A TRIP TO GUNONG BLUMUT. 



By D. F. A. Hervey. 

 Read at a Meeting of the Society held on the 13th October, 1879. 



Having previously visited Gunong Pulei fin 1876) Gunong 

 Panti and Gunong Mentahak (in 1877), and having on the 

 two latter trips heard a good deal of Gunong Blumut as a 

 mountain far superior in magnitude and height, distant a long 

 way inland, at least 7 days journey, to which seemed attach- 

 ed a good deal of superstitous veneration, I had long been 

 desirous of making an attempt to reach this latter moun- 

 tain ; and Mr. Hullett ("Principal of Baffles' Institute) , who 

 had also made trips to the other mountains above mentioned, 

 being ready to join me, I obtained a month's leave, and on 

 the 21st January we started on our expedition in a steam 

 launch very kindly lent us for the purpose by Captain Bur- 

 rows. 



We left Singapore at 8.15 a. m. just as it was begin- 

 ning to clear after a continuous rainfall of two days and 

 reached Pulau Tekong at 10.45 a. m. Here we stopped for 

 water and got under way again at 11.55. The rain which 

 now began again continued to fall steadily till we reached 

 Panchur some 18 miles up the Johor river, at 2.45 p. m. 

 Up to this point our course had been pretty well N.N.W., 

 but above Panchur the river takes a due northerly direction. 

 Below Panchur the Channel is on the east side, extensive 

 shallows and sand-banks prevailing to the west. At this 

 place we landed, and found it in charge of Che Masim, who 

 succeeded Che Musa, (a most agreeable and obliging man, 

 who accompanied me on my trip to Gunong Mentahak at the 

 end of 1877, and who had, I was sorry to hear, succumbed 

 a few months before to fever [caught on an expedition into 

 the interior.) Che Masim was very # civil, but we were told 

 on all sides that in the present swollen condition of the ri- 

 ver it was hopeless to think of reaching Blumut. Having 

 got our luggage on shore and despatched the launch back to 



