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was too much sea outside, and that we must put into 

 a little inlet to the westward of Tangong Lallang, which 

 we accordingly did, much against our will. 



April 24th. Morning cloudy and threatening, but as 

 we had been brought here against our will, so we deter- 

 mined to get out of it at all risks, though the Malays 

 protested that we should be swamped in going over the 

 bar, on which the sea broke heavily. We, however, 

 pushed safely through it, though not without con- 

 siderable difficulty, and having shipped a good deal of 

 water, to the injury of our stock of rice : the smaller 

 boat would not attempt to face the surf, and found a 

 passage where the water was less boisterous, close in 

 shore. By the favour of a fine breeze, we reached the 

 Batang Lupar river the same night, and anchored in 

 the first reach, which is about ten miles long, at a 

 distance of five miles from its mouth. 



April 25th. The morning flood took us up to 

 Lingah, situated five or six miles up a branch of the 

 Batang Lupar, which flows from the westward. I 

 went with Williamson to the court-house, a ruinous 

 building, and the whole of the small Malayan village 

 seemed equally miserable. It is situated at the foot of 

 a table-topped mountain, the sides of which are covered 

 with fruit-trees, the property of the Balow Dyaks, who 

 call their village, which is close to that of the Malays, 

 Banting. This tribe belong to the sea division, and 

 has always maintained an equal contest with the tribes 

 of Sakarran and Sarebas. The Indra Lelah, Lelah 

 Wangsa, and Lelah Palawan, are the Malayan chiefs ; 



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