Smoky 75-seat ekspress boats from Kuching spume up the Rajang (in 13 hours, spread over several legs and days), juddering past sawmills, plywood factories, rusty shipyards and .
In this "joint debate" system the old-style ranters of the Dial-Blease ilk rave, rage, fume, spume, howl over imaginary issues.
Nine-foot combers bore down upon seawalls, crested and broke, hurling tons of spume 20 feet or higher into the air.
Eric Newby in Times LIVE Newby writes, "The seas approached very deliberately, black and shiny as jet, with smoking white crests, gleaming in the sunshine, hissing as they came, hurling a fine spume into the air as high as the main yard."