THE EXJUU A.THJ ITS TRIBUTARIES, Oo 



nity of rescuing from oblivion a good deal of interesting informa- 

 tion about his branch of the Jakun tribe. I may take this opportu- 

 nity of correcting an erroneous statement I made in my account of 

 a trip to Blumut,( 1 ) that Gunong Janing was in Pahang territory ; 

 it lies in Jchor territory on the right bank of the Upper Endau. 



As the Malays required a day or two to prepare a good-sized 

 jcdor for the ascent of the Sembrong, I occupied the 18th with 

 a visit to a hill called Tanah Abang.( 2 ) a mile or two below the 

 station, with the object of getting compass-bearings from the top. 

 The first part of the way took us through alternate hillocks and 

 hollows of a black springy soil. This turned out, however, to be the 

 wrong path, and we wentlDack up the river a bit, and landed this 

 time on the right track, coming, shortly after landing, upon old 

 tin-workings, but I could detect no trace of tin in the granite and 

 sand : there were a few plantain trees — relics of human cultiva- 

 tion ; a little further off there were, T was told, other tin- workings, 

 which had been undertaken by a Singapore man, and were satis- 

 factory, but had to be abandoned for want of funds. We found 

 here a very pretty small plant with white-striped leaves growing 

 by the roots of a tree ; it is edible, having a pleasant acid flavour 

 like the sorrel leaf, and is used by the natives with the areca nut 

 when they cannot get the betel leaf; it is called daun cMru. Wo 

 reached the top of the hill in an hour or so, but I was obliged to 

 give up the idea of taking bearings, the hill being very steep, and 

 its sides being covered with big trees near enough the summit to 

 block up the view in all directions in spite of several of the smaller 

 ones being cut down. 



One of our party said that he knew of a spot which had been 

 mentioned by some orang Jndu, i.e., Jakuns, where they had lit 

 a fire on a hill-side in the jungle to cook their food, using some 

 black rocks, which they found there, to support their rice-pot, and 

 the man added that, after their meal, they noticed that some of the 

 rock had melted and was trickling down in a dark shining stream. 



The next day, accordingly, I got my informant to shew me the 

 spot, which proved to be on the side of Biikit Langkap, a short way 



C 1 ) Journal of the Straits Branch of the Boval Asiatic Society, 

 Xo. 3, July, 1879. 



( a ) ''Tanah Abang," red earth. 



