A TRIP TO GtTNONG BLUMUT. 97 



meriting little sand-tlies which tortured us all night, piercing 

 through everything, wrap ourselves up as we might. The 

 Batu Hampar, which gives its name to this place, is a " Kra- 

 mat/ 1 a sacred rock in the river, on which the devout spread 

 the mat of prayer ; it owes its sanctity, according to the 

 legend, to the execution on it by order of the Yam Tuan of Kota 

 Tinggi, of one Jit, Penghulu of the Jakuns, who had been 

 detected in necromantic practices. When they came after 

 the execution with the burial garments to take away the 

 body, it had disappeared. Three months after he was met 

 alive and well on the same spot by his son, and from that 

 period he used to haunt the spot. He is also said to assume 

 at times the form of a white cock ; when met in human 

 form, he disappears, and a white cock is seen vanishing in 

 the distance. Between Selu&ng and Batu Hampar, 

 S.Remuroh, S. Rainun, (tree bearing a sub-acid fruit) S. Solok, 

 (a certain knife), Ave passed S. Gajah (elephant), 

 S. Landak (porcupine', Pokok Mahong, S. Lahan, S. Selasa 

 (a pleasure house), Pasir RAja and Rantau Raja, Malay 

 houses on left at intervals of 7 minutes ; S. Derhaka, and 

 S. Setonggeng both on the left, and Batu Sawa. Of the 

 above places most take, their names from trees or animals, 

 Tasir Rfija (King sand or strand) and Rantau Raja (King 

 Reach) require no further expianation. S. Gemiiroh takes 

 its name from the rushing sound of the stream there ; there 

 is an island of the same name close by. S. Derhaka or S. 

 Anak Derhaka as it is also called, and S. Setonggeng derive 

 their names, according to the Malay legend in this case as 

 in many others, from incidents which it is difficult to de- 

 scribe in seemly language; however Setonggeng (the stooper) 

 was the step-mother of Anak Derhaka (the rebellious son). 

 One day Setonggeng was stooping picking up sticks, and in 

 hitching up her dress she made a gesture which was mis- 

 construed by her son, who thereupon assaulted her in a 

 way which caused her to turn round and give him such a 

 tremendous kick that he was heaved to the spot where flows 

 the stream to which he has given his name, and Setonggeng 

 herself was converted into the stream which bears her name. 

 The two streams are about a quarter of a mile apart. Batu 

 Sawa (fishing-weir rock) marks the spot where, says tradition, 

 Sebadang picked up a rock to make way for his weir. 



We left Kwala Batu Hampar at 9 11 a. m., and in a few 

 minutes passed a river of the same name, and in 10 minutes 

 had passed the clearing on the same side, and found big 



