THE ENDAU AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. 



BY 



D. F. A. HEBVEY. 



[The valuable geographical knowledge obtained by Mr. IIeryey 



in this journey is shewn in the trace of the Endau River and its 

 tributaries as laid down in the new map of the Malay Peninsula 

 published last year under the auspices of this Society. — Editor. 

 1st January, 1882.~] 



^ r *£Q?~S August, 1879, being obliged to seek relaxation from 

 work, I determined to try and clear up the point sug- 

 gested by Logan's account of the two rivers Sem- 

 brong, ( x ) which he supposed to be one and the same 

 stream connecting the Endau, and the Batu Fahat( 2 ) — 

 flowing respectively into the China Sea and into the 

 Malacca Straits — and thus giving a navigable passage between 

 the two seas. I had also in view the object of collecting such rem- 

 nants as might still be obtainable of the JaJcun dialects of Johor, 

 more particularly that of a small tribe on the Madek, one of the 

 tributaries of the Endau, which I had been assured by the Dato' 

 of the Lenggiu( 3 ) Jalnins (on my trip to Blumut, early in 1879) 

 differed from that of all the other Jakun tribes in Johor. 



( x )See p.p. 101 and 10)3, Journal of the Straits Branch of the 

 Eoyal Asiatic Society, No. 3, July, 1879. 



( 2 ) " Batu Pahat," the hewn rock. A chisel and other instruments 

 are said to have been found by some Malays digging in the neigh- 

 bourhood many years ago. This particular chiselling has been 

 attributed to the Siamese. There is also a tradition that it was 

 here the Portuguese got their stone for the Malacca Fort, but I 

 believe it was obtained much nearer M alacca. 



( 3 ) I could not obtain any clue to the origin of this name from 

 either Malays or Jalcinis ; but it may be well to draw attention to 

 the Siamese word" Khlang Kiau," which is asserted in the "Scjarah 

 Malay u " to have been the origin of the name of a portion of the 

 Johor country. I believe there is a place in Pahang bearing a very 

 similar, if not identically the same, name. 



