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on the coast and bore S. W. f W. ; the right tangent of the 

 town of Kwala Lumpor S. W. J S. I saw the glint of the 

 sea, and had it been clear, I could have made out several 

 known points. 



The view was a very fine one; the high mountain range 

 between Selaogor and Pahang to the N. E. with the valley of 

 the Klang at our feet South-westward, was magnificent. 



To the westward there was a higher rocky summit, pro- 

 bably 150 feet higher, distant above 200 yards from this. A 

 better view could be obtained and I intend to use it in the 

 survey. I gave directions to have it cleared and jtvhitened 

 about 12 feet down, the lime can be procured from the Batu 

 caves. Looking down from our post of observation it seemed 

 all plain sailing to reach Sungei Tata, but, we found this the 

 worst part of our journey. We first halted in a gully, 500 feet 

 below the higher station ; and then had a very laborious walk 

 of 2J hours over the spurs of the range, rising and falling 200 

 or 300 feet, reaching Sungei Tata and a little Kampong of 

 some half a dozen small houses and a mining baksal on a 

 small rise above the little stream at 3. 40 p. m. The aneroid 

 gave this as 380 feet above Kwala Lumpor. Here we stopped, 

 and of course, I had a mild chaff with our Menangkabu friends ; 

 they said I was old, but Kuat jala?i. We deferred business 

 discussions until the morrow. We bathed in the stream, then 

 had a medicine meeting ; every one had some real or fancied 

 ailment, and I soon emptied the bottle of chlorodyne in my 

 small medicine chest. I noticed two men whose faces were 

 much swollen, the ears and eyes being nearly closed, yellow- 

 ish pimples on the skin, and the features much distorted. The 

 men were charcoal-burners and stated they had worked at cut- 

 ting down the Rangas trees, the gum or sap falling on them 

 thus affected them ; they said it would go oif in three days ; they 

 did not complain of much pain, but they had a wonderfully 

 bunged-up look. The night was deliciously cool, and not the 

 hum of a mosquito was 1o be heard; sandflies were not. 

 However fatiguing the hill route was, it was better than the 

 lower track, part, of which was in the bed of Sungei Tata and 

 then by the valley of the Klang the track crossing and recross- 

 ing the Klang 13 times, the river swollen and reaching up to 

 the waist, the stream so strong that one had great difficulty in 

 keeping his footing. Near the junction of the Klau«r and 

 Tata, we came on the track to Pahang. About four miles below 

 the Kampong at Sungei Tata we reached a hot spring flowing 



