FOURNAL OR A TRIP 10 PAHANG, &c. 
WITH 
ieee ele GOV EIN NOR. 
August, 17th to 27th, 1889. 
WE) “Started from Singapore in the Sea Belle at 4.45 
2 P.M. on Saturday, the 17th August. Reached Pulau 
’ aA Tioman before daylight on the 18th. Put into a 
bay onthe S. E. side of the island, but, owing to 
a the heavy swell, had to go on to Nipah Bay on 
the western side. 
The Island of Tioman is hilly, very rocky, and heavily 
wooded. We landed at Nipah Bay soon after 6 A.M., and 
returned on board soon after g A.M. At the spot where we 
landed there is asmall Malay Settlement called Kampong 
Nipah. The beach is sandy, with a large admixture of coral 
detritus. Beyond high-water mark, the beach is covered with 
grass and a variety of plants, the most conspicuous being the 
Goat’s-foot Convolvulus. Beyond the beach, and running 
parallel with the sea-line, is a creek twenty to thirty feet 
wide, discharging into the sea at the base of a hill about a 
couple of hundred yards to the south of where we landed. 
The ground commences to rise almost immediately behind 
this creek. The whole place is heavily wooded, and every- 
where there crop up boulders, of all sizes and shapes, of 
granite. There are a good number of coco-nut trees, but 
they appear to have been badly attacked by beetles. There 
was one splendid grove of durian trees, and many others 
scattered about the kampong. I noticed also several lime- 
trees, one with a large number of unripe fruit on it. 
Of birds, mammals, reptiles and insects, I saw hardly any- ° 
thing. Of birds, I only saw one snipet (Tringoides hypoleucus), 
