THE JOHORE SURVEY. 171 



Slessor, M.Inst. C.E., late Chief Engineer of the Cape 

 Government Railways, two District Engineers, Messrs. Page 

 and Phillimore, 1st class assistants Messrs. Woodburn and 

 Metcalfe, 2nd class assistants Messrs. Scoones and Ormerod. 

 Mr. Feilding acted as secretary to the expedition, which was 

 joined later by Mr. Harry Lake, who undertook the ex- 

 ploring and mining. Upon arrival at Johore, where the 

 staff was most luxuriously housed at the Istana Tambutan, 

 a survey was made of the town, the terminal station at 

 Johore fixed upon, the site for the Johore- Singapore Bridge 

 determined, and the survey begun towards Segaraat. 



While the chief engineer was engaged in conferences 

 with the Grovernment officials and in ai'ranging the plan and 

 details of the expedition, the district engineers were deter- 

 mining sites for structures and directions for lines, the 

 assistants being engaged in surveying and levelling and, on 

 arriving at headquarters after the day's work was over, in 

 plotting. 



When the survey work had been completed about Johore 

 and to a distance in the direction of Segamat that could be 

 conveniently worked, the next stage of the Survey was 

 entered on. 



Included in the preparations at Johore was the provision 

 of a number of jungle-cutters, without whom a survey in the 

 Malay Peninsula would be an impossibility. 



The staif was then divided into two divisions, a northern 

 and a southern, Mr. Phillimore with Messrs. Woodburn and 

 Ormerod being appointed to the northern or Segamat divi- 

 sion, Mr. Page with Messrs. Metcalfe and Scoones to the 

 southern division. 



The northern division was to run the traverse south- 

 ward, towards Johore Bahru ; while the southern division 

 ran their traverse to meet the other. The two portions of 



