COLERCTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 153 
dried all the collections from the hills and packed them up, 
and made preparations for the trip to Ulu Batang Padang and 
Gunong Brumbum. 
JELLAH had an attack of ague and then dysentery and was 
unfit for work most of the time, so that not many birds or 
animals were collected. MAHRASIT was also in the hands of 
the Apothecary most of the time, and MAHMOT was so ill with 
fever that I paid him off and engaged another man in his 
place. I paid another visit to Chendariang and also to Klian 
Mas and Sungei Chuchu, to which a new track had been 
traced, suitable for a cart-road, and was found to measure 
only two and-a-half miles from Tapa. 
On the 5th October we left Tapa and proceeded to Kuala 
Woh and put up for the night in an empty house at that place, 
and at 8.15 A.M. onthe morning of the 6th continued our way 
up the valley of the Batang Padang. The party consisted of 60 
in all and even then we had to leavea quantity of rice and other 
things at Kuala Woh for want of transport. The difficulty 
on these expeditions is that the rice, fish and other necessaries 
for the transport coolies, employ more than half of their num- 
ber and soleave only a few men available for the baggage of 
the rest of the party. 
Both branches of the river having risen about 4 feet during 
the heavy rain of the preceding night, the Batang Padang 
was not fordable, and so we all had to cross it in boats, which 
was safely accomplished with the exception that one Sakai 
with his load tumbled head over heels into the river. There 
was great excitement amongst our Malays, as it was thought 
that his load consisted of the salt and sugar, but an investiga- 
tion showed it to be only rice. 
We then followed a N. E. and subsequently a N. W. course 
keeping close to the river all the way. The river is practicable 
for boats only for about half a mile above Kuala Woh, beyond 
that there are many small waterfalls and boiling rapids through 
which no boat could pass. At Lubo Tiang, where we camped 
for the night, the angle at which a long reach of the river is 
falling is 1.10’ or about 1 in 45. 
After leaving Kuala Woh we passed over many exposures 
of stratified rocks and it was only in the latter part of the 
