CAVES AT SUNGEX BATU IN SELANGOE. 

 By D. D. Daly. 



{Read at a Meeting of the Society, held on 1th April, 1879. 



A most interesting and important discovery of caves in 

 the Native State of Selangor (near Kwala Lumpor) was made a 

 few days ago by Mr. Syers, Superintendent of Police in that 

 State. Whilst on a hunting excursion in search of elephants 

 and other game, in company with an American naturalist, and 

 wearily plodding their way through a dense tropical jungle, 

 Mr. Syers was suddenly assailed by an unusual perfume, and 

 on asking the Sakeis ( wild men ) who accompanied him and 

 who were tracking an elephant, he was told that it arose from 

 a large deposit of bat's manure in some caves hard by. 

 Mr. Syers entered these caves, and a party having been made 

 up to explore them, the following account by one of the ex- 

 plorers may not be uninteresting : — 



" The party consisted of Capt. B. Douglas, II. B. M.'s 

 Resident of Selangor, Lieut. B. Lindsellof H. M.'s 28th Regt., 

 Mr. Syers, Supt. of Police, the writer, some Orang Sakei, and 

 some police. 



" Leaving Klang at 8 a. m. in the steam-tender " Abdul 

 Samat" and following up the Klang river a distance of 17 

 miles, the rising township of Damausara was reached at 10 

 a. m., thence a good road for 13 miles on ponies, and four 

 miles through jungle, brought the party to the great tin-mining 

 centre at Kwala Lumpor. 



" From Kwala Lumpor to the caves, along a jungle track, 

 all over very good soil, chocolate-coloured loam, and passing 

 through groves of numerous fruit trees, a ride of about, nine 

 miles in a northerly direction brought us to the foot of a lime 

 stone hill, about 400 feet high, with steep perpendicular sides. 

 The white clefts of the hill glistened in the sunlight and at once 

 indicated limestone formation. Durian trees <jrow at, the base of 

 this hill and threw their lofty branches, laden with fruit at 

 this season. Halfway up the hill, and through the rich-soiled flat 



