EXPLORING EXPEDITION 
FROM 
SELAMA, PERAK, 
OVER THE MOUNTAINS 
TO 
PONG, PATANI, 
IN NOVEMBER, 1883. 
a yIR HuGH Low, K.c.M.G., the Resident of Pérak, having 
Q\y\_srequested me (then Magistrate and Collector in charge 
St of Selama) to try and discover if a route could be 
found from Sélama to Pong, Patani, with a view of 
making a road, if feasible, to tap this disputed territory 
should the pending negotiations with Siam lead to its resto- 
ration to Pérak, I got together about thirty Patani Malays, 
settlers in Hulu Selama, under their Pénghtlu MAHOMED 
DAHARI,* and some semi-civilised Semangs (a wild tribe of 
the Peninsula), and started on a journey through the jungle, 
pathless but for wild elephant and rhinoceros tracks, and 
quite unknown to all but BUNGA, the Semang, who had but a 
vague recollection of coming through from Pong thirteen 
years before! The following—my official journal of the ex- 
pedition—may not perhaps be without interest. 
ENR BLURS, ity IDO 
* The man of that name mentioned in Mr. MAXWELL’S Journal in 
1876. See Journal, Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society, No. 9, p. 11. 
