164 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 
some stream and there is thus nothing to guide any one in 
attempting to follow one. This, we were informed, is inten- 
tional and, in times past, was a necessary measure to prevent 
their being followed and hunted out of their mountain homes 
by the Malays. 
The last crossing of the Kampar was made on a huge tree 
trunk, by the bare-footed portion of the party and then we 
took a track leading to Gopeng, which we reached at about 
6 p.m., after a march of nearly 12 hours. The ragged and 
travel stained appearance of the whole party seemed to afford 
much amusement to the Chinese in the streets of Gopeng, 
and we were received with shouts of derisive laughter by the 
crowd round the gambling farm. We put up in the Rest- 
house, and thoroughly enjoyed sleeping on the plank floor 
(the beds being engaged) after a three weeks’ spell of beds 
made of jungle sticks. 
After buying knives and sarongs for the guides, on the morn- 
ing of the 24th we proceeded to Kota Bharu and on the 25th 
continued our way, following the Kuala Dipang Road. When 
about four miles had been traversed MAHROPE was taken 
ill with fever and became light-headed, and could not walk 
any further, so he had to be carried to Kampong Plikat and 
left there in a Malay house, with two of the Sakais to look 
after him. On reaching Kuala Dipang we sent KALANA and 
five men, who had arrived by another road from Gopeng, 
back to Kampong Plikat, to bring him on the next morning. 
On the 26th KALANA arrived bringing MAHROPE, and we then 
started, leaving the Kling to look after him, and reached 
Tapa in 7 hours including stoppages. 
The wet weather had by this time set in in earnest, so that 
I decided not to go up to the camp on Ulu Batang Padang 
again, but only to send up some Sakais to bring down all the 
collections left there. | 
On the 2nd November, KAREM and 15 Sakais therefore left 
Tapa, and on the 1oth the whole of the party returned, and on 
the 16th we went down the river in two boats to Telok Anson, 
and reached Larut on the roth in the S. S. Mena. 
The botanical specimens collected during the trip numbered 
1,200 species, and the birds 187 skins. The plants have all 
