42 ACCOUNT OF A TRIP UP THE PAHANG, AND OTHER RIVERS. 



some of our stores which had been left on the shingle bank 

 instead of being moved up to our store-house on the bank, 

 we woke, however, just in time to save them. 



On the 23rd Mr. Kelsall with three men to cut a path 

 ascended a hill about six or seven hundred feet high about two 

 miles N. E. of Kuala Tahan and from the top of a tree got a view 

 of a high ranged mountain about 20 to 30 miles distant to the N. 

 W. This was doubtless the Tahan range. It consisted of a long 

 range running apparently N. E. and S. W. and culminating in 

 several peaks, the highest of which was towards the N. E. end of 

 the range and appeared to be from 8,000 to 10,000 feet high. 



Mr. Ridley also ascended some of the hills in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Kuala Tenok in the hopes of getting a view and 

 saw a high range to the S. E. which he could not identify but 

 owing to the density of the jungle he could not see any 

 distance in other direction. 



On the 24th, Messrs. Davison and Kelsall with the 

 remaining stores proceeded to Kuala Tenok, the boats having 

 returned the previous evening. Two men were left at Kuala 

 Tahan in charge of stores we left behind and six coolies for 

 whom there was no room in the boats. Owing to Mr. RiDLEY 

 having cleared a passage for the boats and to the greater 

 depth of water due to the heavy rain that had fallen they were 

 able to accomplish in 4^ hours what had taken Mr. RiDLEY 

 almost two days in spite of the fact that the boats had to be 

 dragged over shoals almost half the distance traversed. 



Finding that it was impossible to get the boats any higher 

 up the river, Mr. RiDLEY had commenced cutting a path along 

 the right bank. 



The jungle is very thick for the most part and contains a 

 considerable number of valuable timber trees such as Tarn- 

 penis, Kayu Minyak and other dipterocarpous trees but the 

 river is too shallow and full of rapids to allow of their being 

 floated down in the usual way. There is also still a consider- 

 able quantity of getah percha [Dichopsis gutta), getah grip 

 ( Willugkbeia edidis), besides jelutong and other gutta-pro- 

 ducing trees of less value. Rotans of various species are also 

 very abundant and there is much danimar. 



