120 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 
Woh with 21 Sakais as baggage carriers, but as they could 
take only a small part of it, I was forced to leave a great quanti- 
ty at Kuala Woh in charge of JELLAH and HARISON. 
For the first few miles after leaving Kuala Woh, the jungle 
is almost exclusively bamboo. This land is undulating and of 
fine quality, but it ends at Changkat Berchilding, and then 
the track passes over some considerable hills and down into 
some valleys of which the soil is apparently good, but the slopes 
are steep and the Sakais have spoiled large portions of it by 
making dadangs. 
It is as well to mention that there is no reason why the track 
should go over all these hills, except that native tracks always 
do go over the extreme tops of all hills which are anywhere 
near the line of route. 
We reached the foot of Gunong Batu Puteh at 12.50 P. M., 
and camped for the night on the banks of the Woh. This 
place is) 1,030 fect above sea level. The thermometer showed 
the following temperatures :—at 3 P. M. 70° F., and at 9 P. M. 
72°, and at another visit on August 7th it showed at 2.15 P. M. 
78; at 5 P.M. 72°, and the next morning at 6 AJM) 667 
At the foot of Batu Puteh, bamboo jungle again appears, 
and as this is at an elevation of 1,030 feet, it would be most 
valuable tea land if of sufficient extent and looked at from the 
top of the rocky spur on Gunong Batu Puteh it seems to be of 
considerable area. In fact a track of bamboo jungle appears 
to run right up the valley of the Woh from its kuala to the 
camp, and possibly much farther. 
At 7.40 A.M. on the 27th we left the camp onvthem Vien 
and reached the south-west spur of Gunong Batu Puteh at 
12.50 P.'M. This spot is 4,300 feet above ‘seal levelainy 
aneroid, and is the place on which the previous expedition 
camped. 
Having set all hands to work re-making the old huts, we 
climbed the rock on the top of the spur, but the driving clouds 
hid almost everything, and we had several sharp showers of 
rain while there. There were firs, myrtles and other moun- 
tain plants on the top and sides of the rock, and we found a 
few pretty ground orchids, one in particular with a bunch of 
large yellow flowers on a stalk two or three feet high, anda 
