ABOUT SLIM AND BEENAM. 



Paet II. 



In the first part of this Paper I have endeavoured to give some 

 idea of the i outh-eastern district of Perak as far as the river Sonar- 

 Jiei, being the most easterly affluent of the Perak. The next river 

 met to the Eaet after leaving the Songkei is the Trcla, which falls 

 into the fclim, which again falls into the Bernam, the next rain-basin 

 South of the Perak river. 



This Sungei Trcla is a considerable stream, which only needs 

 to have the snags removed to make it navigable for boats up to half 

 a kcyan ; at present the smallest canoe cannot get through it. 



Where we crossed it, at a place called Kampong Trola, there 

 is a colony of trading Malays settled, which has been here for the 

 last four or five years ; they came originally to collect gutta and 

 other jungle produce, and liking the look of the place have settled 

 permanently; these men, like most other foreign Malays in the 

 peninsula, come from the Dutch colonies, and whatever else may 

 be said of the Dutch rule in Malay countries, it appears to make 

 traders and colonists of the people under its influence. 



After leaving the Trola about two and a half miles, the path 

 passes through a pass about 400 feet high ; in it I noticed a pecu- 

 liar sort of friable soil, of a bun 2 colour, which, when pressed in the 

 hand, crumbled down into flakes about the tenth of an inch thick. 

 The name of this pass is Gapis. 



A few miles beyond Gapis the path passes some hot springs, 

 the geological formation of which puzzled me a good deal, as in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the springs the rock was evidently stra- 

 tified, although apparently metamorphosed to a great extent, and con- 



