A TRIP TO GUNONG BLUMUT. 109 



Mount Ophir as Ave had hoped to do. Immediately North 

 of us lay Chimundong, a fine mountain, with two peaks some 

 little way -apart, little if at all inferior in elevation to Blu- 

 mut; their bases touch. N. W. some 15 to 20 miles away, 

 rose Gimong Janing in Pahang territory. Directly South stand 

 the twin peaks of Bechuak, while S.S.E of her run the parallel 

 ridges of Peseliingan (the old boundary; and Peainjaii. Some- 

 what hazy in the distance lay Gimong Puiei, about S. S. E. 

 Further to the East, about E. S. E., we noted Panti and Men- 

 tchak with Sembclayaiig between them, and Bukit or Pcn- 

 ali Panjang (long ridge), Bukit *Bulang (moon hill), and 

 Bukit Tambun Tulang (bone-heap hill) in the fore ground. 

 East of North numbers of smaller hills could be seen, and 

 nearer East still other heights of ^considerable elevation 

 could be dimly descried in the distance ; no one could 

 identify these, but I suspect them to have been Pulau 

 Tioman and Pulau Aor. The greater part of the country 

 from S. to W., as far as we could see, appeared to be an 

 unbroken level of jungle, but the rest is a fine country 

 abounding in hills of all heights up to 3,000 feet, With 

 numerous streams following into the Johor, Endau and 

 Scdili. The soil runs through all the changes, from black 

 mould to red clay and sand. We got down from the top 

 to our hut in time to collect a few plants from the rocky 

 stream close to it. 



Next day, 3rd Feby., on reaching the Singgong stream, 

 I collected a few pebbles of quartz, iron-tinted sand- stone, 

 and various forms of granite ; I also found a lump of Avhat I 

 take to be a form of specular iron ore affected by water ; the 

 sand in the stream contains small laminate prisms of mica. 

 At Batu Setinggong, in the Hulu Lcnggiu, Ave collected the 

 ferns' t and mineral specimens already described and reached the 

 Ayer Putih (noted for its black mud), somewhat to our sur- 

 prise, about 3.30 p. m. 



Left next day about 8 a. m., (after a row between two of 

 our men, which was nipped in the bud at the first blow,) 

 and reached our resting place of the first day at 10 a. m., 

 where Ave found the fever-stricken man and his friend, Avho 

 had been left behind at Batu Setinggong, had made them- 

 selves a very snug corner in the hut. After collecting to- 

 gether here Ave set off again ; and Avhen we got to the lower 

 ground, Avhich had all been under water before and given 

 us so much trouble, Ave found the Avater had entirely dis- 

 appeared $ so our progress Avas much quicker, and we 



