АМ UNEKPLORED CORNER ОЕ PAHANG. 4 
nearly flat country between Sungei Besi and Sungei Seran, as 
this mountain stands up as it were alone. Having seen all I 
wished to see in that locality, I came back to my camp at Kuala 
Wur, and had my boats and baggage taken below the Jeram, 
and there stayed the night. There was a rise of several feet in 
the river that night, and next day we came down to Kuala 
Besi at racing speed, doing in six hours, what it had taken us 
three days to go up. 
old man, his wife is an old woman, and the two children who as 
infants took an unconscious part in the tragedy I speak of, are 
ow a fine young man and woman, the son recently married 
and the daughter about to be, but both Johor and his wife still 
carry on their bodies the marks of the aífray of which I speak. 
It took place some 20 odd years ago, and Johor, his wife and 
two young children were at that time living at Kuala Seran, 
i. e., where the Telom and Seran, as | before explained, divide, 
and go in separate directions. 
the three or four ladder-like steps into the house and made a 
vicious stab at Johor with his spear, which he in the act of rising 
managed to ward off. Failing in this the stranger reversed the 
spear, and dealt him a smashing blow across the bead, with the 
heavy petaling wood handle. Half blinded by tbe blood which 
poured down over his face Johor seized the spear, and a 
desperate struggle ensued. Finding he could not wrench it 
away, the stranger drew his kris and tried to stab him, but he 
warded off the stabs as best he could with his arms, at the same 
time with his feet pusbing the children away out of danger. 
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