COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 137 
On the 3rd August I sent off the baggage up the river from 
Tapa ina boat, and then followed overland to Kuala W oh. 
On the road near Breumen I collected flowering specimens of 
the bamboo which forms the greater partjof the bamboo 
forests. It goes by the native name of duluh telor, and has 
a stem usually striped with pale greenish white of 23 inches or 
so in diameter, and forty to sixty feet long. 
I reached Woh at about 4 P.M., and the boat half-an-hour 
afterwards. On arrival I was greatly disappointed to find 
that though Toh BIAS had assured me there were Sakais at 
Kuala Woh awaiting me, not one man was to be found. | 
was told that Toh BrAS_ had neither been there himself to 
collect them, nor had he sent any one else to do so. It was 
not till Sunday, the 7th, that enough Sakais were got together 
to carry up the baggage. During these three days I collected 
plants and visited some of the Sakai /adangs near Woh. 
The parcelling out of the baggage to the Sakais is always 
a work of time. ‘They all, of course, look out for the lightest 
packages, and you find them going off and leaving a good 
half of it behind. Then comes a re-arrangement and perhaps 
a second and even a third before it is equally divided, but 
afterwards there is no more trouble, each man keeping to his 
own load. I had one little box of shot which took some of 
the men in ina most ridiculous manner. They all thought 
it a charming little package until they came to try its weight. 
At 9.45 on the morning of the 7th, having distributed the 
baggage, we left Kuala Woh and reached the camp at 
Ulu Woh at 12.30 P.M., and on the following morning at 7.30 
A.M. started again and passed the new camp on Batu Puteh 
at 10 A.M., and reached the higher one at noon. 
On the morning of the gth we found that eleven of the 
fifteen Sakais had left during the night, so that we only had 
four left to help carrying the baggage up to the top of the 
hill. We left the camp at 8A.M., and halted at noon at.a 
cave I had noticed on my first visit, and which seemed likely | 
to form a shelter from the rain. It was not exactly a cave, 
but a cavity formed by one huge rock lying on and supported 
on either side by two other masses of rock. The space 
beneath it was about 30 feet long by 10 feet wide, and from 
