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bination of swamp and river, I heard at 7.45 a.m. three volleys 
of musketry fired some distance off. I learnt afterwards at 
Selama that they had been fired by the Police there under the 
Colonial Secretary (Mr. J. W. W. BircH) as a salute on hoist- 
ing the British flag. The next stream which I crossed was 
Sungei Kasai, near which (at Sungei Buluh) there was a de- 
serted house formerly occupied by some Pérak Malays who had 
opened a tin mine here without success. Near this place we 
met two Malays proceeding from Dingin to Sungei Kechil, 
who were induced to return and guide us to Selama, as my 
own guides did not profess to know anything of the route 
beyond Dingin. After passing another swamp (Sungei Ten- 
gas River) we crossed the lower part of Bukit Tengas, the 
only hill on the way after leaving HADI’s kampong. After 
descending the hill, we soon struck the Sungei Tengas, the 
stream of which we followed until its junction with the 
Sungei Dingin, which runs into the Krian. At this place 
there is a large clearing. Paddy was growing on recently 
cleared ground, and there were several houses surrounded by 
small plantations of Indian corn and plantains. At the junc- 
tion of the two rivers, the stream was almost choked by large 
logs of timber ready to be made up into rafts and floated 
down the Dingin River to the Krian and thence to the Penang 
market. At ashort distance beyond the Dingin River we 
reached the house of the Chinese wood-cutters, twelve in all, 
to whom the timber belonged. They had a shed full of rat- 
tans as well. Two creeks of the Krian River were next suc- 
cessively crossed, and at 1 p.m. we reached the Krian River it- 
self. At this point the Malay facilities for crossing the river, 
which is very rapid, are some sunken logs to serve as footing 
and a slack rattan line fastened to trees on either side with 
which to steady oneself. My party were spared the necessity 
of testing the value of this apparatus by the timely appear- 
ance of two boats bound for Mahang (further up the river) by 
which we were ferried across. The place where we crossed 
the river was considerably above Kwala Selama (CHE KAR- 
IM’S settlement), and we had a long walk through the forest, 
passing several houses of wood-cutters and boat-builders, to 
the Selama River, which we reached about 3 p.m. 
