SELAMA TO PONG, PATANI. 113 
same ground was not to be thought of as we had had quite 
enough of it. 
There was formerly a path from Pong to Siah, Kedah, one 
day’s march, but it has been long disused, and we could get 
no one who could show us the w ay with-certainty. We 
should have gone from here to Siah about N.W., thence to 
Kupang, Bakar, Sedin and Mahang, and not going to Baling 
at all, thus saving a day. 
he only w ell known route is v7@ Klian Intan, Baling, 
Kupang, Bakar, Sedin and Mahang; this I resolved to take. 
Started at 9.30 A.M. with Siamese cuide. Crossed the Sungei 
Pong twice. Steered about North keeping alongside of 
Sungei Rui, following it down; crossed it twice. ‘the first 
time it being rather deep, the Pénghilu, another man and 
myself tried going over on a r@kit (raft) that was moored to 
a tree, but when in mid-stream it capsized, and we all had a 
refreshing trip to the bottom. At about 10.30 A.M. four men 
came up with us having been despatched from Hulu Selama 
with a letter from Mr. BREWSTER asking me to try and be down 
at Parit Buntar, Krian, on the 22nd. They had followed our 
track the whole w ay, and had done the journey in four nights ; 
very fair work. We steered between N. and E., our path 
chiefly along streams and ridges; only two or three bits of 
hill; these streams are simply a mass of tin, and all the stone 
is a fine, black, slaty-looking substance that I should think 
was full of it. The path was a pleasant contrast to what we 
have been accustomed to for the last week, and we went along 
at a great pace. At 2.20P.M.struckthe main Pérak-Kedah- 
Patani buffalo track : followed it along and at 2.50 P.M. 
arrived at Klian Kalik.* Rested here awhile, while a heavy 
storm of rain came on. This is a fogs? of about thirty or 
forty Hokkien Chinese, who have only been here a short time. 
They were very civil, There are a great number of old 
abandoned tin w orkings here, chiefly the work of Mal ays, and 
the jungle is full of “magnificent great durian trees ; there 
must have been a large settlement here once. At 4 P.M. the 
*Klian Kalik and Klian Jntan were visited by Mr. MAXWELL in 1876. 
See Journal, Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 9, p. 55. 
