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



got a good view of the Tahan range — a broken ridge densely 

 covered with trees. On one side could be seen a vertical clifif 

 white in colour and possibly of limestone more or less clothed 

 with vegetation and to the North rose the big peak of Gunong 

 Tahan. It did not appear to be of the estimated height of 

 14,000 feet, and is probably not more than 8,000 to 10,000 

 feet in altitude. 



On the 1st of August, Mr. RiDLEY sent back all his men to 

 assist in bringing up stores, and the whole were brought up to 

 the 6th camp. The next morning twelve men in charge of a 

 mandor were sent back to Kuala Tenok to bring up all avail- 

 able rice'and fish, the rest of the men moved everything on to 

 the 7th camp. The road between the 6th and 7th camps was 

 very bad being mostly along the side of a steep hill. Mr. 

 Ridley had also been obliged to cut down a tree of consider- 

 able size to form a bridge over the river. 



On the 3rd, Mr. RiDLEY and Mr. TowNSON with some men 

 went on cutting the path, and formed a fresh camp about a 

 mile and-a-half ahead, while Mr. DAVISON and Mr. Kelsall 

 did some collecting. 



On the 4th, Mr. RiDLEY and party went on about one 

 and-a-half or two miles and formed the 9th and what proved to 

 be the last camp. Mr. Kelsall and Mr, Davison went on 

 collecting, Mr. Kelsall going as far as a little beyond the 

 9th camp. The twelve men who had been sent back for rice 

 returned this day. 



The 5th and 6th were spent by Mr. Ridley's party trying 

 various routes as it appeared impossible to continue along the 

 banks of the Tahan beyond the 9th camp owing to the steep- 

 ness of the hills between which the river here flows and at 

 last they tack a well-worn Sakai track which went away in a 

 South-westerly direction and then turned North again. This 

 track followed roughly the direction of a small stream which 

 falls into the Tahan from the West and which appeared to 

 come from the slopes of Gunong Tahan. After following this 

 track for some distance they left it and ascended a hi<h ridge 

 which barred further progress up the valley of the Tahan, 

 at its lowest point. 



