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by the Sakais (theaborigines of this region) and sold to the Malays. I met with the tree 
in fruit in the Tahan woods. 
Gutta-trees are plentiful in the Tahan distriets, and Pahang gutta-percha has a very 
high value in the market. Tt is produced by Dichopsis Gutta, Benth. & Hook. f., Dyera 
costulata, Hook. f., producing the ** Getah J elutong ” of the Malays; a gutta chiefly used 
for adulteration was also abundant, and there were many big lianes of “ Getah Grip” 
(Willughbeia edulis and JF. Burbidgei). 
Bamboos are abundant on the edges of the river in many places, and were convenient 
for making rafts, on which jungle-produce is floated down to Pekan, where also they find 
a ready sale, as bamboos are scarce in the low country. | 
Cultivation. 
The amount of cultivation in Pahang is very small. The natives are indolent and prefer 
а hand-to-mouth existence, although the soil in many parts of the country is exceptionally 
good and very superior to that of the south of the Peninsula. In the villages along the 
main river, Maize, Tapioca, Sago, Hill Paddy, and fruit are chiefly cultivated; I have also 
seen Italian Millet (Setaria italica) at Pulau Tawar. 
The Penghulu Rajah of Tembeling (chief of that district) had some very healthy 
young Arabian coffee-trees in his garden quite free from Hemileia vastatria ; but he was 
entirely ignorant of the use of the coffee-berries, using the leaves only to make a kind 
of tea. Mr. Hugh Clifford, Acting Resident of Pahang, informs me that there are 
plantations of gambir further up the Tembeling River than I have been, which have 
been in cultivation for some generations; but gambir for chewing only is made and is 
not exported. : 
А small quantity of сорга is now being made in Pekan by the Chinese, and coconut- 
sugar is also: made there. 
Of fruits the usual Malay kinds are commonly cultivated, and the trees often persist 
long after the villages have been deserted and swallowed up in jungle. Durian (Durio 
zibethinus, Linn.), Mangosteen (Garcinia Mangostana, Linn. Asam Gelugur (С. atro- 
viridis, King), Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum, Blume), Pulasan (N. mutabile, Blume), 
Langsat (Lansiwm domesticum, Jack), Bananas, Rouminia (Bouea microphylla, Griff. ), 
Kadondong (В. macrophylla, Griff.), and Carambola (Averrhoa Carambola, Linn.) are 
all plentiful. 
Many of these fruit-trees are to be found a long way in the jungles, far from culti- 
vation, but I am inclined to think that they are not natives here. In some cases they 
may be the relics of villages which have disappeared, but many are evidently derived 
from seed scattered by the wandering Sakais or by monkeys. Round the encampments 
ofthe aborigines known as Sakais, one could often find the remains of Durians and 
Rambutans, the seeds of which were germinating. These savages, like monkeys, swallow 
the fruit without ejecting the seed, and pass the seed unharmed at some distance from 
the place whence they took the fruit, and thus scatter the seed all over the forests. Two 
other plants, apparently not indigenous, had beer carried up the Tahan River for a con- 
siderable distance and appeared at spots on the river-bank where there were signs of 
