S JOURNEY OX THE SEMBEOXG EIVEE. 



P'niot, where there is a curions narrow tortuous channel or 

 "trusan" called Kahang- Kudun, which connectsthe Madek 

 with the Kahang and is in fact a branch of the former river. It 

 took twenty minutes to pass from the Kahang to the Madek 

 which is a narrow stream much encumbered, as previously stated, 

 with fallen trees. Up this stream I proceeded some miles, when, 

 learning from the Jakun boatmen that there were no more 

 villages further up stream, I decided to return to Kampong P'niot, 

 which I reached about 4 p. m. 



This settlement has been in existence about a year, the 

 inhabitants having previously lived at Hulu Madek for six years. 

 It seems that these Jakuns move from place to place in the 

 Indau and Sembong districts, but seldom or never cross over 

 to the western side of the watershed, though one instance of 

 such a migration was met with at Londang on the Hulu Sem- 

 brong, but this was an exception. These people settle down in 

 one place, make a clearing and plant hill padi (of which they usually 

 obtain but one orop), "jagong," or maize and plantains, and remain 

 till the ground is pretty well worn out or till they have exhaust- 

 ed the stock of rotans and getah in the neighbouring jungles, 

 when they move to another locality and repeat the same opera- 

 tions. Crocodiles were said to occur in the Kahang river and 

 we saw the grave of a man who had been killed by one a short 

 time previously but we never saw any ourselves. 



I remained camped at Kampong P'niot for three days until 

 Mr. Lake's return from Hulu Kahang and spent most of the time 

 collecting " Pantang Kapur" vocabulary. The day after my 

 arrival the "Batin." or head man of the village, Pasooah by 

 name, came down stream from Hulu Madek, where he had been 

 with some of his men looking for rotans. This man is a "Peng- 

 hulu Kapur," as they call any man who is more clever than 

 obiiers at finding camphor and from him I learned a large number 

 of words. The common wau-wau, or Ungka (Hylohates alhi- 

 manu.^J was plentiful in the jungle here but no specimens were 

 obtained. The common black lotong f Set nnopith ecus ohscurusj 

 was also met with in numbers and I got several specimens. 

 Birds were not very numerous, but one new record for the Malay 

 peninsula, viz., the fork tailed drongo (Diamus macrocercus) 

 w^as secured. 



