Abstract
AbstractAbstractA Survey gang recently built a hardwood beacon on Bukit Toodan, 1,600 feet, overlooking the sleepy hollow of Kota Belud, and an observer on returning to the station a week later found that one of the four legs of the beacon had been torn to shreds by lightning and hurled many feet away, while the concrete slab marking the exact point was discovered to have been shattered to fragments. A week or two later an observer reported the Pulau Gaya hardwood trig. beacon to be lying at an angle from the perpendicular, and on observation with a powerful telescope it was disclosed that the whole beacon was covered with flying foxes roosting upside down, whose talons had in the course of time severed one of the beacon legs–rather a shock to any ordinary observer. But that is the kind of thing that surveyors in the East have to contend with quite frequently.
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