A JOURNEY ON THE SEMBRONG 

 RIVER. 



From Kuala Indau to Batu Pahat. 



By H. W. lake and H. J. KELSALL, e.a. 



Personal Account of the Journey. 



The party, consisting- of Mr. Lake and mj'self, with a native 

 surveyor and native bird and plant collectors, left Johor Bahru in 

 the launch Pulai on the 15th October, 1892, and that evening- 

 anchored at Tanjong- Sural at the mouth of the Johor river. 



Getting under way at 6 a. no. the following- morning', we 

 reached Tanjong- Tingaroh, about 70 miles up the east coast of 

 Johor, shortly before nightfall. 



Here Mr. Lake went off in a dingy to make a rapid survey 

 of the small rivei' Tingorah, which enters the sea just south of the 

 point, while I went ashore to collect. On the rocks at the end 

 of the cape were quantities of Orchids, the most conspicuous 

 being Cirrhopetalum Medusce, C. concinnum and the common 

 Pigeon Orchid (DendrohhimJ. 



The only birds I noticed were a single large heron fArdea 

 Crumenatum) some terns, green pigeon and the common little king 

 fisher (Alcedo ispida). 



Early the next day the Pulai steamed into Kuala Indau 

 under the pilotage of a piratical-looking- old Malay whom we 

 picked up outside the bar with which this river, like all these on 

 the east coast of Malaya, is furnished. 



Here we all disembarked and while Mr. Lake was making ar- 

 rangements for boats, etc., for tl:e journey up the river, I went 

 forth in search of spoils, zoological and botanical, but met with 

 but little success. 



