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with fever on the way, was now too bad to go any further. Our 

 men now began, with greater energy than they had yet 

 shewn in anything, some to make a clearing, others to cut 

 down trees for their bark, and saplings for poles, and in 

 about an hour we had a capital shanty two or three feet oif 

 the ground with a kajang roof (for we had brought two ka- 

 jangs with i\s J and bark flooring (the bark of the meranti tree). 

 This first day's work had completely destroyed my canvas 

 shoes, and having only one other pair (fortunately leather 

 however), with five or six days' tramping before me, I contem- 

 plated the future with some misgiving. After the persever- 

 ing tittacks of sand-flies had been dispelled by the smoke of 

 a fire lit close to our lint, we at last got to sleep amid the 

 croaks, cries, shrieks, and hootings of a host of frogs, insects, 

 and birds. The stream below us was a tributary of the Penis, 

 which we had crossed earlier in the day. 



Xext day (31st) we made a start about 8 a. m. including 

 the invalid of yesterday, whom I had dosed three times with 

 quinine; this drug and sal volatile, which I had with others 

 in a little case, was in great request among our men. At 10 

 a. m. we reached HilTs first resting-place, Ayer 1'utih, 

 (white water), so called apparently on the J ileus a non 

 lucendo principle. Yesterday the soil was muddy or sandy, 

 now it was darker, a: id the swamps through which we 

 passed between the higher levels of our course rejoiced in a 

 deep brown mud, in which we sank now and then to over the 

 knee. The rattan thorns were a constant annoyance, and 

 the path even our Malays lost sometimes, but the Jakuns 

 seemed never at fault and sped along', though somewhat 

 more heavily burdened than the others, with astonishing 

 rapidity. In the way of flora we observe:! some fine ferns 

 and lycopodiums, and a variety of plants and creepers with 

 beautifully marked leaves. About 3.30 p. m. we heard the 

 sound of rushing water and shortly after reached the banks 

 of a most delightful mountain torrent tearing down amongst 

 granite boulders of all sizes and shapes ; this we were told 

 Avas Bulu Lenggiu, or the source of the Lmggin River, and on 

 this spot was Batu Sctinggan (the squatters' stone) or Batu 

 Berkachaug, to which a legend is attached that it was the 

 first couch of the parents of the human race ; the details of 

 the legend cannot be stated here, so I simply follow the ac- 

 count of it given by Logan, who here first came upon the 

 Lunggm on his return from the trip up Endau as already 

 referred to. Another of our party being down with fever, 



