SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES 



on the 25th set off for Manna by a different rotf 

 to that by which we had arrived. Our first day's 

 journey was to Camumuan, which we reached a little 

 before six in the evening, after the hardest day's 

 walk 1 ever experienced. We calculated that we 

 had walked more than thirty miles, and over the 

 worst of roads. Hitherto we had been fortunate in 

 our weather ; but before we reached this place, a 

 heavy rain came on, and soaked us completely. The 

 baggage only came up in part, and we were content 

 to sleep in our wet clothes, under the best shade we 

 could find. No wood would burn ; there was no 

 moon ; it was already dark, and we had no shelter 

 erected : By perseverance, however, I made a toler- 

 able place for Lady Raffles, and, after selecting the 

 smoothest stone I could find in the bed of a river for 

 a pillow, we managed to pass a tolerably comfortable 

 night. This is what is here called the Ula Pino 

 road ; and we were encouraged to undertake long 

 marches, in the hope of only sleeping in the woods 

 one night, and in this we fortunately succeeded. 



" The next day we reached Merambung, where 

 we got upon a raft, and were wafted down to the 

 vicinity of Manna in about seven hours. The pas- 

 sage down the river was extremely romantic and 

 grand ; it is one of the most rapid rivers on the 

 coast : we descended a rapid almost every hundred 

 yards. 



" After proceeding from Manna to Cawoor, we 

 returned by the coast to Bencoolen, where we ar- 



