COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. us 7/ 
course taken by Mr. CAMERON in his journey from the Sungei 
Ryah to Pahang. Gunong Brumbun was exactly E. S. E. 
from us, but there was a valley and then a mountain, rather 
higher than the one we were then on which was 5,270 feet high, 
and then another deep valley to be traversed before the real 
ascent of it could be commenced. 
On our return in the afternoon to the camp, we found 
MAHROPE had arrived. His foot was nearly well again, we were 
glad to see. With him were the Sakais who were sent back 
on the 12th to bring on the baggage left at Kuala Ser- 
um. 
: On the 14th we moved to a new camp which had been pre- 
pared during the two preceding days on a better site than 
that occupied by the old one and with a small clearing round 
it, so as to allow of the sun drying off the numerous botanical 
specimens we had been collecting. 
Early on the morning of the 15th we, that is, 3 Malays, 2 
Klings, 16 Sakais and ourselves, left the new camp in charge of 
JELLAH and a Malay, after having discharged all the other Sa- 
kais, and ascended nearly to the summit of Gunong Ulu Batang 
Padang, then struck down the S. E. face of it, passing the old 
camp made by the previous expedition, and skirted round the 
hill till we came to the Gunong Ulu Sekum, round the eastern 
face of which, we also went, then crossed two long projecting 
spurs of it, and descended by a gully to the valley of a tributary 
of the River Jalai, on the banks of which we camped, at an 
elevation of 4,590 feet. This stream takes the drainage of the 
N. W. slopes of Brumbun and the S. E. slopes of Gunong Ulu 
Sekum and flows down inan E.N. E. direction to join the 
Jillah, as the upper part of the Pahang River is called. 
Near our camp I again saw the same handsome yellow- 
flowered Rhododendron that 1 previously met with on Batu 
Puteh, but this time it was growing as an epiphyte high up on 
a huge tree. 
I captured in the evening a particularly handsome member 
of the Glomeridz family, probably belonging to the genus 
Zephronia. It was one of those creatures much like a large 
woodlouse, but really nearly related to the Fulide (Millepedes). 
It was black striped transversely with pale blue-green and 
