160 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 
of the Batang Padang valley, to ascertain the height of the 
pass or watershed dividing the waters flowing into Perak on 
the one side, and Pahang on the other, which we found to be 
3,800 feet above sea level. 
Our party consisted of 16 Sakais, two Malay boys, KALANA 
the Malay 4ranz, one Kling coolie and ourselves. We only 
took provisions sufficient for 5 days, besides our clothes; all 
the collecting things, guns, &c., we left at the camp in charge 
of JELLAH and my other two men. 
The course taken to find the top of the pass was about North- 
East and the consequence was that we went a long way out of 
our proper direction, which ought to have been W.N. W. 
Our progress was very slow, as we had, as on the ascent of 
Gunong Brumbun, to cut a track the whole way. We camped 
by the side of a small stream, and while the banana leaf huts 
were being built, Mr. C. WRaAy and I went up a hill near by 
in the hopes of getting a sight of some hills whose outlines we 
know, but beyond catching a glimpse of Brumbun we saw 
nothing that could be recognised. 
The next day, the 20th, we took a westerly course which led 
us diagonally across the Batang Padang valley, and eventually 
on to the ridge dividing it from the valley of the Telum. On 
the top of this ridge there was a good Sakai track, which we 
followed for some time until it began to take a S. W. course, 
when we left it and struck down a spur in a northerly direction 
into what we hoped was the Telum Valley, and at about 4 P. M. 
came to that river, which was about 60 feet broad at the place 
we first saw it, at an elevation of 3,200 feet. We here camped 
on the site of one of Mr. CAMERON’S old camps, and by the side 
of the river was a track which was undoubtedly his track. The 
elephant marks being still distinctly visible. MAHROPE, who 
was with Mr. CAMERON on his journey through this valley, 
told us that two days’ march further down the stream would 
take us to a place where the river was navigable for rakets. 
Growing along the banks of the river, we found quantities of 
violets with pale coloured, but sweet-scented flowers, which 
have been identified by Dr. KING as Viola Thomsont, and are 
said by him to be common to the mountains of India, Java, and 
Sumatra. There were also a considerable number of species 
