96 A TRIP TO GUNONG BLUMUT. 



were deposited in tlie Museum. Granite crops up on this 

 mountain, but there were no large boulders visible, the 

 soil appears pretty good, better than what I have seen hither- 

 to excepting that on Panti. My reckoning of the elevation 

 with one aneroid was 1,950 feet, the same as the lower peak 

 of Tulei, while Mr. Hill makes it 2,197 feet, so, as my ane- 

 roid agreed with Mr. Hill as to the height of Panti, 1,650 

 feet South face, I suspect that I did not reach the true sum- 

 mit, though I took a good deal of trouble in trying to do so, 

 and reached the point which was called so, and which I was 

 told was that reached by Maclay a year or two before ; the 

 view inland from this mountain is very fine, liner even than 

 that from Panti. Here as elsewhere when out of reach of 

 water, the traveller can get a cool drink from some of the 

 numerous hanging ropes and supple jacks he comes across 

 along the path ; a section of one of these, three or four feet 

 long, will give half a pint of water, sometimes most deli- 

 cious sweet water, others give a water slightly acrid, 

 but quite drinkable. I give the names of some of these 

 water-giving "okar" as the Malays call them, viz. : sabras, 

 blerang, empelas (the Smpelas hold second place as to water 

 supply), rclang (this gives the most water and lias an edible 

 fruit), jitan (fruit edible), bibat (red fruit not edible, shoots 

 edible, water plentiful), jela (fruit edible), gegrip (edible fruit 

 very pleasant), Iebada (pleasant edible fruit), garok (fruit 

 edible,) kekrang (fruit edible). As far as one could see, there 

 was not much variety in the way of ferns or orchids on this 

 mountain. The master of Sebadang, the Malay champion, was 

 a SSluang man, Sebadang himself being a native of Sarong. 

 After leaving Seiuang at 3.15 p. m. we passed one more 

 Kangka, the furthest up the river. We stopped for the night 

 at a place called Kampong Batu Hampar, consisting of two 

 or three somewhat impoverished looking huts; we were told, 

 however, that there were two or three more further away 

 from the river bank out of sight; they were cultivating 

 sugar-cane, plantains andkledes, also tapioca in a small way. 

 The land this side the river (right bank), consists mainly of 

 pcrmatangs (ridges) ; the hollows between them were just 

 now filled with water, which served to keep away the tigers 

 which usually infest the neighbourhood. We were given a 

 deserted and very much dilapidated shanty to put up in for 

 the night, but with a few additional kajangs from the boat 

 and my waterprof sheet hung up at the side, we contrived 

 to get tolerably sheltered: but we should have cared but 

 little about this if we could have been free from those tor* 



