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put oh. We found the lint much, superior to any we had 

 seen since leaving Seluang in size, construction, accommo- 

 dation and comfort ; it was thatched with a leaf resembling 

 nipah, and the flooring' was a bark one, the best, portion of 

 it being covered with mats, on which we deposited our 

 sleeping-gear. We then went out into the garden in search 

 of ferns, &c, and our curiosity was rewarded by some capital 

 specimens found among the decaying logs which cumbered 

 the ground ; the garden contained some fine tapioca, sugar- 

 cane, plantains, and ldedek ; the Batin kept a few fowls and 

 also a dog, which he used in the chase of the smaller jungle 

 deer. Not long after our arrival a very queer old man came 

 to see us, who , was introduced as the Batin Lama or Dato ; 

 he is the father of the present Batin, who was then 

 away on the Endau. The old man spoke Malay iiuently, 

 but with a peculiar accent, broader than that of the Malays 

 and sounding the final h much more distinctly. I asked him 

 if he remembered Mr. Logan's visit some 80 years before, 

 he said he did, and also that of M. Favre ; on the occasion 

 or the latter lie was living in the Sayon^ where there are 

 two Jakun kampongs, some 30 people in all ; he was des- 

 cribed by M. Favre as an old man of 80, according to which 

 he must have attained the extraordinaiy age of 110, but he 

 is now probably not much over 80, and at the time of M. 

 Favre's visit may have been between 50 and 60, with nearly 

 white hair, looking old for his years ; he probably deceived 

 M. Favre by his ready acquiescence in the idea of his being 

 80 years old ; like most of the natives here he was quite 

 ready to agree to anything which might please his guest, 

 and was quite disposed to say that he was 110. The Batin's 

 hufc lies not far from Bukit Telenteng and Papur, which we 

 were told Mr. Hill ascended in search of plants during the day 

 he was kept waiting while his men were getting ready their 

 '• ambong." Mr. Hill gives the elevation at 1350 feet. 

 The Dato told me there was no hill at the source of the 

 Sayung, aa stated by Favre and Logan, from the other side 

 of which flowed the Benut into the straits of Malacca, he 

 said that the streams flowed in opposite directions from the 

 same swamp, but there must be some fall f the same might 

 perhaps be assumed in the case of the two Semrongs asserted 

 by Logan to be one river joining the Batu Pahat and the 

 Endau farther North, but in 1877 I was assured by 

 Che Miisa of Panchur, wdio had explored the Endau and 

 its branches that this was not so, and that the two 

 Semrongs were separated at the source by rising ground, so 



