120 SELAMA TO PONG, PATANI. 
the dalez, Hulu Selama, at 5.30 P.M., just as it was getting 
dark, a good day’s work considering the road and that we had 
been on the steady march without a spell off for 15 days. 
29th November.—7.30 A.M. started in boat for Kwala Sela- 
ma. Delayed a good deal by fallen trees in three places ; 
arrived about 3 P.M. 
ARTHUR @ Bry 
[ In connection with Mr. DEw’s paper, the following brief account of a jour- 
ney on foot from Province Wellesley to Selama on the 9th and 10th October, 
1874, may be of interest. Selama was then in its infancy asa mining settle- 
ment and the paths leading to it were entirely unexplored by Europeans.— 
W.E. M. ] 
I went to Sempang Ampat on Thursday, the 8th instant, 
and passed the night at the police station there in order to 
effect an early start on the following morning. On Friday 
morning I was met by five Pénghulus* and about fifteen ra’ 
iyats, who were to accompany me to Selama, and started 
with them and four Hindu coolies as baggage-carriers at 
am. 
The Kedah boundary is reached immediately on leaving 
Tasek Estate, which extends up to the frontier ; from thence 
there are paths which have been made at different times by 
Chinese wood-cutters, by one of which I reached the foot of 
the range of hills which les between Tasek and Serdang. 
The first two or three hours were occupied in crossing the 
range by a difficult path, which, in most places, was nothing 
but a mere track in the jungle. A succession of small hills 
had to be crossed (the Malays declare that there are thirty- 
three of them) the last and highest of which is called -Bélakang 
* IsMAIL, Pénghtlu of Chero Tukun; Mar Puten, Pénghulu of Junjong; 
Daup, Pénghtlu of Pijangan; JAMAL, Pénghtlu of Chempadak; and 
LananG, Pénghtlu of Tasek. 
