100 A TRIP TO GUNOHG BLUMtfT. 



Tuesday, 28th. — To-day was simply a repetition of yesterday, 

 saving for the increase of snags and fallen timber. Afc 12.43 

 we passed on our right Sempang Mahaligei ( palace ) 

 where nsed to be the Royal fishing box. 12.46, huts to the 

 left, 1.25, S. AyeS Putin on right. At 1.30 saw a beautiful 

 musang in a trap up in a tree, trap consisted of two or three 

 sticks fastened from bough to bough the intervals being fill- 

 ed with thorny rattan leaves ; he was struggling desperately 

 for his freedom, but apparently in vain, when just as one of 

 our men had climbed nearly up to him, by a frantic effort 

 he got loose, and was out of sight in a moment. Afc 1.38 

 passed Lubok Bilik on our left, said to be a " Kramat," but 

 we got no details. At 1.57 we had Sungei Tengkelah on 

 our left, and at 2.8 Sungei Tempinis : Sungei or Tcngkalan 

 Tengkelah is the place where Logan re-embarked for Singa- 

 pore on his return from his trip in 1847 up the Endau river 

 and through the interior of Johor. Its name derives from 

 a fish, and in former days it was one of the retreats of Roy-^ 

 alty. 2.10, Jakun hut in clearing on the right, and again at 

 2.39. At 5.26 p. m. we reached the limited Kampong of 

 Kclcsa Baniak, occupied by both Malays and Jakuns ; there 

 were three hats on the bank, the huts Were very low on high 

 piles, two of them were thatched with daun payong, or 

 umbrella leaf, which added much to their picturesque ap- 

 pearance. The better part of the day had been wet, and we 

 were still forced to have our " kajang" up, and, as before, 

 we dined and slept on board our jalor. We were not allow- 

 ed to continue our wanderings on shore before dinner, our 

 men assuring us that at dusk in that neighbourhood we 

 were not at all unlikely to meet a roaming tiger. This place 

 is named from a fish, Kelesa, which is said to abound here 

 and is described as having upper part dark green, belly 

 white, and large scales. The river had, we were told, been 

 much higher a few days before, about 12 feet, as we judged, 

 above its present level. Next day (29th) we took on a 

 Malay and two Jakuns, more poling and a great deal of 

 cutting work, the stream narrowed so much that there was 

 but just room for the jalor to pass. We saw more hill coffee 

 shrubs with good-sized berries on the banks of the river as 

 we passed. A little before 4 p. m. we got into the Teba 

 river, leaving the Lenggiu on our left; a little way up the 

 Teba, we found ourselves at the Pcngkalan, the residence of 

 the Penghulu or Batin of the Jakuns ; as we neared his hut, 

 some women and squalling children scrambled away, apparent- 

 ly alarmed at the sudden invasion of the strange orang 



