156 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 
any new birds, and all those I had seen during the day were of 
the same species as those we had previously collected on 
Gunong Batu Puteh. Later on in the afternoon, KALANA and 
14 Sakais arrived with more rice and stores. : 
Early on the morning of the roth we sent back KAREM and 
16 Sakais to Kuala Woh to bring on more baggage and stores, 
and then started on again up the river. MAHROPE having a 
bad foot we had to leave him and a Kling, who came up with 
KALANA the day before at Kuala Sengum, until he was well 
enough to follow us. We passed a pretty waterfall during 
the day, formed by a tributary falling into the Batang Padang 
from the right, as you go up stream. There was a fine rain- 
bow formed by the spray, which the Malays would have it was 
a hantu. 
We camped again on the banks of the river, and on the r1th 
followed it up forsome hours. The track taking us oversome 
places which were anything but easy walking, or rather climb- 
ing. We then left the river, shortly after passing a fine water- 
fall, or more properly succession of falls, and ascended Gunong 
Ulu Batang Padang, and camped on its N. E. face at a height 
of 4,170 feet above the sea. 
On the 12th we went up to the summit of the mountain, and 
from the ‘Crow’s Nests’’ on the top of the trees, that were 
made some six months before by KALANA during the first expe- 
dition to thése mountains; and were so fortunate as to obtain 
fine views of the Kinta Hills and the intervening country. I 
took two photographs, from one of these unsteady and perilous 
perches, of the hills and valleys which constitute what is so 
inaccurately described as “‘Cameron’s Plateau.” 
We decided that the route taken by the late Mr. CAMERON 
must have been through the valley next to that of the Batang 
Padang, and divided from it only by the Laut Tingal ridge, 
and not more than four miles distant, as the crow flies, from the 
mountain we were then-on. | 
On the 13th we again went up to the ‘‘ Crow’s Nests”’ to 
make sure of some of the hills which we could not make out on 
the previous day, and to settle on the course to take to reach 
Gunong Brumbum. This day we distinctly saw Batu Gaja in 
KKinta, bearing 283.30. This sight removed all doubt as to the 
