4 A JOURNEY. TO THE SOURCE, OF THE INDAU. 



man's scalp wounds I judged to be of a fatal nature, the other, 

 a youngster, was badly bitten in the forearm. They both re- 

 fused to be treated by an European, and later in the day I 

 saw them lying in the blazing sun with their wounds well 

 smeared with wood ashes and wrapped in leaves. After this 

 occurrence we found the tiger traps, consisting of a bamboo 

 spear set across the paths, after the manner of a spring gun, 

 a great deal more alarming than the idea of the tigers them- 

 selves, and that same evening a man w^as fatally wounded in 

 the thigh by carelessly stepping across a trap of this kind. 



I took advantage of the delay at Batu Gajah to ascend 

 Gunong Janing. This mountain is situated on the left bank 

 of the Indau, and is consequently in Johor territory. The 

 ascent commences from the river bank and is at first fairly 

 easy. The last few hundred feet, however, is as steep as it 

 well can be without being absolutely perpendicular, and in 

 many places the Jakuns had to build ladders of poles lashed 

 with rotan. 



The height of Janing, determined by aneroid barometer, is 

 1,950 feet. As far as I was enabled to judge, the mountain 

 is largely if not entirely composed of a coarse whitish sand- 

 stone wiiich crops out here and there in wall-like masses. 

 The summit is densely wooded, and it was only by building 

 a ladder to the top of a tall tree that a complete view of the 

 surrounding country could be obtained. 



Janing appears to be the chief of a small group of hills 

 which rise on either bank of the Indau; Kendok, a long ridge- 

 like hill, lies opposite Janing on the Pahang' bank. 



Away to th3 South on the verge of the horizon are the 

 Belumut hills with the two chief summits — Gunong Belumut 

 and Gunong Chemundong — distinctly visible. 



To the North and North-East lies the jungle-covered plain 

 of the Rumpin River, with the sea beyond, whilst to the 

 North-West a confused mass of hills and mountains stretch 

 away as far as the eye can reach, amongst these is the source 

 of the Indau. 



With a field glass I could make out the long spit of sand 

 at Kuala Indau with Tiuman Island in the offing. 



