258 Johdle and its former Dependencies of [May, 



jectures, to be about 90 miles distant from Malacca. Pahang is esti- 

 mated at 300 miles distance from Jompdle. From Jomp6le to Pahang 

 tbe journey is by boat down the river Seruting to the large lake of 

 Braugh, called Tassek Braugh ; which is said by Mr. Gray to be 

 nearly fifty miles in circumference, and is formed by the flow of water 

 from the neighbouring mountains. 



If this account be correct, the lake Braugh exceeds in dimensions 

 the recently discovered inland lakes in Sumatra. 



The natives, however, have described this lake to me to be of much 

 less extent ; narrow but long. Its communication with tbe Pahang 

 river, which empties into the China sea, is by a river called the 

 Braugh. 



Regarding the navigation of these rivers, Mr. Gray observes : " In 

 some parts of the Seruting and Braugh, a brig might go up, and in 

 other parts, nothing but a small boat ; on account of the water being 

 above the fallen trees, so that the boat must be lifted before it can 

 proceed, on account of the overflowing banks of the river." 



The Pahang river, from the place where it receives the waters of 

 the Braugh, down to the town of Pahang, is wide and deep. These 

 streams are deepest in the months of November, December, and Janu- 

 ary. From the month of March to that of August, Mr. Gray was 

 informed, that it is impossible to proceed from the Seruting river to 

 Pahang, on account of the paucity of water. The general depth of 

 these rivers, in January, he ascertained to be between 40 and 60 feet ; 

 but on his return in February, he found their depth diminished by one- 

 half. 



There are a few villages on the banks of these rivers, but for the 

 most part they are covered with lofty forests, tenanted by the rhino- 

 cerous, tapir, tiger, elephant, and scarcely more civilized Jacoon. 



Mr. Gray met with great kindness and hospitality from the inha- 

 bitants of the different estates through which he passed. He fell, 

 however, a sacrifice to his exertions, dying of jungle fever, contracted 

 during the journey, twenty-five days after his return to Malacca. 



Boundaries. — Joh6le is bounded on the north by Ulti Pahang and part 

 of Rumbdwe : to the south by part of Naning and Mdar or Segdmet : to 

 the east by Segdmet, and to the west by Srimendnti and part of Rumbdwe. 

 The boundaries with Malacca are from Bukit Puttus to Battang Malacca, 

 and from Battang Malacca by Bdnkdng* Chdnddng to Mount Ophir. 



* Bantcong Chunddng is a large tree, growing in the forest that separates Assahan 

 from Mount Ophir. The tree was still in existence when I visited Mount Ophir 

 in 1833. 



