124 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 
the soil a considerable admixture of the detritus of the grani- 
tic formations of which the higher hills in Batang Padang, as 
in other parts of the State, are exclusively composed. 
My party consisted of Mr. JELLAH, the Collector and Taxi- 
dermist of the Museum, a Kling called HARISON, whom I 
engaged to help in the collection of botanical specimens—he 
having had three or four years’ experience in the same work 
with the late Mr. KUNSTLER—a Malay called MAHRAsIT, and 
a Malay ‘‘boy ’ who accompanied the late Mr. CAMERON on 
many of his explorations. The two former came up in the 
boat to Tapa with the baggage, and the two latter overland 
with me. 
The boat arrived on the evening of the 11th, having been 
five days and-a-half coming a distance of about 20 miles as 
the crow flies; and on the 12th the baggage was moved into 
an empty shop in the village. 
The great amount of impedimenta which it is necessary to 
take about with one ona collecting expedition, is a most 
serious drawback, when once the roads are left ; but without 
it nothing can be done, and one might just as well stay at 
home. ‘The worst part of it is, that the longer the trip lasts 
the more the baggage increases, instead of decreasing as it 
does on an ordinary occasion. 
Toh BIAS, the Penghulu of Tapa, having a few days before 
I arrived married a new wife, could not be induced to leave 
his bride and go to Kuala Woh to look for Sakais to carry 
up the baggage to Gunong Batu Puteh, till the 12th, and then 
he went very unwillingly, and it was six days more before 
they began to arrive at Tapa, and then only ten men came. 
My brother, Mr. CEcIL Wray, then sent to Chendariang for 
some, but without success. The difficulty at that time in 
obtaining Sakais was that they were all felling and burning 
the jungle to plant rice for the next season’s crop. 
During this enforced stay at Tapa, we went out every day 
collecting, and got 32 species of plants, 27 bird skins, and 3 
mammals, besides many insects. I also took some photo- 
graphs of some of the most typical of the Sakais. 
On the 25th we were able to leave Tapa. We then had 
22 Sakais, and the heavy baggage had to be put into two boats 
