118 SELAMA TO PONG, PATANI. 
men camped in this hut ; they were searching for gutta. When 
they were out one day a tiger killed one of them, the other 
man went for help, and three others came, and they brought the 
remains back to the hut; they all stopped there that night. 
That night the tiger came again and seized the other gutta 
searcher. The other men wounded it several times with their 
krisses, but did not kill it; it got away after severely wound- 
ing the man. 
Heavy rain came on at 2 P.M. and lasted till 3.30 P.M. 
Crossed a deep stream, the Si Puteh, and arrived at Bakar at 
4 P.M. Men far behind ; some did not come up until dark, and 
two men came to grief inthe stream here, soaking my cartridge 
bag with note-book, &c. in it and nearly losing a rifle. There 
are about 40 houses here. Put upin the house of the son 
of an old white-haired man who is slightly crazy and is Péng- 
hilu MAHOMED DAHARI’S grandfather. He says he opened 
this place originally, and that he was the first man to settle in 
Hulu Selama, and that his son came afterwards and opened 
up the place. 
They are all Patanis here ; went to sleep in the atmosphere 
of a cattle-shed ; there were buffaloes stabled beneath me. 
27th November.—Started at 8 A.M., wading through padi 
fields; crossed Sungei Bakar twice; it runs into the Si 
Puteh and that into the Sedin. Some Chinese were going 
down with rafts of timber of three logs each. The Sedin takes 
them down to Kwala Muda. Went through a J/alang field 
called Padang Malow, and crossed a stream of the same 
name; water up to armpits. Passed some fine padz land 
all abandoned, called Padang Blam, and a stream of that 
name; path under water for about half a mile; this was a 
lively half-mile for all of us, as the water in this field was 
teeming with enormous horse-leeches, the first I have ever 
met with; they were about 6 inches long. Fine groves of 
durian and other fruit trees all abandoned. They say that 
hantu killed all the cattle and other animals, and a lot of 
people died too. At 1 P.M. arrived at Kampong Badan, and 
stopped for refreshment beside Sungei Tawar. ‘There are 
fine padi fields here; eighteen houses. Went onat 2 P.M.; 
crossed the Sungei Badan, and arrived at Sungei Sedin at 
