A Journey to the Source of the Indau. 



BY 



H. W. LAKE. 



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N August 2nd, 1891, in pursuance of instructions 

 received from H. H. the Sultan of Johor, I left 

 Johor Baharu on the Government Steamer Pidai, 

 bound for Kuala Indau. One of the objects of the party of 

 which I was in charge was to determine more exactly, if pos- 

 sible, the source of the Indau River. 



Existing maps, notably that published under the auspices 

 of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, show the 

 Indau as a comparatively small river, having its source a 

 little beyond Mount Janing, in Johor Territory, and emptying 

 itself into the China Sea in Lat 2° 40' o" and Long. 103° 36' 10". 



In 1879, Mr. D. F. A. Hervey explored the Indau Sem- 

 brong, a large tributary of the Indau proper, and afterwards 

 published a most interesting account of his journey in the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society. 



In 1875 VON MiKLUCHO Maclay went up the Indau to 

 Mount Janing, from thence, however, he appears to have 

 turned seawards to Pekan. 



Some few other Europeans have, I believe, penetrated as 

 far as Mount Janing : beyond this point, however, nothing de- 

 finite seems to have been known either of the course of the 

 Indau, or the topography of the hill country where it takes 

 its rise. 



Owing to special work, which necessitated our calling at 

 the Sedili Rivers, the Ptdai did not arrive off Kuala Indau 

 until August iith. 



