli. My purpose was to visit a primary school, and I occupied a (very hard) bed for the night kindly vacated by the school master. The villagers showed me the process of preparing the tobacco which was grown in this area. They back-packed it down to the Tamparuli tamu and came back with their purchases. That evening a girl arrived panting and sat down with a huge sigh of relief as she lowered her wakid to the ground. Some time during the afternoon I made a pencil drawing of the kampong viewed from the teacher's verandah. Only recently, thinking that the houses with their thatch (atap) roofs are a piece of history, I made this oil painting based on my sketch. ISBN:9789679994766 
