162 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 
of the men returned, but were a long time in doubt as to our 
intentions. 
The promise of some savongs and knives induced our hosts 
to agree to show us a way over a pass on the southern spur of 
Gunong Chabong. It would have been interesting to have 
recovered CAMERON’S track, but as we had already been out 
three days and so had only provisions for two more, we deci- 
ded to take the southern track. The branch of the Telum 
we had followed has its source on Gunong Enas, and as far as 
we could understand from the local Sakais, CAMERON’S track 
was more to the North, in fact, followed the ridge of hills form- 
ing the northern boundary of the upper part of the Telum Val- 
ley. 
The house in which we passed the night was a large and 
well built one and seemed to be occupied by two families. It 
was at an elevation of about 4,000 feet, and being perched on 
the top of a cleared hill fully exposed to the winds we found 
it very cold. 
Hanging up in the house were strings of the lower jaws of 
monkeys, musangs and other animals, and in another house we 
saw bunches of hornbill skulls. They are kept hanging up 
in the smoke as trophies in the same way as the Dyaks keep 
human heads in their houses. Another custom which seems to 
point to a connection between the two races is that they keep 
large fires burning in the centre of their houses during the night, 
and that it is only during the first part of the night that they 
sleep, after that they sit up round the fire and talk till morning. 
The spirits of all our following were much higher than they 
had been since we left Gunong Ulu Batang Padang, as hopes 
were now entertained of reaching Kinta, which, until our falling 
in with these Sakais, they had deemed to be impossible. 
Accompanied on the 22nd by our hosts of the preceding 
night we returned to the foot of Gunong Jimawah, a steep rocky 
hill which juts out into the Telum Valley, and followed the 
branch of the river which passes on the southern side of it, and 
at about 1 P. M. reached the pass between the source of the 
Telum and the source of the Kampar River. This pass is 4,170 
feet above sea level, and is a narrow ridge with sides so nearly 
vertical that the ascent on one side and the descent on the 
