ITINERARY OF A TRIP TO GUNONG BINTANG AND THE 
BHO KE DAT BOUNDARY, BY THE CHIEF SURVEYOR 
OF PERAK, DURING THE MONTHS. OF OCTOBER AND 
NOVEMBER, 1892. 
October 20th. Left Taiping by 2.16 p.m. train for Ulu Sapetang 
and Selama, but could not proceed beyond Briah Rest-house, owing to 
the bad state of the road, so slept there. 
gists lkeit, Briah at: 7.2m, and arrived at Selama, at ro.40 aim: 
Baggage arrived in the course of the afternoon. Spent the day in 
collecting coolies and despatching part of baggage to Ulu Selama Rest- 
house. 
22nd. At 6.30 a.m. despatched balance of baggage to Ulu Selama 
and prepared to follow, but it came on to rain heavily, so I did not leave 
Selama till the afternoon, and reached Ulu Selama after dark, only 
to find that all my clothes, instruments and baggage were soaked through 
with the rain, and that two of the Malay coolies had disappeared, taking 
with them some of my tinned provisions. 
The Selama coolies refused to go on to Bintang, so I had to take 
measures to collect others at Kampong Ulu Selama. On application to 
Mat Dari, the late Penghulu, he promised to give me 40 in the morning, 
at 40 cents per diem each. 
23rd. A fine morning, which IJ occupied till 9 a.m. in drying clothes and 
making up packs for coolies. At last, at about 9.30 a.m., left with 20 coolies 
and three elephants to dive into the jungle, Ulu Selama being the last 
settlement on the way. Our track was up the Selama river for about an 
hour and a half; we then turned to the northward and started up a ridge 
which divides the Selama and Krian rivers, up which we journeyed to a 
height of about 1,860 feet and descended 430 feet; finally at 5.20 p.m. 
made a camp (1, 633 feet above sea level) at Sungei Ketam, a tributary 
of the Krian. By this time it was raining heavily, and everything was 
again wet before a tent could be rigged up, and it was past g p.m. when 
we were successful in getting a fire to burn and food cooked. It was 
pitch dark, and impossible to find anything to make a shelter, and those 
coolies who could not squeeze in under the tent, where we were lying two 
deep, were out in the wet all night; fortunately it was not very “colds 
but the leeches were in my riads all over the place, and it was simply 
impossible to evade their insidious attacks. 
24th. The camp was astir at 7 a.m., and I finally got away at 8 a.m. 
with a couple of coolies, still continuing in a north-by-east direction 
across a ridge, attaining an elevation of 2.570 feet, and afterwards 
descended again and reached the Sungei bintang at 10.30 a.m. and 
proceeded to build a camp at a point about 1 690 “feet elevation. The 
balance of the coolies and the elephants began to arrive between 2 and 
3 p.m., at which time it had commenced raining, and continued till g p.m. 
