JOURNAL 



OF 



THE ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. 53.— May, 1836. 



I. — JoMle and its former Dependencies of Jompdle Gominchi. By Lieut. 

 Newbold, A. D. C. to Brigr. General Wilson, C. B. 



JoMle. Of JoMle, the third of the four Menangkdbowe states, still 

 less is known than of Rumbdive and Sungie Ujong. 



An Englishman of the name of Gray, (whose information is to be 

 taken, however, with caution,) is said to have been the only European 

 who has penetrated into the interior of this state. He passed through 

 part of it in 1827, on his return to Malacca from Pahang, whither he 

 had performed a journey overland, across the peninsula, to barter 

 opium for the gold dust of the latter place. 



His route lay through Naning, part of Rumbowe, Srimendnti, 

 Jampdle, Ulu Seruting, Ulu Braugh, and Ulu Pahang. The journey was 

 performed in 14 days. 



From Tabu, in Naning, to Jompdle, he was four days passing over 

 mount Lanjut, to the villages of Gadang and Tanjong ; over mounts 

 Miko, Pabi, and Punting Pahat, through the villages of Passir, Juno, 

 and Pila, in Srimendnti; and from Pi la to Jompdle, " one day's 

 walk." 



Mr. Gray describes the country he passed through, to have been 

 in a state of high cultivation, particularly at Miko, and in the vales of 

 Punting Pdhat, Juno, and Passir. 



He observes that the paddy at Miko is preferable to that of Malacca, 

 and that it, is supposed by the people that the ground there is better 

 for cultivation, one gantang of seed never producing less than a hun- 

 dred-fold. 



The produce of mount Miko is sapan wood, dammer, and canes of 

 the species termed Pinang-lawyers in abundance. Jomp6le, he con- 

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