20 JOURNEY ON THE SEMBRONG RIVER. 



twenty-four miles above Kuala Sembrong-. The stream is 

 shallow and sandy, the banks are high and consist of clays 

 and clay shales. At the Kuala there is a large clearing, 

 occupied by about forty Jakuns ; these people lived formerly at 

 Batu Gajah, a few miles further up the Indau. They plant padi 

 at Lemaku, but are chiefly engaged in collecting' jungle produce. 

 They appear to be a very thrifty and hard-working people. 



(K) The Indau Sembrong River. — 



This river is a tributary of the Indau, joining it at a distance 

 of thirty miles from the China Sea, in Lat. 2° 25' 50" N. and 

 Long. 103° 36' 45" E. 



At the mouth the Indau Sembrong is about seventy-five 

 yards wide. There is a Johore Government Station and a few 

 Malay houses. There are some extensive clearings on the right 

 bank, where the Penghulu of the district lives ; several families 

 from Pahang have lately settled here. At one and three quarter 

 miles up stream the Linggor, a large tribi^tary, flows in on the 

 right bank ; the course of this stream is north westerly, the 

 mouth is about twenty -five yards wide, the stream sluggish, but 

 deep, and the banks low and swampy. The source of the Linggor 

 is said to be to the South, in the Blumut range. Ten miles from 

 the mouth there is a small Jakun settlement. 



Kuala Kahang is about twenty-four miles further up stream. 

 This river is described in section (d) 



A large steam launch could run up as far as Kuala Kahang, 

 the river being wide, deep, and tidal. Beyond this point, however, 

 i:. ::• Gws very considerably owing, in a great measure to the 

 st e ^li] splitting up into a number of small channels ; the chief of 

 these is known as Harus Dras, and forms a loop nearly five miles 

 long. 



At Sungei Selieh the river widens again. The Selieh is a 

 stream flowing from the south; the source is abont two days 

 journey inland. At the Kuala there is a small Jakun village with 

 twenty-five inhabitants ; from here a path leads to Hulu Kahang, 

 one day's journey. 



Beyond Selieh the river becomes very narrow, then sudden- 

 ly opens out into a series of lagoons connected by narrow chan- 

 nels overgrown with " rasau." In the midst of these lagoons 

 rise the two hills '' Parit " and " Jakas," each about 400 feet hig-h. 

 The surrounding country is very swampy. 



