COLLECTING EXPEDITION: TO BATANG PADANG. 151 
der of the baggage arrived, and I was busy in cleaning and 
drying the photographic instruments, guns and other things 
which had been wetted in the river, and in the evening, when 
I opened the dark slides I was sorry to find that the water 
had got into them all and spoiled the plates. 
Onethe rth | had a quantity of Chinese paper cut to’size 
and began shifting dried plants from the pressing paper into 
it, and early the next day, the 14th, some men were sent with 
my boy to dive for the things which had been lost when the 
dug-out upset. They recovered some of them, but.a good 
many still remained at the bottom of the river, though, fortu- 
nately, they were of no great value. 
Shortly after seven the same morning, I accompanied Mr. 
STALLARD and my brother to the valley of the Sungei Klian 
Mas. We struck the stream near its junction with the Batang 
Padang River and waded up it for three or four miles. We 
made several trials of the earth forming the banks, and in 
nearly all obtained good shows of not only tin-sand but also 
of gold. Some fifteen years agoor so there was a Malay 
kampong on the banks of this stream, and the inhabitants 
subsisted principally by mining, but as they refused to pay 
blackmail to Sheik MAHOMED of Lower Perak, he came up 
with some fighting men, and burned the houses down and 
drove away the inhabitants. ~ 
We saw many of the old workings in our progress up the 
river, which we followed to near its source, and then ascended 
alow range of hills which forms the watershed between the 
streams flowing into the Batang Padang above the River Tapa 
and the streams flowing into the Bidor River. We then fol- 
lowed along on the top of this ridge until we came to another 
river, and from there we went toa place on a tributary of 
it called the Sungei Chuchu, where some Malays were going to 
begin mining. We washed some of the earth of the banks 
of the stream, and obtained samples of very good coarse 
grained tin-sand containing gold. The tin was found to 
occur from the surface of the ground down to the bed rock, 
which, both here and in the valley of the Sungei Klian Mas, 
consists of beds of slates and clay slates with frequent veins of 
quartz intersecting them. No trace of granite is to be found 
